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Freedom of the Press 2008
A Global Survey of Media Independence- Authors:
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- 2009
Summary
Freedom House's annual press freedom index, now covering 195 countries and territories, has tracked trends in media freedom worldwide since 1980. Featuring an overview of the state of press freedom from senior researcher and editor Karin Deutsch Karlekar, Freedom of the Press 2008 provides comparative rankings and examines the legal environment for the media, political pressures that influence reporting, and economic factors that affect access to information. The survey is the most authoritative assessment of media freedom around the world. Its findings are widely utilized by policymakers, scholars, press freedom advocates, journalists, and international institutions.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2009
- ISBN-Print
- 978-0-7425-6309-4
- ISBN-Online
- 978-0-7425-6629-3
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 370
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- Table of Contents No access
- Acknowledgments No access
- The Survey Team No access
- Survey Methodology No access
- Press Freedom in 2007: A Year of Global Decline No access Pages 1 - 16
- Global and Regional Tables No access Pages 17 - 24
- Country Reports and Ratings No access Pages 25 - 366
- Freedom House Board of Trustees No access Pages 367 - 367
- About Freedom House No access Pages 368 - 370





