"This Handbook is primarily for journalists, students, educators and activists, as well as the media managers. Its intention is not to offer a comprehensive review of professional and ethical standards on reporting diversities, but to prepare a general framework of rules that are accepted in profess
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ional journalism’s practice. Hence, the recommendations are actually a part of professional standards in journalism and ethical codes that apply worldwide. The presence of diversities in the editor’s offices and in journalistic contents attracts new audiences to the medium. It encourages the process of finding creative, original and alternative ways of reporting on diversities in a society such as Macedonia. The Handbook consists of several parts that offer recommendations for reporting on: ethnic and religious differences, gender issues, sexual minorities, persons with special needs, elderly, refugees and displaced persons, and different races. It provides basic recommendations for the media to promote diversity in society, but also for the establishment and maintenance of the concept of diversity in the editor’s offices." (Introduction)
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"This study, an investigation of the media in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria by American and East European scholars, seeks to outline both the general legacies of communism that confront media reform in eastern Europe, as well as point to how the specific interac
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tion between the media, state, society and market has led to the development of particular and unique dynamics in each case." (Back cover)
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"Die Meinungsfreiheit gehört heute zu den wenigen tragfähigen Säulen, auf die sich die noch immer gefährdete Demokratisierung in Rußland stützen kann. Das ist das Verdienst der sowjetischen bzw. russischen Presse, die sich bereits im Verlauf von Gorbatschows Perestrojka weitgehend von der Gän
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gelung durch den Staat und die ehemalige kommunistische Staatspartei emanzipierte und in zähem Ringen die Annahme eines liberalen Pressegesetzes durchsetzte. Die Journalisten hatten schnell erkannt, welche Chancen ihnen die zunächst von oben gewährte, begrenzte "Glasnost" seit 1985 bot. Die Redaktionen einiger großer offizieller Zeitungen und insbesondere die Herausgeber "informeller", aus der Tradition des Samizdat hervorgegangener, Publikationen, setzten sich so an die Spitze der politischen Reformkräfte in der Sowjetunion. Ob sich eine freie, unabhängige Presse im postkommunistischen Rußland auf Dauer etablieren kann, wird allerdings auch von der wirtschaftlichen und politischen Stabilisierung des Landes abhängen. Die vorliegende Untersuchung belegt anhand zahlreicher Beispiele die zentrale Rolle der russischen Publizistik für den Systemwandel. Sie ordnet ihre Bedeutung als politischer Akteur ein in den gesamtgesellschaftlichen Transitions-Prozeß, der Rußland weiterhin in Atem hält." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"A UNESCO report headed by Sean MacBride of Ireland in which representatives from Canada, Chile, Columbia, Egypt, France, India, Indonesia, Japan, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Tunisia, the U.S., the U.S.S.R., Yugoslavia and Zaire were mandated "to study the totality of Communication problems in modern
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society" in order to formulate "a more just and more efficient world information and communication order," keeping in mind particularly the differences among nations in culture and resources. The result of this hard, if not impossible, charge to reconcile divergent viewpoints represents a compromise which can wholly please none of the three worlds, but it does offer a wide-ranging investigation with varying viewpoints. Appendixes include a list of international organizations active in communications, and there are, in addition, a list of about 100 available background papers. Index. For a discussion of the report giving some of its strengths and weaknesses see 'Communication in the Eighties: A Reader on the "MacBride Report"', edited by Cees J. Hamelink. A 244-page paperback abridgement, 'Many Voices, One World', was published in 1984 by UNESCO." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 210)
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"Rappel de la motion adressée à l'Unesco, au Congrès de la F.I.E.J. en 1967, relative à la pluralité de la presse dans les pays en voie de développement. Il faut surtout poursuivre l'eeuvre de conviction auprès des gouvernements afin que ces derniers encouragent le plus grand nombre possible
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d'initiatives dans le domaine de l'édition de quotidiens et de périodiques." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 133, topic code 110.32)
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"Vitalità del mezzo radiofonico, nonostante la rivalità congiunta di cinema e televisione - Analisi delle ragioni di questa resistenza vittoriosa - Cause estrinseche e diversità del linguaggio." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels
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: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 420, topic code 29, 49)
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