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Myers, Mary, Scott, Martin 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6744-443X, Bunce, Mel, Yassin, Lina, Fernandez, Maria Carmen (Ica) and Khan, Rachel
(2022)
Reset Required? Evaluating the Media Freedom Coalition after its first two years.
The Foreign Policy Centre.
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Abstract
The purpose of this report is to evaluate the Media Freedom Coalition (MFC) in its first two years of operation, from 2019 to 2021. The MFC is a partnership of 50 countries working together to advocate for media freedom and the safety of journalists. Our independent report is based on over 100 interviews with relevant stakeholders; analyses of news coverage, social media commentary and public statements; and a survey of media freedom campaigners – as well as detailed case studies in Sudan and the Philippines. We find that, after two years, the Media Freedom Coalition is only partially achieving its objectives. It has taken some positive steps towards its ambitious goals including attracting a relatively large membership and establishing collegiate ways of working. However, partly because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the actions of the MFC have not been as rapid, bold, or visible as was initially promised. So far, its working methods have been slow and lacking transparency, its communications poor, its financial commitments small, and its political impacts have been minimal. Overall, the MFC requires a re-set and re-injection of energy and funds in the next two to three years if it is to achieve its original aims.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development) |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Cultural Politics, Communications & Media Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > The State, Governance and Conflict |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 05 May 2022 07:08 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Jul 2022 00:02 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/84863 |
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