ABSTRACT

The present study is an attempt to examine how objective structural political forces and subjective perception of political influences determine journalists’ autonomy and safety. The evidence is based on responses representing journalists from 65 countries, which adds to the cross-cultural robustness of the results that inform theory and that bear significant implications for efforts of journalists’ protection. The results reveal a strong positive correlation between press freedom and democracy in one hand and editorial autonomy and safety of journalists on the other. The results also show a strong negative correlation between journalists’ perception of political influences and editorial autonomy and safety. The correlation between journalists’ autonomy and safety was not as strong as expected.

摘要

本研究试图检验客观的结构性政治力量和对政治影响的主观感知如何决定记者的自主权和安全性。证据基于来自 65 个国家/地区的记者的回应，这增加了结果的跨文化稳健性，为理论提供依据，并对记者保护工作产生重大影响。结果显示，一方面新闻自由和民主与编辑自主权和记者安全之间存在很强的正相关关系。结果还表明，记者对政治影响的感知与编辑自主权和安全性之间存在很强的负相关关系。记者的自主权与安全之间的相关性并不像预期的那么强。