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Journalists and Media Accountability: An International Study of News People in the Digital Age

Susanne Fengler, Colin Porlezza, Gianpietro Mazzoleni, Tobias Eberwein (eds.)

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2014), vii, 313 pp.

"Do existing structures of media accountability - such as press councils, codes of ethics, and ombudspersons - suffice, or do we urgently need new instruments and initiatives in today's converging media world? These questions were tackled in an international survey of 1,800 journalists in twelve Eur ... more

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Der Buchmarkt in Slowenien

Steffen Hillebrecht

Erlangen: Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Buchwissenschaft (2014), 24 pp.

"Die Faszination des slowenischen Buchmarkts ergibt sich aus mehreren Merkmalen. Zum einen handelt es sich europaweit gesehen um den kleinsten abgrenzbaren Buchmarkt, wenn man von Island absieht. Kleinstaaten wie Liechtenstein, Monaco oder San Marino gehören sprachlich zu dem größeren deutschen b ... more

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From Secrecy to Common Knowledge: The Right to Information in Serbia and Bulgaria

Christian Spahr

KAS International Reports, issue 4 (2014), pp. 8-22

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Windows of Opportunity: The Transformation of State Media to Public Service Media in Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Moldova and Serbia

Jan Lublinski, Erik Albrecht, Petra Berner, Laura Schneider, Merjam Wakili, Jackie Wilson

Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 4, issue 2 (2014), 30 pp.

"The transformation of state media to public service media (PSM) is one of the most ambitious endeavors in the field of media development. Not many efforts to free the national media from government control have succeeded in the past decades. In this paper the comparatively promising cases of Kyrgyz ... more

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Understanding Socialist Television: Concepts, Objects, Methods

Sabina Mihelj

Journal of European Television History & Culture, volume 3, issue 5 (2014), pp. 7-16

"This article develops a number of conceptual and methodological proposals aimed at furthering a firmer agenda for the field of socialist television studies. It opens by addressing the issue of relevance of the field, identifying three critical contributions the study of socialist television can mak ... more

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Media Sustainability Index 2014: The Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Europe and Eurasia

Leon Morse (ed.)

Washington, DC: IREX (2014), xx, 307 pp.

"The 2014 MSI study for Europe & Eurasia is marked by an overall constancy of scores, for better or worse. Taken as a whole, the average of 21 overall scores shows an increase of 0.01 compared with last year. Out of the 21 countries studied, 13 showed a change in score of less than 0.10. Of the rema ... more

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Media Integrity Matters: Reclaiming Public Service Values in Media and Journalism

Brankica Petkovic, Jovana Mihajlovic Trbovc (eds.)

Sandra B. Hrvatin Contrib.;Londo, Ilda;Hodžic, Sanela;Popovic, Helena;Trpevska, Snežana;Micevski, Igor;Matic, Jovanka;Valic Nedeljkovic, Dubravka

Ljubljana: Peace Institute;South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) (2014), 445 pp.

"This book is an attempt to address obstacles to a democratic development of media systems in the countries of South East Europe by mapping patterns of corrupt relations and practices in media policy development, media ownership and financing, public service broadcasting, and journalism as a profess ... more

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Media Assistance in Serbia: Achievements and Challenges

Davor Marko

Sarajevo: Analitika – Center for Social Research (2014), 8 pp.

"While in 1990s media assistance efforts focused on ensuring the survival of independent media outlets under the authoritarian rule of the Miloševiæ regime, the scope of the assistance expanded after the regime collapsed in 2000, to address a range of issues, such as legal reforms, the establishme ... more

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Development Efforts to Promote Investigative Reporting: A Preliminary Assessment of Centers in Azerbaijan, Jordan, Bangladesh, and Bosnia

Rosemary Armao

Paper presented at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Rio de Janeiro;Investigative Journalism Education Consortium (IJEC) (2014), 12 pp.

"This paper compares and contrasts four centers: The Center for Investigative Reporting in Bosnia-Herzegovina (CIN), The Journalism Training and Research Initiative in Bangladesh (JATRI), the Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism in Jordan (ARIJ), and The Caucasus Media Investigations Center ( ... more

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Global Information Society Watch 2014: Communications Surveillance in the Digital Age

Association for Progressive Communications (APC);Hivos (2014), 283 pp.

"This Global Information Society Watch tracks the state of communications surveillance in 57 countries across the world – countries as diverse as Hungary, India, Argentina, The Gambia, Lebanon and the United Kingdom. Each country report approaches the issue from a different perspective. Some analy ... more

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Net Children Go Mobile: Final Report

Giovanna Mascheroni, Andrea Cuman

Milano: Educatt (2014), 50 pp.

This report is based on a quantitative study of 3500 children, aged from 9 to 16 years in seven countries, and a qualitative study with 327 children and 230 adults (parents, teachers and educators) in nine European countries (Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Spain ... more

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The Media in Europe's Small Nations

Huw David Jones (ed.)

Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2014), xi, 183 pp.

"What are the particular characteristics of the media in small nations? What challenges do broadcasters and other media institutions in these countries face, how can these be overcome, and are there advantages to operating in a small national context? How are small nations represented on screen, and ... more

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Feminist Publicist Strategies: Women's NGOs' Media Activism and Television Journalism in Serbia and Croatia

Danica Minic

Media, Culture & Society, volume 36, issue 2 (2014), pp. 133-149

"This article defines feminist media activism in terms of counter-public communication and provides a brief overview of activities, functions, types of activists and historical contexts relevant to this kind of feminist activism. Following this research approach, it then examines the specific cases ... more

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Freedom of the Media in the Western Balkans

Elda Brogi, Alina Dobreva, Pier Luigi Parcu et al.

Brussels: European Union, Directorate-General for External Policies of the Union, Policy Department (2014), 88 pp.

"The study analyses media freedom and pluralism in the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Serbia) in light of the EU enlargement policy. Despite the different stages of their EU accession paths, these countries share si ... more

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The Transparency of Media Ownership in the European Union and Neighbouring States

Rachael Craufurd Smith, Yolande Stolte

Access Info Europe;Open Society Program on Independent Journalism (2014), 28 pp.

"Despite the importance of media ownership transparency for both the individual and the state, only two of the surveyed countries—Italy and Romania—address media transparency directly in their constitutions but in both cases the focus is on transparency of fi nancial sources not ownership. In th ... more

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Journalism and Dealing with the Past: A Manual for Journalists in Kosovo
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Prishtina (KO): Forum Ziviler Friedensdienst (forumZFD) (2014), 30 pp.

"This manual is the result of Frequencies of the Past, a conflict sensitive journalism project by forumZFD. From 2011 to 2013, journalists from different media, ethnic backgrounds and from various regions of Kosovo have joined the project to explore the opportunities to cover sensitive issues relate ... more

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Independence and Functioning of the Audiovisual Media Authority of Albania: An Assessment Using the INDIREG Methodology

Kristina Irion, Michele Ledger, Sara Svensson, Erion Fejzulla

Council of Europe (2014), 86 pp.

"This study carries out an independent assessment of the Audiovisual Media Authority (AMA) of Albania. The scope of the study is to apply the INDIREG methodology to the AMA and provide contextual interpretation of the results with policy recommendations. The INDIREG methodology offers a scientifical ... more

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Meanings of Audiences: Comparative Discourses

Richard Butsch, Sonia Livingstone (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2014), xi, 206 pp.

"With essays on audiences in ancient Greece, early modern Germany, Soviet and post-Soviet Russia, Zimbabwe, contemporary Egypt, Bengali India, China, Taiwan, and immigrant diaspora in Belgium, each chapter examines the ways in which audiences are embedded in discourses of power, representation, and ... more

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Party Colonisation of the Media in Central and Eastern Europe

Péter Bajomi-Lázár

Budapest et al.: Central European University Press (2014), vi, 273 pp.

"The author argues that differences in media freedom and in the politicization of the news media are rooted in differences in party structures between old and new democracies, and, notably, the fact that young parties in the new members of the European Union are short of resources, which makes them ... more

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Women in Politics and Media: Perspectives from Nations in Transition

Maria Raicheva-Stover, Elza Ibroscheva (eds.)

New York; London: Bloomsbury Academic (2014), xiv, 334 pp.

"This is the first collection to de-Westernize the scholarship on women, politics and media by: 1) highlighting the latest research on countries and regions that have not been ‘the usual suspects’; 2) featuring a diverse group of scholars, many of non-Western origin; 3) giving voice through pers ... more

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