Media Trends Databank

Expanding our ability to understand challenges facing the media sector and freedom of expression is a vital step towards better policies. The Media Trends Databank lists all the 160+ data sources used for the World Trends Report - an open resource for all seeking to better understand key trends in media development and freedom of expression. 

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Facebook Ad Library
This data platform enables transparency about advertisers by allowing users to access information about any ad running on Facebook, as well as on its apps, including Instagram. Users can search ads by...
Mobile cellular subscription
This dataset indicates the number of mobile cellular subscriptions per year. Mobile cellular telephone subscriptions are subscriptions to a public mobile telephone service that provide access to the P...
The Mobile Economy
The GSMA Mobile Economy series provides the latest insights on the state of the mobile industry worldwide. These reports contain a range of technology, socio-economic and financial datasets, including...
Information Requests
The report covers latest data about government and law enforcement information requests for Twitter and Periscope account information from around the world. These requests include a combination of rou...
UNESCO observatory of killed journalists
The UNESCO platform provides data on journalists killed since 1993, including their name, nationality, and gender. The judicial inquiry status of the case, country in which the journalist was killed, ...
Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI)
The Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) project reports aggregate and individual governance indicators for over 200 countries and territories for six dimensions of governance: Voice and Accountabili...
Journalism and the Pandemic Survey
This project documents the impacts of COVID-19 on journalists across the world and aims to identify the challenges faced during the pandemic while offering evidence-based recommendations to mitigate i...
State of Technology in Global Newsrooms Survey
The report offers information on how the digital revolution (e.g. social media usage and fact-checking tools) impacts information attainment and dissemination, and the consequences of this on the work...
RTDNA/Newhouse School at Syracuse University Survey
This database offers information on TV and Radio salaries across the United States by breaking these down by positions. The 2020 Survey was conducted among 1,762 operating, non-satellite television st...
Hate on Display database
This resource provides an overview of the symbols most frequently used by a variety of white supremacist groups and movements around the world, as well as other hate groups. It was developed to inform...
The World Factbook
The World Factbook offers data on a variety of topics, including history, government, economy, communications, the environment and transnational issues across the globe. Through the CIA search platfor...
ACLED Curated Data on Disorder Involving Journalists and Media Workers
ACLED is an event-based data project designed for disaggregated conflict analysis and crisis mapping. Data are updated weekly and can be downloaded using a customised tool. ACLED offers information on...
WJP Rule of Law Index
The index is a leading source for original, independent data on the rule of law. Covering 139 countries and jurisdictions, the index relies on national surveys on more than 138,000 households and to 4...
Gender Development Index (GDI) & Gender Inequality Index (GII)
The two indices measure disparities and inequality between men and women in human development by analysing three basic dimensions: health, knowledge and living standards, as well as four key aspects o...
Edelman Trust Barometer
The barometer offers annual global reports on the data gathered through surveys conducted in nearly 30 countries. The surveys include questions on the population's trust in media (including search eng...
The Inclusive Internet Index
The index seeks to measure the extent to which the internet is not only accessible and affordable, but also relevant to all, allowing usage that enables positive social and economic outcomes. It asses...
Media Use in the Middle East
The results for Media Use in the Middle East, 2019 by Northwestern University in Qatar are based on over 7 thousand face-to-face and telephone interviews across seven countries, conducted under the di...
V- Dem Data Set
The V-Dem project includes the world's most comprehensive democracy ratings. V-Dem has developed innovative methods for aggregating expert judgments in a way that produces valid and reliable estimates...
Journalist Impact Survey
The Journalist Impact Survey is designed by Media Defence to understand the quality of their legal and financial support to journalists, in addition to gaining a greater appreciation of the role of le...
Understanding the Value in Media: Perspectives from Consumers and Industry
The report offers the findings on how different stakeholders in media (e.g. content creators, advertisers, marketing agencies and individual consumers) value media content, especifically across six ke...
Digital news purchases worldwide 2021
The database, available in Statista, provides information on the share of consumers who paid for online news content in selected countries in 2021. Through the data, Statista aims to understand if con...
Paid content in media - statistics & facts
The proliferation of online news outlets has led to the transformation of the media industry. The database, available in Statista, offers in-depth information on the reality of paid media (digital and...
Faces of Free Expression
The Faces of Free Expression campaign aims at sharing the stories of change-makers. The platform allows users to search for the stories of people who work to promote and defend freedom of expression a...
The economic impact of disruptions to Internet connectivity 2016
The report offers an in-depth look into the impacts of internet shortages around the world as well as website shutdowns by national governments. It aims to highlight these disruptions' widespread impa...
Regulatory issues in matters of freedom of expression and the internet in Latin America 2010-2020
This research offers information on regulatory tendencies in legislative and jurisprudential matters in Latin America, it focuses on a series of direct or indirect forms of censorship. The research wa...
CIVICUS Monitor
The CIVICUS Monitor is a research tool that provides close to real-time data on the state of civil society and civic freedoms in 196 countries. The data inform a country’s civic space rating as open, ...
The Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)
The index examines the level of multidimensional poverty across 109 countries while also presenting an ethnicity/race/caste disaggregation for 41 countries. The measured dimensions of poverty include ...
Media violations
MISA's Media violations platform compiles news regarding physical attacks, harassment and threats against journalists, as well as imprisonements and censorship methods to silence them in 8 African cou...
Content Restrictions Based on Local Law
When something on Facebook or Instagram is reported to them as violating local law, but doesn't go against their Community Standards, they may restrict the content's availability in the country or reg...
Internet disruptions
Internet disruptions are intentional restrictions on connectivity that limit people's ability to access the internet or specific websites and apps. Disruptions prevent people from sharing and communic...
Fall 2017 Media and Politics in Western Europe Survey
This Pew Research Center survey covers eight Western European countries: Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom. It covers topics such as views of the news media, ...
Google Transparency Report: Government requests to remove content
Courts and government agencies around the world regularly submit requests to remove information from Google products for a number of reasons. Government bodies may claim that content violates a local ...
Countries with FOI (freedom of information) regimes
freedominfo.org is a portal that describes best practices, consolidates lessons learned, explains campaign strategies and tactics, and links the efforts of freedom of information advocates around the ...
Member States that are Party to the UN Convention against Corruption
The "United Nations Convention against Corruption" was adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 31 October 2003 at United Nations Headquarters in New York. It was open to all States fo...
MediaLaws Database
The MediaLaws Database hosts the International Press Institute’s (IPI) work on legal reform. The use of laws related to defamation, official secrets, anti-terrorism and cybercrime, among others, beyon...
The Country Legal Frameworks Resource
This data source comprehends a detailed set of resources examining governments’ legal authorities to intercept communications, obtain access to communications data, or restrict the content of communic...
The Global Democracy Index
The Global Democracy Index is based on 60 indicators grouped in five different categories, measuring pluralism, civil liberties, and political culture. In addition to a numeric score and a ranking, th...
The Internet Observatory
This database detects internet disruptions, online censorship, and cyber-attacks on critical infrastructure in the defense of human rights. The database is updated in real-time and provide country-lev...
World Development Report 2021
The World Bank’s World Development Report, published annually since 1978, is an invaluable guide to the economic, social, and environmental state of the world today. Each report provides in-depth anal...
Online violence against women journalists: a global snapshot of incidence and impacts
This UNESCO report shares data on cases of online violence against women reporters across the world and the impacts of these attacks on women's physical, mental and digital safety. The data was gather...
The Global Media Intelligence Report
The Global Media Intelligence Report represents a compilation of data and insights about internet users’ traditional and digital media usage in 43 key markets worldwide. The report is a continued part...
OpenAFRICA
OpenAFRICA is a volunteer-driven hub for data collection covering a variety of subjects pertinent to the African continent. By using the platform's search engine, users can find data on media-related ...
GenderGap.AFRICA
Gender gaps affect society as a whole and have severe social and economic consequences. The platform allows users to identify pay gaps between men and women in Africa.The tool uses Estimated Earned In...
Casualties Database and Killing the Messenger Report
The platform offers data on journalists, citizen journalists and media staff casualties as a result of their job. By separating the globe into regions, the platform offers publications on each known d...
Media Freedom Navigator
The Media Freedom Navigator provides an overview of different media freedom indices. The platform allows users to navigate through different the different indices in different regions of the world and...
The effect of COVID-19 on journalists' mental health
The study conducted by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and the University of Toronto include survey questions about journalists work, mental health and concerns during the first mont...
Latam Chequea: Coronavirus
The database compiles data from several fact-checking agencies in Latin America that classify COVID-19 news as false, true or somewhere in between (e.g. misleading, inaccurate, etc.). News about the m...
Affordability Drivers Index
The high cost of an internet connection is keeping billions around the world from coming online. This index provides scores on internet affordability in 77 countries. The platform enables the user to ...
QoG (Quality of Government) Data
The Quality of Government Expert Survey (QoG Expert Survey) is a research project aimed at documenting the organizational design of public bureaucracies and bureaucratic behavior in countries around t...
Government Requests for User Data
Meta responds to government requests for data in accordance with applicable law and their terms of service. Each request they receive is carefully reviewed for legal sufficiency and they may reject or...
Gender Statistics Database > Public broadcasters: presidents and members of the board/council (highest decision-making body)
The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) Gender Statistics Database contains data on the numbers of women and men in key decision-making positions across a number of different life domains. D...
European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) Gender Statistics Database
The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) Gender Statistics Database contains data on the numbers of women and men in key decision-making positions across a number of different life domains. D...
GIP Digital Watch Observatory
The GIP Digital Watch Observatory features more than thousand resources related to over 50 digital policy and internet governance issues. Resources include: convention and laws; policy instruments; bo...
Global Fact-Checking Sites
The fact-checking database tracks several hundred non-partisan organisations around the world. These projects regularly publish articles, videos or audio reports that: 1) verify the accuracy of claims...
Global Disinformation Index (GDI)
The GDI provides disinformation risk ratings for news sites in media markets around the globe. The risk ratings are neutral, independent and transparent. The ratings are done at the site level. The in...
The Bertelsmann Stiftung's Transformation Index (BTI)
The Bertelsmann Stiftung’s Transformation Index (BTI) analyses and evaluates whether and how developing countries and countries in transition are steering social change toward democracy and a market e...
Coronavirus Misinformation Tracking Center
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread across the globe, so does disinformation and misinformation about the disease. Websites on the list include publishers notorious for publishing false healt...
Digital Society Project (DSP)
The Digital Society Project (DSP) was founded in 2018 with the goal of analysing the complex effects of internet and social media on the different layers of society. Created using the award-winning V-...
Hatebase
Hatebase is a service built to help organisations and online communities detect, monitor and analyse hate speech. Their algorithms analyse public conversations using a broad vocabulary based on nation...
Navigating the infodemic
The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, collected survey data in 2020 to document and understand how people in six countries (Argentina, Germany, South Korea, Spain, the UK, and the US) acc...
Open Data Barometer
The barometer provides a global measure of how 30 governments are publishing and using open data for accountability, innovation, and social impact. The barometer ranks countries based on criteria such...
Removal Requests
Removal requests refers to data about third-party legal demands (i.e. court orders and other formal requests from governments and legal entities) that compel Twitter to remove content under their "Cou...
Worlds of Journalism Study (WJS)
The database provides data on a survey with over 27,500 journalists based on a common methodological framework. The study’s questionnaire elicited views of journalists on several issues journalists an...
Measuring the prevalence of online violence against women
The interactive infographic created by the EIU provides data on the global prevalence of online violence against women. The data comes from a survey fielded in 51 countries with high usage of the inte...
Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP)
The Global Media Monitoring Project is the largest and longest longitudinal study on the gender in the world’s media. The GMMP collects data over 5-year periods since 1995, and their research has take...
Disease control? Mapping media freedom during the coronavirus crisis
The platform provides a map that reports the detention or arrest of journalists and physical attacks in the context of the coronavirus pandemic. It also covers the introduction of new legislation or c...
ONI Filtering Data
The OpenNet Initiative aims to offer data on internet censorship by analysing a diverse set of indicators of internet censorship (e.g. political, social, conflict) in 74 countries across the world. Th...
Worldwide Digital Ad Spending
This report features forecasts for overall ad spending, digital ad spending, display ad spending, search ad spending, and mobile ad spending worldwide. It also features country and company breakdowns ...
Data Protection and Privacy Legislation Worldwide
The dataset and platform show information on whether or not a given country has adopted cyberlaw legislations or has a draft law pending adoption, while also indicating the corresponding law for each ...
Global Gender Gap Report
Since 2006, the Global Gender Gap Report assesses gender gaps by industry and economy, while also tracking progress in closing the gaps. Some of the indicators measured in this report are: salaries, s...
Global Peace Index
The Global Peace Index (GPI) ranks 163 independent states and territories according to their level of peacefulness. It is the world’s leading measure of global peacefulness and offers comprehensive da...
Trust in Media
This report outlines European citizens' trust towards several types of media through opinion surveys from the Eurobarometer and the Net Trust Index. The aim of the report is to enable media organisati...
Global Expression Report
This report covers expression’s many faces: street protest, social media posts, right to information, right to express political dissent, organise, offend, or make jokes. It also looks at the right to...
Datos comparados [Comparative data]
The database offers a collection of election-related statistics and data covering more than 200 nations and 11 different topics. It offers information on Electoral Systems, Parties and Candidates, as ...
Press Councils
Accountable Journalism's mission is to monitor media ethics across the globe. Their website contains a list of press councils in every region of the world, which are defined as organisations that gath...
HRMI Rights Tracker
The Rights Tracker systematically tracks the human rights performance of countries across the globe. Users can also research human rights performance for specific groups at risk of violation, such as ...
Hoaxy
Hoaxy helps visualise the spread of claims and related fact-checking online, while also monitoring fact-checking sources to assess their level of credibility. A claim may be a false news article, hoax...
UN - Hate Speech Case Database
This database includes a compilation of case law of the European Court of Human Rights on Hate Speech. It divides the cases thematically (ethnic hatred, violence, LGBTQ, religious hatred, totalitarian...
Attacks and Harassment: The Impact on Female Journalists and Their Reporting
This report, co-authored with TrollBusters, provides a clear examination of the professional dangers of being a female journalist in the news media today. Against a global backdrop that has changed si...
Media Viability Trends
This dataset, comissioned by UNESCO, has been collected across a variety of sources and in consultation with experts. EIU consulted a long list of contacts in order to identify and access data. The in...
Freedom in the World
Freedom House rates people’s access to political rights and civil liberties in 210 countries and territories through its annual Freedom in the World report. For each country and territory, Freedom in ...
Gallup World Poll
The Gallup World Poll tracks important issues worldwide, such as food access, business and economics, education, employment, health, migration, well-being and press freedom. Since creating the World P...
Gender Equality and Media (Analytical Report)
This report is based on the answers to a questionnaire addressed in 2019 to Council of Europe’s Member States, media organisations, media regulators and media self-regulatory bodies, to assess progres...
Gender Statistics Database > Media regulatory authorities: board/council presidents and members
The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) Gender Statistics Database contains data on the numbers of women and men in key decision-making positions across a number of different life domains. D...
The Right to Information (RTI) Rating
The global RTI Rating measures the strength of the legal framework for the right to access information held by public authorities (the right to information or RTI) based on 61 discrete indicators — ea...
Google Transparency Report: Global requests for user information
A variety of laws allow government agencies around the world to request user information for civil, administrative, criminal, and national security purposes. In this report, Google shares information ...
Google Transparency Report: Traffic and disruptions to Google
We log the number of visits to every Google product, along with an approximation of the geographic region where the visit originated. A visible decrease in traffic in a specific region may mean that u...
Individuals using the internet
This ITU indicator can include both: estimates and survey data corresponding to the percentage of individuals using the internet in a country, based on results from national households surveys. The nu...
Internet Shutdowns
Internet is a key enabler of many fundamental rights, including freedom of speech and expression. This project tracks incidents of internet shutdowns across India in an attempt to draw attention to th...
The Media Pluralism Monitor (MPM)
The Media Pluralism Monitor (MPM) is a tool developed by the EUI Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom to assess the risks for media pluralism in 32 European countries. The tool has been implem...
On <the> line DB
This platform displays data collected from social media to report virtual violence and harassment against journalists. Data is available for Austria and Turkey on 3 different types of violence: abusiv...
Status of the transition to digital terrestial television
This portal provides information on the status of the deployment of Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT), worldwide. The database includes countries' status, year of switch off and transition, type of...
The CoronaVirusFacts Alliance Database
Led by the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) at the Poynter Institute, the CoronaVirusFacts database gathers all of the falsehoods that have been detected in more than 70 countries and publis...
Violations of press freedom barometer
The platform provides data on journalists killed per name and country. Data is available on the number of journalists, citizen journalists, and media assistants killed and imprisoned at the moment.
World Press Freedom Index
The WPF index calculated the degree of freedom available to journalists in 180 countries by pooling the responses of experts to a questionnaire devised by RSF targeted to media profesionals, lawyers a...
World Risk Poll
The World Risk Polls covers the perceptions on the biggest risks faced globally, including new findings on subjects such as risks faced by women; safety of food; experience of serious injury and viole...
CrowdTangle
CrowdTangle is a public insights tool that helps publishers, journalists, researchers, fact-checkers and more to follow, analize and report on what's happening across social media, by tracking engagem...
Digital: Global Overview Report
The Global Overview Reports and the country editions are designed to help people and organisations find the data, insights, and trends needed for informed decision making. The reports provide infograp...
Afrobarometer
Afrobarometer is non-partisan, pan-African research institution conducting public attitude surveys on democracy, governance, the economy and society in 30+ countries repeated on a regular cycle. The s...
FOI Laws
The platform compiles laws related to freedom and access to information in African countries. The laws are available to download as a PDF.
Open Government Database
The OGD database constains data on how OGP members perform in 14 areas of open government, such as anti-corruption, civic space, and fiscal openness. The data covers more than 50 indicators from 10 da...
Lumen database
Lumen gathers and analyses content-removal requests sent to internet publishers, search engines, and service providers. The database's purpose is to promote transparency on who sends and receives thes...
Factiva
Factiva's platform offers global media insights into diverse market sectors across the world. It aims to contribute to companies' media strategies, tracking and management by providing data on positiv...
U.S. Press Freedom Tracker
The U.S Press Freedom Tracker offers information on press freedom violations across the country and aims to provide reliable and easy-to-access data on the number and types of attacks suffered by jour...
Global Report on the Status of Women in the News Media
The flagship IWMD report offers data on women's participation in news-making operations, decision-making hierarchy and ownership structure of media companies across the world. It aims to promote women...
The GEM dataset
The GEM dataset project seeks to examine the qualities, causes and consequences of gender (in)equality in and through the news media. The project includes a Cross-Sectional and a Time-Series dataset, ...
Benchmarking Diversity and Inclusion in Media and Entertainment: The Audience Representation Index
The World Economic Forum’s Power of Media Initiative developed an Audience Representation Index, providing a benchmark for how well consumers see themselves represented in film and TV, gaming, news an...
SADC Gender Barometer Data Portal > Media, Information and Communication
The platform allows researchers to visualise the percentage of women involved in the media, communication and information sectors in southern Africa. The data is divided by country and can be accessed...
Fake news worldwide - statistics & facts
The risk of encountering disinformation across digital and legacy media is ever more common. Through this database, Statista provides key information on press freedom and news consumption, trust in me...
Concentración mediática [Media concentration]
The report provides insights on how information sharing through media is concentrated in the hands of specific companies in Latin America. The study offers data on media legislation in each Latin Amer...
Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IAAG)
The IAAG measures and monitors governance performance in African countries. Governance is measured across four key components: Security and Rule of Law; Participation, Rights and Inclusion; Foundation...
Disinformation Tracker
Powered by data and insights from local partners in Sub-Saharan Afrtica, this tool tracks laws, policies and other government actions on disinformation across the region. The interactive map allows us...
All Datasets: Media Intelligence Survey
The Media Intelligence datasets offers a complete and up-to-date picture of public service media (PSM) performance across Europe, using data provided by more than 60 broadcasting organisations. This u...
Human Development Index (HDI)
The HDI was created to emphasise that people and their capabilities should be the ultimate criteria for assessing the development of a country, not economic growth alone. The index ranks countries on ...
Vibrant Information Barometer (VIBE)
The Vibrant Information Barometer is an annual study and monitor that tracks how information is produced, spread, consumed, and used. VIBE includes four principles of information vibrancy: Information...
Justitia Free Speech Index
The Justitia Free Speech Index measures the support for free speech in 33 countries around the world. It is a composite measure based on answers to eight questions about the willingness to allow contr...
Global Entertainment & Media Outlook
This PwC resource provides five-year projections of consumer and advertiser spending data across 14 segments and 53 territories. Moreover, it offers an insight into the evolution of the media and ente...
Media Development Indicators (MDI)
The Media Development Indicators were developed through a broad international consultation launched by the IPDC Intergovernmental Council at its 25th session in 2006. A detailed mapping of the main ex...
Shutdown Tracker Optimization Project (STOP)
Access Now’s Shutdown Tracker Optimization Project (STOP), in collaboration with the #KeepItOn coalition — representing 258 organisations from 106 countries — has documented internet shutdowns since 2...
Global Attitudes & Trends
The Pew Global Attitudes Project is a series of worldwide public opinion surveys originally conceived with two primary objectives: to gauge attitudes in every region toward globalization; trade and an...
UNESCO Survey on Public Access to Information (SDG Indicator 16.10.2)
In line with its role as the UN custodian agency for Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Indicator 16.10.2 (which looks at “the number of countries that have adopted and implemented constitutional, st...
Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index (RDR Index)
The 2020 RDR Index evaluates 26 of the world’s most powerful digital platforms and telecommunications companies on their disclosed policies and practices affecting people’s rights to freedom of expres...
Corruption Perceptions Index
The CPI scores and ranks countries/territories based on how corrupt a country’s public sector is perceived to be by experts and business executives. It is a composite index, a combination of 13 survey...
Covid19 Infodemics Observatory
The Covid is an interactive dashboard where we present estimates of how much a country is potentially exposed to misinformation or disinformation about COVID-19, by estimating the Infodemic Risk Index...
IPI COVID-19 Press Freedom Tracker
Amid the spread of COVID-19, the free flow of news and information is more essential than ever. IPI‘s COVID-19 Tracker monitors attacks on journalists and the press worldwide linked to the pandemic. I...
CYRILLA
CYRILLA is an open database of digital rights law from around the world. The multilingual database is developed and maintained by the CYRILLA Collaborative, a global initiative that seeks to map and a...
CPJ Journalists Killed
CPJ has detailed records on journalist fatalities since 1992. Staff members independently investigate and verify the circumstances behind each death. CPJ considers a case “confirmed” as work-related o...
CPJ Journalists Imprisoned
CPJ’s annual census is a snapshot of those incarcerated at midnight on December 1 each year. It does not include the many journalists imprisoned and released throughout the year. Journalists who eithe...
CPJ Missing Journalists
CPJ maintains a list of journalists who have disappeared while doing their work. Although many of them are feared dead, if no body has been found, CPJ generally does not classify them as “Killed.” In ...
IPI Death Watch
IPI’s Death Watch lists journalists and media staff whose deaths have been linked to journalism. The Death Watch includes names of journalists who were deliberately targeted because of their professio...
Digital News Report
The Digital News Report, published annually since 2012, aims to understand how news is being consumed in a range of countries and to cast light on the key issues that face the media industry at a time...
Community Standards Enforcement Report
In attempt to protect their users safety, privacy, dignity and authenticity, Facebook created the Facebook Community Standards and Instagram Community Guidelines, which define what is and is not allow...
Intellectual Property
Meta's IP protection measures begin with their Terms of Service and our Community Standards, which prohibit people from posting content that infringes others' IP rights. Similar provisions are include...
Global Innovation Index (GGI)
The Global Innovation Index (GII) is an evolving project that builds on its previous editions while incorporating newly available data inspired by the latest research on the measurement of innovation....
IAB Advertising Spend and Revenue Research
Revenue and spend reports from IAB are provide data insights into the health of the digital advertising ecosystem, for instance, by analising how ad investments, planning, strategies, and tactics shif...
Latinobarometro
Latinobarómetro is an annual public opinion survey that involves some 20,000 interviews in 18 Latin American countries, representing more than 600 million inhabitants. Some of the most relevant sectio...
OONI Explorer
OONI Explorer is an open data resource on internet censorship around the world. It covers blocking of websites and Apps, network performance, media censorships. This dataset also had a special session...
Platform to promote the protection of journalism and safety of journalists
The Platform reports on serious threats to the safety of journalists and media freedom in Europe. Contributing partner organisations –invited international NGOs and associations of journalists– issue ...
Special Eurobarometer: Democracy and Elections
This dataset provides European citizens opinions and concerns about fear of disinformation in social media during elections. According to a Special Eurobarometer on democracy and elections, almost thr...
The right to blasphemy, caricatures, freedom of expression: Are the French still "Charlie"?
The survey was conducted among a sample of 1,020 people, representative of the French population living in metropolitan France aged 15 and over, and a sample of 515 people, representative of the Musli...
Global and Regional ICT Data
The ITU's dataset provides data on access and usage of the internet and mobile phones by region, sex, and urban area.
Violencia de género en contra de las mujeres periodistas en Colombia
The report provides data on gender-based violence against female journalists in Colombia. The data comes from a web survey made in 2020 with 75 participants. Some of the variables included are the per...
World Press Trends
The World Press Trends survey includes data from more than 70 countries. The data is compiled through dozens of national newspaper and news media associations, as well as support from global data supp...
World Values Survey
The World Values Survey is a global network of social scientists studying changing values and their impact on social and political life. The 7th wave of the WVS monitors cultural values, attitudes and...
Mapping Media Freedom
Mapping Media Freedom is a crowd-sourced platform that enables anyone to upload an alert that relates to threats against journalists and media workers throughout all EU member states, candidate countr...
Mapping media freedom - Corona Watch
The global coronavirus pandemic means that journalists and media workers now face extra restrictions when trying to do their jobs. The database is a crowd-sourced platform that enables anyone to uploa...
Dart Research Database
A regularly updated database of research articles from disciplines including communication, psychology, public policy and media criticism related to journalism and trauma. The database is targeted to ...
Data protection around the world
The dataset and interactive map allow users to visualise which countries adopt data protection regulations or possess Data Protection Authorities while also offering information on the levels of data ...
The African Media Barometer (AMB)
The African Media Barometer (AMB) is a perception index. It provides a comprehensive description and measurement system for national media environments in Africa. The AMB methodology consists of an as...
Media Landscapes
Media Landscapes offers the summaries and expert analyses of the state of media in European countries as well as in neighbouring States. The database includes press freedom rankings, internet penetrat...
Law Enforcement Requests Report
The platform covers law enforcement requests for Microsoft's customer's data across all regions of the world. Reports on this data is published twice a year and are based on legitimate demands through...
Threatened Voices
The platform was created as a collaborative mapping project to build a database of bloggers who have been threatened, arrested or killed for speaking out online. It was created to draw attention to su...
The Pandemic Backsliding Project (PanDem)
The PanDem repository tracks state responses to the COVID-19 pandemic by addressing how these decisions affect short- and long-term prospects for democracy, while also reporting each type of violation...
AmericasBarometer
The Americas Barometer Insight Series contains short analyses of policy-relevant data gathered by the Americas Barometer through surveys carried out in Latin America. The studies on the biweekly repor...
Freedom on the Net
The annual survey conducted by Freedom House offers an analysis of internet freedom around the world. The Freedom on the Net reports produced by the organisation feature an in-depth descriptive text a...
Observatorio Regional: Legislación en Libertad de Expresión en América Latina
The observatory monitors legislative developments over time regarging freedom of expression in Latin America. It aims to facilitate the public's access to laws and bills that affect freedom of express...
Ads for News
Ads for News has the purpose of enabling brands to advertise with trusted, local news media.The platform provides users with a range of local news websites where brands can safely advertise their prod...
ESOC COVID-19 Misinformation Dataset
The database collected stories on misinformation efforts on social media and news outlets with sources, keywords, and direct links. The resulting report examines the COVID-related misinformation, disi...
YouTube-8M Dataset
The YouTube-8M Dataset contains data on YouTube videos, classifying them under 3400 segments/topics of content, such as Video games, Social media, News program, etc. The dataset was created by Google ...
Monitor de Libertad de Expresión y de Acceso a la Información [Monitor of Freedom of Expression and Access to Information]
The platform provides data on the number of journalists murdered, kidnapped, arrested, tortured and attacked in Latin America. The platform also compiles data on cases of banned access to information,...