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The other air force: U.S. efforts to reshape Middle Eastern media since 9/11 (2016)
Transformations in Egyptian journalism (2013)
Development efforts to promote investigative reporting: a preliminary assessment of centers in Azerbaijan, Jordan, Bangladesh, and Bosnia (2014)
Évaluation de l’appui aux médias en période électorale en Afrique subsaharienne. Synthèse du rapport (2013)
"All successful democracies need freedom of speech": American efforts to create a vibrant free press in Iraq and Afghanistan (2005)

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The economic contribution of copyright-based industries in Colombia

Alberto Castañeda Cordy; Rafael Cubillos López; Armando Sarmiento López; Jaime Vallecilla Gordillo

Geneva: World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) (2008), 87 pp., 46 tables, bibliogr. p.86-87

ISBN 978-92-805-1908-2

"The total value added of the copyright-based industries in Colombia reached Col$9.5 millions of millions in 2005 (approximately 4,800 million US dollars) from Col$5.7 millions of millions in 2000. As a percentage of GDP, the CBI represented an average of 3.3 per cent throughout the period. In real ... more

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El observador de medios de comunicación en América Latina: prensa, ciudadanía y democracia en Brasil, Colombia, Ecuador, Perú y Venezuela

Eduardo Zukernik (ed.)

Buenos Aires: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2008), 192 pp., many tables

ISBN 978-987-1285-13-6

"Los enfoques de agenda setting, de network society y de public sphere constituyen el marco teórico básico para el abordaje metodológico y posterior desarrollo de “El Observador de Medios de Comunicación en América Latina” que presentamos. El Observador analiza la agenda de los principales ... more

Versión beta: tendencias de la prensa y el periodismo del siglo XXI en Venezuela

Carlos Delgado Flores

Caracas: Libros de El Nacional; Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (2008), 214 pp., diagr., bibliogr. p.208-214

ISBN 978-980-244-555-4

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The price of silence: the growing threat of soft censorship in Latin America

Buenos Aires; New York: Asociación por los Derechos Civiles (ADC); Open Society Institute (2008), 179 pp.

ISBN 978-1-891385-83-4

Other Editions: also published in Spanish

"The Price of Silence exposes a growing trend across several countries in Latin America: behind-the-scenes government interference with media freedom and editorial independence. This “soft censorship” and its pervasive chilling effects have not received the attention they deserve. By conducting ... more

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Corruption and development aid: confronting the challenges

Georg Cremer

Boulder, Colorado; Freiburg: Rienner; Lambertus (2008), xiv, 169 pp., bibliogr. p.141-158, index

ISBN 978-1-68585-426-3 (online); 978-1-58826-571-5 (pbk)

Other Editions: German ed.: Korruption begrenzen. 2nd ed. Freiburg: Lambertus, 2008; 1st. ed. 2000

"Although corruption has always been a quietly recognized aspect of development aid programs, the taboo against openly discussing it is only now being widely overcome. Georg Cremer systematically addresses the subject, exploring the nature and impact of corruption, the conditions under which it is m... more

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Sin rastro, imágenes para construir memoria

Bogotá: Fundación Dos Mundos; Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) (2008), 125 pp., many illustr.

ISBN 978-958-98773-1-9

"Este libro es una selección de imágenes del Concurso Nacional de Fotografía sobre Desaparición Forzada 'Sin Rastro." (p.1)

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50 preguntas y respuestas sobre infoética: según los últimos documentos de la Iglesia sobre las comunicaciones sociales

Madrid: Secretariado de la Comisión Episcopal de Medios de Comunicación Social Conferencia Episcopal Española (2008), 39 pp.

" ... el Secretariado de la Comisión Episcopal de Medios de Comunicación de la Conferencia Episcopal Española ha elaborado, con la importante colaboración del profesor Jesús Manuel Conderana, de la Facultad de Comunicación de la Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, este fascículo titulado “... more

El precio del silencio: abuso de publicidad oficial y otras formas de censura indirecta en América Latina

Buenos Aires; New York: Asociación por los Derechos Civiles (ADC); Open Society Institute (2008), 191 pp.

ISBN 978-987-23559-1-3

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"El precio del silencio' revela una tendencia creciente en varios países de América Latina: la interferencia “tras bambalinas” que ejercen los gobiernos sobre los medios de comunicación y la independencia editorial. Esta “censura sutil” y sus continuos efectos inhibitorios aún no han rec... more

Konfliktprävention: ausgewählte Literatur und Dokumente

Axel Huckstorf (ed.)

Berlin: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) (2008), 36 pp.

The media self-regulation guidebook: all questions and answers

Miklós Haraszti; Yavuz Baydar; William Gore; Veronique Maurus; Ognian Zlatev

Vienna: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (2008), 100 pp.

ISBN 3-9501995-7-2

"Composed of questions and answers, this guidebook is practical and easy to use. There is no ‘one-fits-all’ model that can be readily adopted anywhere. Therefore, the publication does not focus on specific countries, but rather on a wide range of practical concerns. How do the existing self-regu... more

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Media law assistance: establishing an enabling environment for free and independent media to flourish

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2007), 23 pp.

"The working group considered how international media development programs—particularly those that are U.S.-supported—have succeeded or failed, discussed best practices, and made recommendations. Journalist Ann McFeatters served as the rapporteur for the meeting. The discussion focused on severa... more

Journalismuskultur: zur Dimensionierung eines zentralen Konstrukts der kulturvergleichenden Journalismusforschung

Thomas Hanitzsch

Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft, volume 55, issue 3 (2007), pp. 372-389

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"Trotz der zunehmenden Bedeutung von Journalismuskultur als heuristisches Denkwerkzeug vor allem für die komparative und kultursoziologisch motivierte Journalismusforschung hat eine theoretische Auseinandersetzung mit diesem Konzept bislang kaum stattgefunden. Der vorliegende Beitrag versucht diese... more

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Crafting the Arab media for peace-building: donors, dialogue and disasters

Bruce Stanley

In: Arab media and political renewal: community, legitimacy and public life

Naomi Sakr (ed.)

London; New York: Tauris (2007), pp. 135-153

"From small beginnings in the 1960s, Western governments and international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) are today spending huge sums on media intervention in Arab countries, to the point where such intervention has become an industry. Among the plethora of media projects aimed at moulding ... more

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Engendering peace journalism, keeping communities whole: a guide on gender-sensitive peace and conflict reportage

Lina Sagaral Reyes; Raijeli Nicole (eds.)

Manila: Isis International; Mindanaw Women Writers (Min-WoW) (2007), 47 pp., illustr., bibliogr. p.41

"Isis International-Manila welcomed the suggestion of Min-WoW to collaborate on a project on engendered peace journalism and community radio. Thus, the project, “Women Making Airwaves for Peace,” was conceptualized based on the media experiences of Min-WoW and Isis’ experience on community rad... more

Understanding the local media

Meryl Aldridge

Maidenhead: Open University Press (2007), 193 pp., bibliogr. p.170-182, index

ISBN 978-0-33-522172-1 (pbk); 978-0-33-522713-8 (hbk)

"Chapter 1 argues that, nevertheless, for most people, most of the time, their immediate locality is very important. Here social change and political decisions become real; it is in actual localities that people function as citizens. A local public sphere is therefore vital to democracy, however far... short of the conditions for Habermas’s ‘ideal speech’ it falls. From this follows the thread that runs through the rest of the book: to what extent can the local media in the contemporary UK contribute to this ‘space’? Chapter 2 explains the organizational and financial architecture of the regional press. Still profitable, still popular, how is the industry dealing with the proliferation of competing media platforms and convergence of technologies? The editorial strategies developed to accommodate these pressures in the context of wider social and economic change is considered in Chapter 3, which concludes with a case study of Birmingham and its newspapers. Faced with an increasing diversity, what techniques are used to ‘imagine’ the community? Does attempting to address everyone push human interest topics into the foreground at the expense of information and debate? Chapter 4 reviews the rapidly changing regulatory framework for regional broadcasting. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is being cast as the main player, but it is questionable whether it can devote extensive additional resources to news-gathering, given that its status and funding is legitimated by its nationwide responsibilities. Regional news on television is very popular with audiences, but they are not wholly satisfied with it. Chapter 5 argues that current analogue television regions and a ‘family audience’ together produce an interpretive frame in which the affective and subjective is bound to edge out content useful to the public as citizens. Only the BBC provides an adequate local radio news service, but its potential is limited by the target audience. The nations of the UK, the subject of Chapter 6, vividly demonstrate that every aspect of media, ownership, regulation and content is highly politicized. A case study of S4C illustrates both the importance of, and difficulties in sustaining, public service broadcasting. Chapter 7 opens with a review of the vital place that local media still occupy in journalism’s mythology. Many regional journalists take special pride in their work, despite deteriorated conditions, inadequate pay levels, and increasing concerns about whether the work-force, whether in print or broadcast, is properly diverse in all its meanings. Finally, Chapter 8 considers the future of both publicly funded and commercial regional media as new communications technologies drive potentially dramatic changes in audience behaviour and sources of revenue. It concludes that, if inclusive citizenship is to be sustained, blogs, citizen journalism and community media are, as yet, no substitute for conventional media forms." (introduction, p.2-3) more

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Global humanitarianism and the changing aid-media field: "everyone was dying for footage"

Simon Cottle; David Nolan

Journalism studies, volume 8, issue 6 (2007), pp. 862-878

"The crucial interaction between humanitarian agencies and the media has been researched in the past but today it continues to evolve and change—and not for the better. This article, drawing on accounts from communications managers working inside the world's major aid agencies (Red Cross, Oxfam, S... more

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Community media: international perspectives

Linda K. Fuller (ed.)

New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2007), xiii, 258 pp., index

ISBN 978-1-4039-7794-6

"This collection of writing on community media describes attempts at local media development and case studies of functioning projects. It presents a range of perspectives on grassroots media originating from community groups; research representing participant observation; hands-on community involvem... more

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Live news Africa: a survival guide for journalists

Brussels; Dakar: International News Safety Institute (INSI); International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Africa Office (2007), 87 pp.

"Live News: A Survival Guide for Journalists, is carefully tailored to help journalists to prepare themselves mentally, physically and psychologically before engaging on an assignment that can be very dangerous. The guiding tips provided in the text help to prepare the journalists mentally before, h... more

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Freedom of speech in South East Europe: media independence and self-regulation

Sofia: Media Development Center; South East European Network for Professionalization of Media (SEENPM) (2007), 613 pp.

ISBN 978-954-9396-05-8

A revenue based methodology for the classification and comparison of broadcasting systems

Manfred Kops

Berlin; Münster: Lit (2007), 88 pp., 11 tables, 17 fig., bibliogr. p.77-88

ISBN 978-3-8258-0871-6

"This book offers a methodology for the classification and comparison of broadcasting systems, both for positive and normative analyses. It is based on the assumption that the revenue structures of broadcasters determine the incentives for the broadcasters' staffs, and that these incentives in tur... more