Front-line reports and analytical essays by CPJ experts cover an array of topics of critical importance to journalists. Governments store transactional data and the content of journalists’ communications. Media and money engage in a tug of war, with media owners reluctant to draw China’s disfavor and advertisers able to wield surprising clout. In Syria, journalists are determined to distribute the news amid the chaos of conflict. In Vietnam, the government makes a heavy-handed bid to bring the Internet under control. And globally, eliminating witnesses has become an all too easy method of stymying justice when journalists are assassinated.

Africa

(Reuters/Goran Tomasevic)


Analysis
The printed word is thriving in parts of Africa, but advertisers’ clout means they can often quietly control what is published.
 
Analysis
After a decade of unprecedented growth and development, the insistence on positive news remains a significant threat to press freedom in sub-Saharan Africa.

Analysis
How robust are the institutional safeguards that underpin Nelson Mandela’s vision of a strong and independent South African media?


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Burundi

5 Years in jail
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Ethiopia

70 News and opinion websites blocked

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Guinea

51 Anti-press attacks
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Gambia

144 Hours of detention
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Nigeria

11th Impunity Index ranking

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Somalia

2nd Impunity ranking
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Swaziland

2 Broadcasting bills passed
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Tanzania

22 Threats and attacks

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Uganda

7 Days police ignored court order
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Zambia

7 Cases against the press
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Zimbabwe

186 Radios confiscated

Country reports in this chapter were written and researched by CPJ Program Coordinator Sue Valentine, CPJ Advocacy Coordinator Mohamed Keita, CPJ’s Nairobi-based consultant Tom Rhodes, and CPJ’s West Africa consultant Peter Nkanga.


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