Re-Conceptualizing Journalistic Safety in Bangladesh: Analysing Multidimensional Threats and Adaptive Strategies

Its three aims reflect the complexity and seriousness of the threats journalists face. The first is to identify and classify the main political, digital, and socio-cultural threats that Bangladeshi journalists encounter regularly. The research aims to provide a disaggregated portrait of these threats by type, frequency, and severity through a quantitative survey of journalists based on geography and news organizations. Second, it examines how such threats combine with different kinds of organizational support and policy barriers to influence journalists’ safety perceptions. Understanding this interaction between the demands placed on journalists by the institutions they work for and journalists' responses to those demands is critical to developing a comprehensive view of how institutions can bolster the resilience of journalism . Lastly, the research seeks to create an updated conceptual model of journalistic safety that includes individual-level adaptation and institutional action, serving as guideposts for a more effective policy and professional approach.