{"id":3561,"date":"2018-05-04T09:34:33","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T09:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=3561"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:49:09","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:49:09","slug":"world-press-freedom-day-is-celebrated-annually-on-the-3rd-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2018\/05\/04\/world-press-freedom-day-is-celebrated-annually-on-the-3rd-may\/","title":{"rendered":"World Press Freedom day is celebrated annually on the 3rd May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2018 is the 25<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary and the focus is upon the rule of law. Find out more about the events on the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.unesco.org\/commemorations\/worldpressfreedomday\/2018\">UNESCO official website.\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>These include a book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unesco.org\/new\/en\/communication-and-information\/resources\/publications-and-communication-materials\/publications\/full-list\/press-freedom-safety-of-journalists-and-impunity\/\">on press freedom and the safety of journalists<\/a> and other resolutions, papers and<a href=\"https:\/\/en.unesco.org\/themes\/press-freedom-all-platforms\"> resources.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/events\/pressfreedomday\/resources.shtml\">The United nations website<\/a> has links to related resolutions, reports and committee websites.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why is this day important?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Find out which country has the <a href=\"https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/ranking\">most free press according to the annual barometer complied by RSF.<\/a>\u00a0 The methodology used is displayed on the website.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/rsf-index-2018-hatred-journalism-threatens-democracies\">According to the analyses \u2018hatred of journalists is growing and is threatening democracy\u2019<\/a>.\u00a0 The UK is now ranked 40 out of 180 on the hatred of journalists index.<\/p>\n<p>An Alternative <a href=\"https:\/\/freedomhouse.org\/report\/freedom-press\/freedom-press-2017\">freedom of the Press ranking is compiled annually by Freedom House<\/a>.\u00a0 In 2017 it declared that press freedom had declined to its lowest level for 13 years.<\/p>\n<p>Other well known indexes are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irex.org\/resource\/media-sustainability-index-msi\">IREX&#8217;s Media Sustainability Index (MSI)<\/a> which provides in-depth analyses of the conditions for independent media in 80 countries across the world.\u00a0 It specialises in conditions for change in transition developing nations.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.unesco.org\/programme\/ipdc\/initiatives\/mdis\">Media development Indicators &#8211; UNESCO<\/a>\u00a0 priority areas of the International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) are: promotion of freedom of expression and media pluralism, development of community media and human resource development (capacity building of media professionals and institutional capacity building).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fesmedia-africa.org\/home\/what-we-do\/africa-media-barometer-amb\/\">The African Media Barometer<\/a> was \u00a0developed by Fesmedia Africa, the Media Project of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) in Africa, and the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.misa.org\/\"> Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA)<\/a> in 2004.\u00a0 Every two to three years a panel of 10 to 12 local experts, consisting of at least five media practitioners and media experts and five representatives from civil society, meet to assess the media situation in their own country.\u00a0 A report is then compiled\u00a0 by expert panellists based on 39 criteria.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rcmediafreedom.eu\/\">European Centre for Press and Media Freedom has a resource section on its website<\/a> with useful research reports and papers on trends in media pluralism and threats to media freedom in the region.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2018 is the 25th anniversary and the focus is upon the rule of law. Find out more about the events on the UNESCO official website.\u00a0\u00a0These include a book on press freedom and the safety of journalists and other resolutions, papers and resources. The United nations website has links to related resolutions, reports and committee websites. 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