REVIEW: Timely strategic research spotlights killings of journalists

David Robie

doi:10.24135/pjr.v23i1.323

David Robie Pacific Media Centre - AUT http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2176-8185

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v23i1.323

Keywords: investigative journalism, peace journalism, research, UNESCO, war correspondence, war journalism, World Press Freedom Day

Abstract

The Assault on Journalism: Building Knowledge to Protect Freedom of Expression, edited by Ulla Carlsson and Reeta Pöyhtäri. Gothenburg, Sweden: Nordic Information Centre for Media and Communication Research (Nordicom). 2017. 363 pages. ISBN 9789187957505

THE GHANAIAN investigative journalist summed up the mood among some 1500 media people with the beaded face veil rather well—a facial security screen symbolising both the safety of the reporter and his sources. But this was no empty gesture. It is characteristic of Anas Aremeyaw Anas who has captured judges on tape allegedly taking bribes. As the result of his celebrated documentary, Ghana in the Eyes of God: Epic of Injustice, more than 30 judges and 170 judicial officers were implicated in Ghana’s biggest corruption scandal.

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Author Biography

David Robie, Pacific Media Centre - AUT

Editor of Pacific Journalism Review and Professor of Communication Studies and Journalism

School of Communication Studies

Auckland University of Technology

References

Anas, A.A. (2015). Ghana in the Eyes of God: Epic of Injustice [Video documentary].
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZKL2EvPU0c

Conroy, P. (2013). Under the wire: Marie Colvin’s final assignment. New York: Weinstein Books.