"Nearly 200 countries are surveyed in this alphabetical, international guide to print and broadcast media. Each country profile contains a brief historical and political overview and sections focusing on news sources, the press, broadcasting, and a directory of major newspapers, broadcast organizati
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ons, agencies, and press associations. Most entries are two to four pages in length, although a few (Japan, United Kingdom, United States) are ten pages or longer. Drost passively states in his spare one-page introduction that: "A few words should perhaps be said on terminology: "owned by" is used loosely to cover a maze of ownership patterns; "independent" is used as a description of ownership, not political or editorial stance; a "daily" is published on at least four days per week; and "tabloid" refers to paper size not content." (Jo A. Cates: Journalism - a guide to the reference literature. Englewood, Col.: Libraries Unlimited, 2nd ed. 1997 nr. 129)
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"Increased attention is being paid to 'smallness' as an analytical dimension as processes of internationalization and cross-media networking accelerate. To assure a certain 'room for manoeuvre' of small states' media and to enhance regional identities in Europe — in some respects counteracting the
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integrating power of the European Community and associated market forces — political action on various levels is required. Small states' media operate under special and difficult conditions of small internal markets, shortages of resources, external dependency and vulnerability, and pressures of political corporatism. In order to preserve small states' media culture in such circumstances, media policy concepts should include integrated, cross-media oriented and 'media-ecological' elements." (Abstract)
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"Más allá de la llamada "comunicación social", este trabajo explora la cara oculta del problema en lo relativo a los servicios postales, la telecomunicación y otras industrias culturales básicas relacionadas con el fenómeno." (Catálogo Monte Ávila 1994)
"Founded in 1945, the history of Gaskiya Corporation has always been closely associated with the development of book and newspaper publishing in Northern Nigeria, including the establishment of the oldest surviving Hausa-language newspaper, Gaskiya ta fi kwabo. In the 1940s and 1950s the Corporation
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published a total of sixteen weeklies in Hausa and in other Nigerian languages. In 1948 it began the publication of the national daily The Nigerian Citizen. The first part of the book contains historical articles on the Gaskiya Corporation and on publishing in Zaria and Northern Nigeria, by contributors including R.M. East, Husaini Hayatu, Neil Skinner, and Lindsay Barrett. Part two offers biographical information on 26 past and present personalities in the Gaskiya Corporation. Subsequent chapters describe the present [1991] structure and planned future development of the Corporation." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 794)
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"Provides data in charts statistical tables and diagrams on all forms of media in Brazil as well as information on Brazilian market characteristics and the advertising industry in print and diskette formats." (Ann Hartness, Brazil in Reference Books 1965-1989. Scarecrow Press, 1991)