Jeannine RellyThe University of Arizona | UA · School of Journalism and School of Government and Public Policy with courtesy
Jeannine Relly
Doctor of Philosophy
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August 2009 - July 2015
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Publications (38)
Violence against journalists has emerged as a global human rights issue as the number of those killed in the profession has steadily risen in the new millennium. This research utilized a collective action framework, applying an adapted qualitative network model to examine organizational mobilization, transnational and domestic engagement, normative...
The COVID-19 pandemic, global economic downturn, anti-press violence and worsening situation of labour precarity for journalists around the world have led to increased stress, trauma and burnout in the profession, which raises questions at the heart of media sustainability and approaches to media development in a global context. Our study builds on...
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which is regarded as China’s new silk road, has attracted worldwide attention since it was proposed by China’s President Xi Jinping in 2013. News framing of the BRI in the United States and India plays a significant role in shaping people’ s understanding and attitudes toward China. The economic aspect of the...
This research studied the dynamics of online and offline activism among networks of organizations and social activists across India involved in the globally recognized Right to Information movement. Our overarching research question examined how a network of organizations and activists grew global, national, and local collective action strength, ou...
Whistleblowing is recognized as an effective means to mitigate organizational corruption. However, there is little empirical research that broadens our understanding of organizational strategies that enhance perceived organizational protection for whistleblowers. We aim to fill this gap in the literature by empirically examining a multi-pronged app...
This research analyzes the process and culture of right-to-information agenda building among non-state actors – journalists, social activists, and civil society organizations in India. The research, which began at the 10-year anniversary of the Indian Right to Information Act, includes in-depth semi-structured interviews with study participants (N...
This exploratory study introduces a human security framework to examine the challenges that journalists face from daily professional and societal constraints and pressures when attempting to fulfill their role to inform the public in areas of conflict. The research focuses on the influences on Palestinian journalists in one of the most challenging...
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Direct knowledge of corrupt activity negatively and significantly influenced satisfaction with democracy among Mexican citizens.
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Direct knowledge of a corrupt act negatively and significantly influenced confidence in democratic institutions and local government.
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Right-leaning political ideology had a significantly positive influen...
This chapter focuses on anti-press violence, legal institutions, the role of historical and cultural context with impunity, and research focused on the concept of social change. The literature on anti-press violence is explored as is the critical relationship of anti-press violence with factors such as political development, economic constraints an...
This qualitative study of influences on a purposive sample of Afghan journalists was carried out in the year after the US military mission was declared over. After more than a hundred million dollars of Western government funding had been invested in development of liberal democratic journalism, the study found the paradox of news media ‘capture’....
The news media and public interest groups pushed hard for the passage of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in 1966. Since then, however, a majority of FOIA requests have been filed by business representatives or their lawyers, a phenomenon also observed in other countries that have adopted similar legislation. Although myriad policy networks he...
In Latin America in the twenty-first century, journalists face daily professional and societal constraints and pressures when attempting to fulfill their role to inform the public. Concerns include a lack of press freedom, robust and growing social movements critical of the news media, and personal security on and offline. In this article, the auth...
Twenty years after a foreign intervention in Iraqi Kurdistan during Saddam Hussein’s authoritarian rule, this study found that Kurdish journalists’ professional role perceptions appear, to an extent, to reflect liberal democratic news media values. The study used the hierarchy-of-influences framework to examine determinants of professional role per...
Gatekeeping theory and the hierarchy of influences model were used as a framework to analyze democratic norm development in Iraq. The study developed three watchdog gatekeeping models that could be adapted for other conflict or postdictatorship environments or modified for longtime democracies. The study used hierarchical regression to analyze forc...
During the years of Ba’athist dictator Saddam Hussein, media personnel were under tight control and tortured or executed when they strayed from the government line. In the decade following the fall of the Ba’athist regime, thousands of Iraqi journalists were trained in liberal democratic professional norms and hundreds of news outlets opened even a...
Mexico is one of the most dangerous places in the world for journalists, as more than 100 journalists have been murdered between 2000 and 2014, with almost half of those killed in the country's northern states. Through an analysis of in-depth interviews with journalists in northern Mexico, this qualitative study examines the relationship between an...
Mexico ranks as one of the most violent countries in the world for journalists, and especially for those who work on the country's periphery such as its northern border. Given the dire situation for Mexican reporters covering the northern part of the country, and the continued responsibility of U.S. journalists to report on the area just south of t...
During President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa's administration, the military was called on to confront organized crime, and dozens of journalists were killed in Mexico. Attacks on journalists have continued under the new administration. This study focuses on the erosion of the democratic institution of the press in Mexico's northern states, for the maj...
India's Right to Information Act (RTIA) has been described as one of the strongest laws in the world for access to public information. The preamble spells out its promise to expose government corruption. Given that the Indian news media is the largest in the world and has a storied history of unearthing public corruption, this exploratory study emp...
This exploratory study applied Everett Rogers’s diffusion framework to the global phenomenon of countries adopting freedom of information laws. The external influence of geographic proximity and the internal influence of news media were examined over time. The models indicated that a strong environment for news media had a significant influence on...
Government corruption and secrecy are not new phenomena in Africa; however, international scrutiny has grown as nations end decades of conflict and seek to develop, donor nations consider providing more aid, and investors and transnational corporations look to the area for oil and other resources. Given that corrupt government activities account fo...
This chapter examines institutions of information access and the potential for information asymmetry in China and India, both of which have recently adopted access-to-information regulations and legislation, respectively. An examination of these two countries largely is a study of most-different cases. The chapter uses the framework of institutiona...
As more and more countries adopt access-to-information (ATI) laws to advance economic development and democratic self-governance, efforts are under way to foster ATI movements in the Arab world. While one nation in that region already has adopted the legislation, the likelihood of adoption in other Arab states is unknown. This comparative study ana...
This study examines a number of measurements of e-government, political openness, and level of development in developing nations
with and without access-to-information laws (N = 150). With nearly every e-government measurement and both political openness measurements, developing nations with access-to-information
laws had, on average, the stronges...
In July 2006, President George W. Bush vetoed a bill—the first during his administration of five years—that would have ended federal government restrictions placed on scientists with federal funding in the area of human em-bryonic stem cell research. In an administration policy statement, the president criticized the congressional bill as a "use of...
In the past two decades, governments from around the world have adopted access-to-information laws at a rate unlike any other time in history. This reform in government information policy parallels a global movement of intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations, which have pressed countries to advance the norm of transparency. Competition...
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Research to be conducted throughout the country over four months.
Electoral democracies experiencing extreme levels of non-combat violence and economic inequality have received increasing scholarly attention, but the empirical, theoretical and methodological aspects of this emerging research focus continue to need clarity. What does the coexistence of democracy and insecurity of many kinds mean for journalists? How important are societal violence and economic insecurity in relation to other challenges facing journalists? What roles do journalists and news media play in fomenting or restraining physical and economic insecurity? We begin a scholarly exchange to address these questions. Answers are particularly critical in Latin America and the Caribbean, where violence against journalists and levels of inequality can be extreme, but journalists in the global north increasingly face physical safety and economic challenges as well. The group also wishes to share information and exchange perspectives with those working in Africa, Asia and elsewhere as we collectively explore and seek answers to what has become a global concern.
