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Digital Communication, Digital Media
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Germany: Media Assistance Actors, Practices, Priorities
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'Comparing Media Systems' (Hallin/Mancini, 2004)
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Transition Countries: Media Systems & Media Landscapes
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Human Rights
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BBC
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Press
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Persuasive Communication
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Islam and Communication
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Digital News Report 2021
Top Insights
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2021), 163 pp.
"This year's report reveals new insights about digital news consumption based on a YouGov survey of over 92,000 online news consumers in 46 markets including India, Indonesia, Thailand, Nigeria, Colombia and Peru for the first time. The report looks at the impact of coronavirus on news consumption a
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Ethnic Journalism in the Global South
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), xiii, 319 pp.
"This book focuses on ethnic journalism in the Global South, approaching it from two angles: as a professional area and as a social mission. The book discusses journalistic practices and ethnic media in the Global South, managerial and editorial strategies of ethnic media outlets, their content spec
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The politics of impunity: A study of journalists’ experiential accounts of impunity in Bulgaria, Democratic Republic of Congo, India, Mexico and Pakistan
Journalism, volume 22, issue 2 (2021), pp. 303-319
"Definitions of impunity regarding crimes against journalists have thus far been too narrow. Therefore, we propose a new approach to understanding impunity as also being grounded in journalists’ lived reality and perceptions to better understand the complexity and breadth of impunity. It is based
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The Invisible Hand of Media Censorship in the Balkans: The Examples of Bulgaria, Serbia and North Macedonia
Brussels: Balkan Free Media Initiative (BFMI) (2021), 57 pp.
Three Decades Later: The Media in South East Europe After 1989
Top Insights
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2021), iii, 305 pp.
"The book depicts and reflects the media change by concentrating on five main topics: the development of the media market, the relationship between media and politics, the establishment of public broadcasters, the status of the journalistic profession and the role of digitalisation and the internet.
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Bulgarian Journalists Under Pressure: Threats, Violence, and Freedom of Speech
In: Handbook of Research on Discrimination, Gender Disparity, and Safety Risks in Journalism
Sadia Jamil; Baris Çoban; Bora Ataman; Gifty Appiah-Adjei (eds.)
Hershey, PA: IGI Global (2021), pp. 212-231
"Bulgarian journalists are under pressure. Although the country has been a member of the EU for 13 years and the legislation on freedom of speech corresponds to Western practices, the country ranks 111th in the annual Freedom of Speech Index. While the cases of work-related physical violence against
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Tackling Kremlin's Media Capture in Southeast Europe: Shared Patterns, Specific Vulnerabilities and Responses to Russian Disinformation
Top Insights
Sofia: Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD) (2021), 124 pp.
"The current report illuminates the scope, means, and reach of Russia’s sharp power influence through the phenomenon of media capture. It traces the regime’s malign impact on good governance and democratic development in eight Southeast European countries (EU members: Bulgaria and Croatia, as we
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Digital News Report 2020
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2020), 111 pp.
"The bulk of this report is based on data collected by a survey of more than 80,000 people in 40 markets and reflects media usage in January/February just before the coronavirus hit many of these countries. But the key trends that we document here, including changes in how people access news, low tr
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A Lockdown for Independent Media? Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Media Landscape and Press Freedom in Central and Southeast Europe
Budapest: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES);N-ost Netzwerk für Osteuropa-Berichterstattung (2020), 37 pp.
"Correspondents in nine countries – Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, and North Macedonia – have analysed how the pandemic has affected to their work environment. Lockdowns have caused print media sales and advertising revenue to collapse. Media w
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The Routledge Companion to Local Media and Journalism
Top Insights
London; New York: Routledge (2020), xxiii, 497 pp.
"Offering a collection of invited contributions from scholars across the world, the volume is structured in seven parts, each exploring a particular aspect of local media and journalism that provide the framework to bring together and consolidate the latest research and theorisations from the field,
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Minority and Indigenous Trends 2020: Focus on Technology
Top Insights
London: Minority Rights Group International (2020), 189 pp.
Building Trust in Journalism: Bulgaria
Ethical Journalism Network (EJN);Evens Foundation;Fritt Ord Foundation (2020), 20 pp.
After the Storm: How to Restore Policy Dialogue and Supportive Discourse Against Gender-Based Violence Online in Bulgaria
Sofia: Bluelink Foundation (2020), 28 pp.
Food, Nutrition and the Media
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xxi, 323 pp.
"Placed at the crossroads of diverse disciplines – medical sciences, information and communication science, sociology of food, agricultural sciences – this book focuses on media, food and nutrition. Contributors to this volume come from different countries including the United Kingdom, Germany,
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Children and the Media: A Guidebook on Ethical Reporting
Sofia: UNICEF;Association of European Journalists - Bulgaria (2019), 50 pp.
"A key element of the guidebook are the follow-up questions, which can guide us in the right direction when children feature in our stories. Some of the questions focus on written rules—for example, making sure we have complied with all the laws—but others target the “unwritten” rules, the t
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Digital News Report 2019
Top Insights
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2019), 153 pp.
"Despite the efforts of the news industry, we find only a small increase in the numbers paying for any online news – whether by subscription, membership, or donation. Growth is limited to a handful of countries mainly in the Nordic region (Norway 34%, Sweden 27%) while the number paying in the US
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CANnual Report 2019: Changing Landscapes. The Past Five Years of the Advertising Industry of Central and Eastern Europe
Budapest: WeCAN Communications, 5th annual report (2019), 177 pp.
A Pillar of Democracy on Shaky Ground: Public Service Media in South East Europe
Top Insights
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS);Media Programme South East Europe (2019), vi, 236 pp.
"This book gives an overview of public service media in South East Europe; referring to the ten countries, which the Media Programme of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung covers. From Croatia to North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the Republic of Moldova, liberalised media markets have emerged following the c
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Media Sustainability Index 2019: The Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Europe and Eurasia
Washington, DC: IREX (2019), xxi, 308 pp.
"The 2019 Europe and Eurasia Media Sustainability Index (MSI) saw another improvement in the combined average score for the 21 countries studied: In 2018, the combined average score was 1.84, and in 2019 this increased to 1.86. In comparison with the previous year’s study, there were modest gains
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Media corruption and issues of journalistic and institutional integrity in post-communist countries: The case of Bulgaria
Communist and Post-Communist Studies, volume 52, issue 1 (2019), pp. 71-79
"From a normative standpoint the media are usually seen as one of the pillars of a national integrity system, entrusted with the tasks of exposing and preventing acts of corruption and educating the public of the harm caused by corruption. Nevertheless, corruption continues to be one of the most sig
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