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Secrets, lies, and journalist-spies: The contemporary moral dilemma for Bulgarian media professionals

Lada Trifonova Price

International Journal of Press/Politics, volume 20, issue 2 (2015), pp. 185-203

"The subject of this article is the issue of journalist-spies in the Bulgarian media before and after the fall of communism in 1989. The focus is on the perceptions of Bulgarian journalists on the role alleged secret service collaborators played, and continue to play, in the postcommunist society an ... more

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Bulgarians Feel Badly Informed by Media and Politicians

Christian Spahr

Sofia: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS), Media Program South East Europe (2015), 4 pp.

"59 percent of the population of Bulgaria do not consider the media to be independent. Many are undecided and only 17 percent believe reporting is free. The crisis of confidence in the media is continuing, according to a study on behalf of the KAS Media Program South East Europe. Citizens also feel ... more

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Mediated Communities: Civic Voices, Empowerment and Media Literacy in the Digital Era

Moses Shumow (ed.)

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2015), xi, 216 pp.

"Mediated Communities brings together a diverse, global cohort of academics and professional communicators to assess the current state of democratic mobilizing around the world and the ways in which protest movements are being transformed in the midst of a communication revolution. The volume’s co ... more

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Media Propaganda and Human Rights Issues: What Can be Learnt from the Former Yugoslavia’s Experience in Relation to the Current Developments in the Arab Spring Countries?

Renaud de la Brosse, Nouri Lajmi, Annelie Ekelin

Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research, volume 8, issue 1 (2015), pp. 21-36

"Recent history has proven that media propaganda can impact severely on human rights issues. This article aims at exploring what can be learnt from previous lessons in order to avoid the same mistakes happening again and/or to fight them more efficiently. It questions the experience of the former Yu ... more

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CANnual Report 2015: The Advertising Economy of Central and Eastern Europe Reflected in Numbers

Budapest: WeCAN Communications (2015), 196 pp.

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Media in South East Europe and their dealing with the past

Dobrina Trifonova

Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (2015), 2 pp.

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Baseline Assessment of the “Guidelines for EU Support to Media Freedom and Media Integrity in the Enlargement Countries 2014-20”

Pam van de Bunt, Davor Glavas, Tihomir Loza, Enton Dimni, Dijan Albayrak

European Commission;Particip (2015), 99, 173 pp.

"For this assessment more than 390 surveys were made in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey [...] In addition to the survey a further 150 in-depth interviews were held, complemented by a Focus Group in each country, which ... more

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The Trust Factor: An EJN Review of Journalism and Self-Regulation
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Aidan White (ed.)

London: Ethical Journalism Network (EJN) (2015), 72 pp.

"This report examines self-regulation in challenging times. Journalism is increasingly a single stream of information disseminated simultaneously across different platforms of media, but its regulation remains dominated by old-fashioned notions of how media work. Usually there are two ways of regula ... more

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Online Video Forecasts 2015

Anne Austin, Jonathan Barnard, Nicola Hutcheon

London: ZenithOptimedia (2015), 85 pp.

"This report gives forecasts for online video spend and consumption, where available, for 40 markets in which online video is at varying stages of development. From markets such as Singapore, where 85% of the population claims to access online video (according to GlobalWebIndex, 2014), to countries ... more

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Employment Conditions of Journalists in Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia - Regional Report

Radomir Cholakov

Bucureçti (RO): Center for Independent Journalism;South-East European Partnership for Media Development (2015), 23 pp.

"A crowded and rather poor media market, unable to secure the sustainability of media operations, a high level of job insecurity making the journalists vulnerable to political and economic pressures and – more often than not – leading to self-censorship – are some of the conclusions [...] The ... more

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Media and Information Literacy for the Sustainable Development Goals

Jagtar Singh, Alton Grizzle, Sin Joan Yee, Sherri Hope Culver (eds.)

Göteborg: Nordicom;International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media (2015), 334 pp.

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Kosovo: Setting Media Standards. Public Awareness and Effectiveness of the Independent Media Commission and the Press Council of Kosovo

Bill Taylor

Thomson Foundation (2015), 19 pp.

"Within a few short years, the Press Council of Kosovo (PCK) and the Independent Media Commission (IMC) have successfully established a model of media regulation and selfregulation familiar to Western democracies. This follows a historic period of state or partisan influence in print media and broad ... more

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Media Sustainability Index 2015: The Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Europe and Eurasia

Leon Morse (ed.)

Washington, DC: IREX (2015), xxii, 323 pp.

"Results of the 2015 MSI study for Europe & Eurasia (E&E) at first glance show encouraging results: the average of 21 overall country scores increased by 0.04 compared with last year, representing the highest average of overall scores so far this decade. Out of 21 countries studied, seven increased ... more

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State-Media Financial Relations in Macedonia: Media Freedom Curbed with Public Money

Vesna Nikodinoska, Ljubica Grozdanovska-Dimiskovska

Ljubljana: Peace Institute;South East European Media Observatory (2015), 19 pp.

"The government has developed various mechanisms for creating financial dependence on the part of the media, at both the national and the regional level. Owing to these financial relations, the media outlets become servile to the government, thereby seriously undermining own professional integrity a ... more

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Media Ownership and Financing in Montenegro: Weak Regulation Enforcement and Persistence of Media Control

Daniela Brkic

Ljubljana: Peace Institute;South East European Media Observatory (2015), 22 pp.

"Non-transparent ownership of media, particularly those financed by foreign capital, continues to burden Montenegrin media scene. Foreign media owners, as a rule, continue to support pro-government editorial policies. Their overall operations raise doubts of existence of clientelistic relations with ... more

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Media Ownership and Finances in Kosovo: Legal Vacuum and Lack of Transparency

Isuf Berisha

Ljubljana: Peace Institute;South East European Media Observatory (2015), 23 pp.

"Media ownership and media financing, although both crucially influence the ability of the media in Kosovo to play democratic role and demonstrate integrity of their journalism and business operations, have not been properly addressed through the media legislation in Kosovo. Lack of transparency mad ... more

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State-Media Financial Relations in Albania: Nurturing Client-Based Media Practices

Ilda Londo

Ljubljana: Peace Institute;South East European Media Observatory (2015), 19 pp.

"The transparency of media market in Albania continues to be low, including both commercial operations and the state funding, despite of the existing databases. The involvement of new actors, such as advertising agencies, and sister companies of media outlets, makes it even more difficult to track s ... more

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State-Media Financial Relations in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Increasingly Dependent and Disciplined Media

Sanela Hodžic

Ljubljana: Peace Institute;South East European Media Observatory (2015), 20 pp.

"Particular political and business interests seem to overpower any notion of public interest in the financial relations between government and the media. The public interest that these financial patterns should in theory serve remains under-articulated and unmonitored with a lack of clear criteria, ... more

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State-Media Financial Relations in Serbia: A Transitional Year. Who Will Benefit from the Media Reforms?

Bojana Barlovac

Ljubljana: Peace Institute;South East European Media Observatory (2015), 15 pp.

"The outflow of money from state/public funds to the media has for years been unreasonable and non-transparent. Therefore, the ultimate goal of the ongoing media reforms is to introduce certain control and transparency through privatisation of state-owned media and introduce co-financing of media pr ... more

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Media Indicators 2015: A Thorough Study from a Journalists’ Point of View on Kosovo’s Media Freedom and Conditions

Civil Rights Defenders (2015), 56 pp.

"The main objective of the study was to determine and examine the perception of journalists in Kosovo on freedom of media, based on 27 indicators of the European Council. The analysis is categorized in six sectors, covering all areas of the study that pertain significant information on the perceptio ... more

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