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MEDIA


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Your news intake
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•Are you interested in domestic and/or international news?
•What are your most frequent sources?
•How do you decide whether you can trust a source?
•Do you double-check any information? How?
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World Press Freedom Index
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World Press Freedom Index
•Reporters Without Borders (RWB) is an international non-profit organisation which defends the
right of every human being to have access to free and reliable information.
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•The purpose of the World Press Freedom Index is to compare the level of press freedom enjoyed by
journalists and media in 180 countries and territories. This comparison is based on a definition of
press freedom formulated by RSF and its panel experts:
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Press Freedom (RSF):
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•“the ability of journalists … to select, produce, and disseminate news in the public interest
independent of political, economic, legal, and social interference and in the absence of threats to
their physical and mental safety.”

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Press Freedom Map
•https://rsf.org/en/index
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•The situation is:
•green – good
•yellow – satisfactory
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•dark red – very serious

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Evaluation criteria
•political context (political pressure)
•legal framework (censorship,impunity)
•economic context (difficulty of creating a news media outlet, restrictions on advertisement)
•sociocultural context (pressure to cover certain topics)
•safety (bodily harm, emotional, also confiscation of equipment)
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•More on methodology: https://rsf.org/en/index-methodologie-2022?year=2022&data_type=general

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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
•RFE/RL‘s mission is to promote democratic values by providing accurate, uncensored news and open
debate in countries where a free press is threatened and disinformation is pervasive.
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•RFE/RL is funded by a grant from the U.S. Congress.
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•An essential guarantee of the journalistic credibility of RFE/RL is the “firewall” enshrined in
the U.S. International Broadcasting Act. The firewall prohibits interference by U.S. government
officials, including USAGM’s Chief Executive Officer, in the objective, independent reporting of
news by RFE/RL, thereby safeguarding the ability of its journalists to develop content that
reflects the highest professional standards of journalism.
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•https://www.rferl.org/

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Daily brief on the war in Ukraine
•https://www.understandingwar.org/
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•The Institute for the Study of War advances an informed understanding of military affairs through
reliable research, trusted analysis, and innovative education. We are committed to improving the
nation’s ability to execute military operations and respond to emerging threats in order to achieve
U.S. strategic objectives. ISW is a non-partisan, non-profit, public policy research organization.
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Our guest
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•Vojtěch Boháč – journalist, editor-in-chief, and co-founder of the online magazine VOXPOT

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Reflection
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•How do you deal with negative news such as reports from a war zone? How do you protect yourself
from getting overwhelmed?

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Reflection
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•Why do you think it is important for independent media and independent news coverage to exist?
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•Why do you think it is important to follow independent media?