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Ländervergleich Onlinemedienförderung: Ergänzungsbericht. Bericht zuhanden des Bundesamts für Kommunikation

Freiburg (CH): Universität Freiburg, Schweiz, Departement für Kommunikationswissenschaft und Medienforschung (DCM) (2020), 67 pp.
"Direkte Förderung: In Dänemark, Italien, Kanada, Luxemburg, Norwegen und Schweden existiert eine direkte Produktionsförderung für textbasierten Onlinejournalismus, in Finnland zumindest eine für Publikationen in Minderheitensprachen, in Frankreich für Lokalmedien. Eine wirklich konvergente di ... more

Annual Report 2018/2019

Johannesburg: Media Development & Diversity Agency (MDDA) (2019), 136 pp.

Modelle zur Förderung lokaler Medienvielfalt in EU-Mitgliedstaaten

Deutscher Bundestag, Wissenschaftliche Dienste (2019), 31 pp.
"Die Presseförderung in den EU-Ländern sowie in Norwegen und der Schweiz zeichnet sich durch umfangreiche, durchaus auch unterschiedliche Systeme aus, wobei Formen der direkten und der indirekten Förderung jeweils zu unterscheiden sind. Steuererleichterungen für die Presse sind im Bereich der in ... more
"The media industry has been ravaged by the economic crises. Some media, mainly those covering tabloid fare and digitally savvier than others or those backed by deep-pocketed investors, are surviving or even thriving. But independent journalism outfits, particularly outside the Western world, have b ... more

Alternative Models of Financing Investigative Journalism

Hamburg: University of Hamburg, Hamburg Business School;Hans-Bredow-Institut (2018), 42 pp.
"This report aims to identify, evaluate, and discuss models to finance investigative journalism in the EU. To provide a thorough evaluation, we developed a set of criteria that cover six areas to that the financial source may exert an influence from high to low degrees. Those are (1) Independence, ( ... more

Commission Decisions on State Aid to the Press

European Commission (2018), 3 pp.
"A list of 30 EU member states' national media support projects between 2005 and 2018 "where the European Commission, after a preliminary examination, finds that no doubts are raised as to the compatibility with the common market of a notified measure, in so far as it falls within the scope of Artic ... more

Subsidies: Fuel for the Media

In: Comparative Media Policy, Regulation and Governance in Europe: Unpacking the Policy Cycle
Leen d’Haenens; Helena Sousa; Josef Trappel (eds.)
Chicago, Bristol: intellect (2018), pp. 73-91
"Media subsidies have proved useful and appropriate as means to attain both economic and value-related objectives. Media companies often prefer indirect (and less transparent) ‘fuel’, while States favour direct subsidies. However, there is little scientific research on the actual impact of media ... more

Research Report: Regulatory Framework for Community Broadcasting

Johannesburg: Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) (2017), 109 pp.
"There are currently 280 community broadcasting services (275 community sound and 5 community television services). According to AC Nielsen and All Media and Products Survey (AMPS) data, community broadcasting services collectively take up an audience share of 6.3 million people in South Africa. How ... more
"The Republic of Korea has been successful in investing in its people and its talents. It is now investing in the potential for the youth to be great entrepreneurs. We hope that this report will be useful to developing countries and encourage them to look into new growth opportunities and sustainabl ... more
"There are over 120 Australian Government funded Indigenous Broadcasting Services (IBSs) operating in Australia, with further unfunded IBS transmission sites. They vary in size from very small remote services to large community radio broadcasting services, and together, they reach an estimated audie ... more

European and International Media Law

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2017), lxx, 583 pp.
"This book is the first to incorporate current academic literature on European, transnational, and international media law into a comprehensive overview intended primarily for students. It introduces the legal framework for globalised communication via mass media, and considers the transformative ef ... more
"More than 20 years into democracy, the South African media landscape, although free and moderately pluralistic, still does not represent fairly the diversity of viewpoints held in the country. Yet, the South African media debate on transformation has been dominated by the ANC’s continued focus on ... more
"This report reviews similarities and differences in public sector support for the media across a sample of six developed democracies – Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States – that represent a wide range of different media systems and different approaches to ... more

Medienförderung im europäischen Vergleich

Wien: Universität Wien, Magister Thesis (2016), 133 pp.

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 ... more
"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

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 ... more

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

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