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"The promulgation of the Broadcasting Service Act (BSA), which contains a three-tier model of the broadcasting system, was supposed to revolutionise the broadcasting media sphere in Zimbabwe. It was supposed to change the dynamics of radio broadcasting in Zimbabwe by increasing the opportunity for p ... more
"El presente artículo analiza la participación de los medios comunitarios y su importancia para la democratización de la comunicación en Ecuador en el marco del Concurso Público de Frecuencias de Radio y Televisión de señal abierta, convocado en 2016. Este concurso cobró importancia en la ag ... more

Assessment of Media Legislation in Jordan

MedMedia;European Union (2015), 27 pp.
"Legal changes are crucial to the development of a media capable of playing a democratic role in Jordan. This includes the lifting of licensing requirements, allowing full access to information and installing independent industry regulators." (Recommendations)

Estándares de libertad de expresión para la transición a una televisión digital abierta, diversa, plural e inclusiva

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression;Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, Relatoría Especial para la Libertad de Expresión (2015), 95 pp.
"La presente tesis presenta un panorama de la problemática particular de los medios audiovisuales sin fines de lucro y de la radiodifusión comunitaria en particular. Desde la perspectiva de la Economía Política de la Comunicación (EPC) analiza aspectos vinculados a la industria de la radiodifus ... more
"This report is a qualitative study focussing on Zimbabwe’s failure and/or refusal to license community radio stations since 2001, despite existing legal frameworks providing for such. It looks at the Constitution of Zimbabwe and the Broadcasting Services Act, the two key pieces of legislation whi ... more

El mundo de la radiodifusión en Costa Rica: Lo que dice la ley y lo que sucede en realidad

San José (CR): Red de Medios e Iniciativas de Comunicación Alternativa (RED MICA);Voces Nuestras;Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung (2013), 45 pp.
"El estudio hace un recorrido por la obsoleta y contradictoria legislación nacional en esta materia, luego se repasan los conceptos que describen la naturaleza de los distintos tipos de radio que existen en el país y posteriormente se describe la manera en que se está utilizando el espectro radio ... more

Calling the Shots: How Ownership Structures Affect the Independence of News Media

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2012), 35 pp.
"At an international level, the media development community should advocate for standards governing media cross-ownership limitations, best practices in media licensing, and the licensing of the broadcast spectrum. States should adopt net neutrality and support increased uncensored access to social ... more

Diversidad y pluralismo en la radiodifusión: Informe anual 2010

México, DF: Programa de Legislaciones y Derecho a la Comunicación AMARC-ALC (2011), 96 pp.
"[...] En este informe confirmamos que si bien existen avances en algunos países, la mayor parte de ellos mantiene un sistema regulatorio y políticas públicas de radio y televisión que violan la libertad de expresión; que se traducen en prácticas discrecionales y discriminatorias en la adjudic ... more

The Future of Small Scale Radio: A Research Report for Ofcom

Essential Research;Ofcom (2011), 72 pp.
"The Government is currently developing a Digital Radio Action Plan which is considering how national and large local stations might migrate to digital-only broadcasting at some point in the future. Small-scale radio stations, both commercial and community, would remain on FM. The Government is also ... more

Concesiones radiales: ¿concentración de medios en Chile?

Santiago de Chile: Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano, Magister en Gerencia Pública (2010), 15 pp.

Print and Broadcast Media Freedom: Disparities and Opening

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2009), 27 pp.
"Using historical data from Freedom House's Freedom of the Press index this report assesses regional trends regarding differing levels of print and broadcast media freedom. While an initial set of data covering 1980-88 shows a clear pattern of print media ranked as freer than broadcast media in ever ... more

Las mordazas invisibles: Nuevas y viejas barreras a la diversidad en la radiodifusión

Buenos Aires: Asociación Mundial de Radios Comunitarias América Latina y Caribe (AMARC ALC), Programa de Legislaciones y Derecho a la Comunicación (2009), 348 pp.
"The African Charter on Broadcasting, adopted in 2001 on the tenth anniversary of the Windhoek Declaration, alongside the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights Declaration of Principles on Freedom of Expression in Africa establish a series of important principles that should guide the de ... more

Community Radio and the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa: The Impact of the Four-Year Licencing Process on the Community Radio Sector

Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI);National Community Radio Forum, Community Media Policy Research Unit (NCRF) (2001), 52 pp.

Media Laws in Pakistan

University of Western Ontario;Commonwealth Association for Education in Journalism and Communication (CAEJC) (1998), 59 pp.

Législations et pluralisme radiophonique en Afrique de l'Ouest

Renaud de la Brosse (collab.)
Paris: L'Harmattan (1997), 143 pp.