"In this reader media experts discuss the prospects and problems of program exchange between German and Chinese Broadcasters. They explain that program exchange is not the cockaigne one could assume with regard to the non-rivalry of media content and the huge Chinese TV market (more than 300 million
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TV households and an estimated 180,000 hours of weekly broadcast time across all TV platforms), but that many economic peculiarities of the media that only can be read in the footnotes of economic text books are highly relevant in practice. To trade TV programs with China thus requires a solid knowledge about the TV business in general, but also about the Chinese media order and the Chinese society, and the Chinese way of business." (Back cover)
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"Liberation and the Media takes a look at the development of the South African daily newspaper market since the end of apartheid. It covers the country's most important political, social and economical developments since 1990 and explains correlations between South Africa's general development and i
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ts newspaper's market between 1990 and 2006. By looking at changes of ownership and new ideas of publishing for a society as divided as South Africa, Liberation and the Media explains what the factors for successful publishing in South Africa are since the end of apartheid, and asks to what extent the market is still influenced by apartheid." (Publisher description)
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"This book presents a network analysis of media ownership dependencies in ten Central and Eastern European countries. In addition to a detailed description of the media landscapes in the Czech Republic, Estonia, Romania and Slovenia it furthermore gives an overview of news agencies operating in thes
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e countries. The publication is the final report of the research project "Media markets in Central and Eastern Europe - Chances of and threats against media pluralism in Europe" carried out at Danube University Krems (Austria)." (Publisher description)
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Lima: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS), Programa Medios de Comunicación y Democracia en América Latina;Instituto Prensa y Sociedad (IPYS) (2005), 122 pp.
Brussels: European Federation of Journalists (EFJ);International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) (2005), 160 pp.
"This survey looks at the impact of media ownership developments in Europe. It finds that pluralism is under pressure and reveals that we do need some honest and critical thinking about how to answer searching questions. The global media are dominated by American media interests. If Europe is to joi
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n the global market it must do so on its own terms, by ensuring that exploitation of the media economy does not mean we have to abandon notions of pluralism, local diversity, and respect for the social rights of people working within the sector – all of which are key elements in the European economic and social model." (Preface)
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