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Re-Conceptualizing Safety of Journalists in Bangladesh

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  • Mubashar Hasan

    (Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo, Norway)

  • Mushfique Wadud

    (Reynolds School of Journalism, University of Nevada, USA)

Abstract

Journalists are currently facing a multitude of threats. Commonly, these are considered in terms of harassment and bodily harms such as incarceration and murder of journalists. In the Bangladeshi case we argue that the parameters for evaluating what constitutes safety for journalists go beyond conventional wisdom. On the basis of in-depth interviews of 23 Bangladeshi journalists, we argue that the concept of journalists’ safety has three intertwined dimensions. First, journalists’ safety incorporates avoiding bodily harm (imprisonment, enforced disappearance, and so forth), and harassment, as well as economic and career threats. Second, in order to remain safe, journalists undertake various tactics including compromising the objectivity of news in a regime where security apparatus and pro-government journalists work in tandem to surveil and intimidate non-partisan journalists. Third, the tactics used by journalists decrease public faith in the media and the media can no longer play a watchdog role. We argue that one needs to reconceptualize the safety of journalists within these three intertwined dimensions.

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  • Mubashar Hasan & Mushfique Wadud, 2020. "Re-Conceptualizing Safety of Journalists in Bangladesh," Media and Communication, Cogitatio Press, vol. 8(1), pages 27-36.
    • Handle: RePEc:cog:meanco:v:8:y:2020:i:1:p:27-36
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    1. Kristin Skare Orgeret & William Tayeebwa, 2020. "Introduction: Rethinking Safety of Journalists," Media and Communication, Cogitatio Press, vol. 8(1), pages 1-4.

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