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Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2018

This study explores the ways news is being consumed in a range of countries. This year's report focuses on the issues of trust and misinformation, media literacy, new online business models, the impact of changing Facebook algorithms and the rise of new platforms and messaging apps

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Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2019

The report aims at understanding how news is being consumed across the world. This year’s focus is on people’s trust in media and their willingness to pay for news, private messaging applications and groups, misinformation, and habits of younger people

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Turkey: A Prison for Journalists

11/12/2016

In 2016, Turkey became the world's leading jailer of journalists, imprisoning at least 81 reporters, editors, and producers, a record number.

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Turkey: the legality of post-coup actions and the use of Bylock App as evidence in trials

An opinion on the legality of the Turkish state's reactions following the 2016 attempted coup and of the controversial use of certain facts as evidences of support or membership to a terrorist organization

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CPJ database on jailed journalists

Since 2000, CPJ compiles detailed records on journalists being held in custody by government authorities across the world

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Record number of jailed journalists in 2017

According to the 2017 prison census of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), 262 journalists are behind bars around the world in relation to their job. Turkey remains the world’s worst jailer for the second consecutive year, with 73 journalists imprisoned, followed by China and Egypt

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Journalists Imprisoned in 2018

14/12/2018

An infographic by the Committee to Protect Journalists

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Expression Interrupted

Expression Interrupted is a website dedicated to tracking the legal process against journalists and academics in Turkey

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Demonising the media: Threats to journalists in Europe

The report surveys over 3,000 media freedom incidents documented by Index on Censorship’s “Mapping Media Freedom” (MMF) project since May 2014 with a view to outlining key trends and categories

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Köksal v. Turkey: Excessive Formalism or Strict Adherence to Admissibility Criteria?

Recently the European Court of Human Rights declared thousands of cases from Turkey inadmissible for failure to exhaust newly-available domestic remedies. The authors look at the context and content of the inadmissibility decision

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