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What is Media Freedom

Handbook of Research on Combating Threats to Media Freedom and Journalist Safety
Is the freedom for news organisations and journalists to report without subjective oppression and restrictions, including holding government accountable to its responsibility to the people and vice versa.
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Threats to Media Freedom and the Safety of Journalists in Nigeria
Umaru A. Pate (Bayero University Kano, Nigeria) and Sharafa Dauda (Department of Mass Communication, University of Maiduguri, Nigeria)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1298-2.ch013
Abstract
This chapter interrogates long-established and wide-sprung threats to media freedom and journalists' safety in Nigeria. The study used semi-structured interviews to explore field and newsroom experiences. The findings revealed the types of threats to media freedom and journalists' safety, non-existing safety frameworks, mitigation and protection measures, and recommendations on how to protect media organisations and journalists from threats. Consequently, the participants clamoured for constitutional provisions to protect journalists from threats; enforcement of existing and additional constitutional provisions and laws to deter violations against media freedom; establishing and empowering institutions to certify journalists; instituting policies for routine editorial staff training on conflict, safety, and sensitive reporting; and reviewing the NUJ Constitution to address contemporary media and journalism practices and issues, among others.
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