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Training Manual on International and Comparative Media and Freedom of Expression Law
Media Legal Defence Initiative (MLDI) (2015), 132 pp.
"This manual has been produced as a resource material for training workshops on media and freedom of expression law. It contains resources and background material to help trainers prepare and participants to understand the issues being discussed. It is expected that participants in the workshops wil
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Right to Information and Media Laws in Pakistan
Islamabad: Centre for Peace and Development Initiatives (CPDI) (2015), iii, 19 pp.
»Agrarreform in der Luft«: Eine medienethnographische Untersuchung zur Legitimierung unabhängiger Radios in Brasilien
Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin, Doctoral Thesis (2015), 410 pp.
"Auch wenn es in Brasilien heute mehr als 4.000 Community Radios gibt, empfinden viele der Radiomachenden die gesetzlichen Rahmenbedingungen nicht als adäquate Übersetzung des »Rechts auf Radio«. Sie setzen den legalen Einschränkungen ihres Medienmachens deshalb ein wirkmächtiges Konzept entge
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State-Media Financial Relations in Macedonia: Media Freedom Curbed with Public Money
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
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Violações de direitos na mídia brasileira: Guia de monitoramento. Uma ferramenta prática para identificar violações de direitos no campo da comunicação de massa
ANDI; Intervozes (2015), 80 pp.
"Esse Guia é decorrente de forte demanda do movimento social brasileiro, provocada pela proliferação de narrativas midiáticas que violam direitos elementares, previstos em lei. Capitaneada pela TV, a tendência espraia-se por outros meios e dilui as fronteiras entre jornalismo e entretenimento,
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State-Media Financial Relations in Albania: Nurturing Client-Based Media Practices
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
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De la concentración a la convergencia: Políticas de medios en Argentina y América Latina
Buenos Aires: Paidós (2015), 206 pp.
"The first section is dedicated to the definition of the concept of freedom of expression. First, international and regional texts are analyzed. Then, an overview of the bodies involved in the process of defining and protecting freedom of expression throughout the world is presented. The following s
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Free Speech and Censorship Around the Globe
Deep Insights
Budapest; New York: Central European University Press (2015), x, 552 pp.
"This is a book about free speech narratives. Stories about how imagination and rational thinking in wildly different cultures capture, imagine, and conceptualize what freedom of speech means. 1989 and 2011 are only two recent (in historic perspective) turning points when freedom of speech and freed
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News Media Landscape in a Fragile State: Professional Ethics Perceptions in a Post-Ba'athist Iraq
Mass Communication & Society, volume 18, issue 4 (2015), pp. 471-497
"During the years of Ba'athist dictator Saddam Hussein, media personnel were under tight control and tortured or executed when they strayed from the government line. In the decade following the fall of the Ba'athist regime, thousands of Iraqi journalists were trained in liberal democratic profession
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The United Nations and Freedom of Expression and Information: Critical Perspectives
Deep Insights
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2015), xxiv, 508 pp.
"There are a multitude of UN legal instruments which pertain to the rights of freedom of expression and information, and this book is the first to comprehensively map them and their function. It details the chequered history of both rights within the UN system and evaluates the suitability of the sy
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Im Würgegriff: Russlands Medienlandschaft unter Druck
Osteuropa, volume 65, issue 3 (2015), pp. 141-149
"Unabhängige Medien befinden sich weltweit seit über einem Jahrzehnt in einer tiefen ökonomischen Krise. In Russland kommt massiver politischer Druck hinzu. In den vergangenen zehn Jahren wurden zahlreiche kritische Journalisten und Redakteure entlassen, Fernseh- und Radiosender geschlossen, Zeit
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Pluralism with Little Diversity: The South African Experience of Media Transformation
In: Media Pluralism and Diversity: Concepts, Risks and Global Trends
London: Palgrave Macmillan (2015), pp. 237-251
"This chapter explores the South African experience in attempting to achieve a more diverse and representative media that articulate the aspirations of the country, after decades of apartheid which skewed the media towards white people. South Africa has not developed a diversity measurement tool, su
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Freedom of Expression and Media Regulation: A Media Legislation Manual
Key Guides
Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2015), 94 pp.
Media Freedom as a Fundamental Right
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2015), xlii, 292 pp.
Freedom of the Press and Media Regulation in Cambodia: Approaches and Options for Democratic Diversity
Phnom Penh: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2015), 66 pp.
"Two basic principles should prevail for media regulation in Cambodia: 1. Consistent application of the principles of the rule of law on the basis of the constitutional rights of freedom of speech and press (Art. 35 and 41: Cambodian Constitution). 2. Transparent and predictable regulative decision-
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Eroding Freedoms: Media and Soft Censorship in Montenegro
Paris; Washington, DC: WAN-IFRA; Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2015), 23 pp.
"Montenegro’s government should support openness and informed debate in making and implementing public policy decisions. Instead, information concerning matters of public interest is often withheld or distorted by government and by pliant media outlets favoured with official assistance. State fund
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