Media Watch and Journalism Rights Organisations as Advocates of Press Freedom in Post-Soviet Central Asia

  • Richard Shafer
  • Eric Freedman

Abstract

In the bleak press rights territory of post-Soviet Central Asia, domestic and international nong-overnmental organisations, foreign governments, news outlets, and multinational entities such as the Organization for Cooperation and Security in Europe (OSCE) and UNESCO monitor constraints on the press. They also protest censorship and decry journalists‘arrests, prosecutions, harassment, and murders.

Author Biography

Richard Shafer

Eric Freedman is Associate Professor of Journalism and Associate Dean of International Studies & Programs at Michigan State University, U.S. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and a former Fulbright senior scholar at World Languages University in Uzbekistan. Professor Freedman’s research interests include press systems, journalism education, and professional journalism practices in the former Soviet republics of Central Asia and international journalism education and training.

Published
2019-01-17
How to Cite
Shafer, R., & Freedman, E. (2019). Media Watch and Journalism Rights Organisations as Advocates of Press Freedom in Post-Soviet Central Asia. The Journal of Development Communication, 23(1), 56-75. Retrieved from https://jdc.journals.unisel.edu.my/index.php/jdc/article/view/129
Issue
Vol 23 No 1 (2012): The Journal of Development Communication
Section
Articles
  • Open Access authors retain the copyrights of their papers, and all open access articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited.
  • The use of general descriptive names, trade names, trademarks, and so forth in this publication, even if not specifically identified, does not imply that these names are not protected by the relevant laws and regulations.
  • While the advice and information in this journal are believed to be true and accurate on the date of its going to press, neither the authors, the editors, nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made.The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein.