Journalists are supposed to balance government surveillance with their own, but the power balance is against them, Anthony Mills and Katharine Sarikakis, both of University of Vienna, write. The authors interviewed 42 journalists, 8 media experts and one whistleblower from around the world over their experiences and thoughts on state-sanctioned surveillance of journalists. The surveillance … Continued

Afghan journalism is “captured”, or forced to work for non-journalistic interests, by a number of methods and actors, write Jeannine E. Relly and Margaret Zanger, both of University of Arizona. The authors base their conclusions on the interviews of 30 Afghan journalists in Kabul. Most notably, Afghan journalists face violence and threats thereof from nearly … Continued