"Une presse indépendante est essentielle pour un développement économique équitable : elle contribue à donner la parole aux personnes pauvres et privées de droit. Des médias autonomes participent également à l’édification de bases solides pour une société libre et transparente. Les aut
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eurs, parmi lesquels figurent quelques Prix Nobel, comme Joseph Stiglitz, ancien économiste en chef de la Banque Mondiale et le célèbre Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez, étudient le rôle des médias comme garde-fous des secteurs publics et privés et la politique en matière de liberté de la presse. Ils jugent également les effets nuisibles que peut causer un journalisme irresponsable et contraire à l’éthique. Un ouvrage de réflexion pour les étudiants, les professeurs et les chercheurs en communication et pour ceux qui s'intéressent au pouvoir et à l'impact des médias." (Description de la maison d'édition)
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"The aim of this training manual is to introduce the basic concepts of journalism and its evolution in a way that the readers understand and acknowledge the responsibility of the task of informing the citizens. This manual aims to be a tool to strengthen community media as a way to the empowerment o
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f societies. The text is an introduction to concepts such as information, communication, propaganda, public opinion and the agenda setting process. We believe that it is necessary to understand how media work and to be familiar with the media structure in order to participate in it and influence it to change it, so that citizens feel closer to media." (Introduction, page 7)
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"This special volume is devoted to a selection of papers from the many that were presented at the ‘Reporting Zimbabwe: Before and After 2000 Conference’ held on 25th February 2005 at London’s Stanhope Centre, as part of the Africa Media Series organized by the University of Westminster’s Com
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munication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI). The appetite for Zimbabwean news is demonstrated by, for example, evidence presented at the conference which showed that of 48 documentaries shown on BBC from November 2000 to January 2004, Zimbabwe received the second most attention, with 7 documentaries. Zimbabwe came after the Israel/Palestine conflict which was covered by 16 documentaries. Zimbabwe came to dominate headlines in various UK and global media. Zimbabwe had become such major global news story at the start of the new millennium, 1999- 2005. The idea was to critically evaluate and investigate the ways in which local and global mass media were depicting the events in troubled Zimbabwe, a former British colony that obtained independence in 1980. Attended by over 100 delegates from different countries and continents, the conference succeeded in bringing together critical interdisciplinary analyses of the role of the mass media in the ongoing democratic and social- justice struggles in today’s Zimbabwe. The various papers presented at the conference, and those in this volume, dealt with diverse themes ranging from the rise of patriotic journalism in Zimbabwe and media freedom struggles to the definition, character and representation of the ‘land issue’, and more broadly the ‘Zimbabwe crisis’ in African and international media. The participants included British and Zimbabwean politicians, government officials, students, journalists, academics, activists, civic groups and members of the Britain- Zimbabwe Society (BZS)." (Editorial abstract)
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"Journalism and Democracy in Asia addresses key issues of freedom, democracy, citizenship, openness and journalism in contemporary Asia, looking especially at China, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, the Philippines and India. The authors take varying approaches to questions of democracy, whilst also conside
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ring journalism in print, radio and new media, in relation to such questions as the role of social, political and economic liberalization in bringing about a blooming of the media, the relationship between the media and the development of democracy and civil society, and how journalism copes under authoritarian rule." (Publisher description)
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"Key Concepts in Journalism offers a systematic and accessible introduction to the terms, processes, and effects of journalism; a combination of practical considerations with theoretical issues; and further reading suggestions. The authors bring an enormous range of experience in newspaper and broad
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cast journalism, at national and regional level, as well as their teaching expertise." (Publisher description)
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"Hasty decodes the styles and uncovers the strategies that characterize Ghana's major printed news media, focusing on the differences between news generated by the state and news that comes from private sources. Not only are the angles radically different, but so are ways of gathering the news, assi
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gning beats, using sources, and writing articles. For all its differences in presentation, however, Hasty shows that the news in Ghana projects a unified voice that is the result of a contentious and multifarious process that joins Ghanaians in global, national, and local debates. An important engagement with the production of news and news media, this book also explores questions about the relationship of popular culture to state politics, the expression of civic culture, and the role of the media in constituting national and cultural identities." (Publisher description)
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"Ein Fachlexikon zum Journalismus, den Medien sowie den jeweiligen wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen und theoretischen Ansätzen legen die 3 an der Universität Hamburg arbeitenden Medienwissenschaftler zusammen mit 100 weiteren namhaften Autoren in 114 Beiträgen vor, die weitgehend nach bewährtem
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Schema (Definition, Geschichte, Forschung, Ausblick) aufgebaut sind. Artikel über die wichtigsten Länder und Regionen und ihre Mediensysteme sind hinzugefügt, sodass der Anspruch der Internationalität eingelöst ist. Querverweise sind integriert, ein Register fehlt. Vornehmlich richtet sich das Lexikon an Studierende und Lernende, aber auch an Journalisten und Interessenten für Medienfragen. Naturgemäß erreichen die Artikel dieses Ziel unterschiedlich, je nach Niveau, Duktus, Ausführlichkeit, Sachlichkeit und Präzision werden angestrebt." (Online-Bibliothekskatalog Staatsbibliothek Berlin)
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"Die großen Hoffnungen, die Anfang der 1990er Jahre in den Demokratisierungsprozess im südlichen Afrika gesetzt wurden, haben sich überwiegend nicht erfüllt. In einer Demokratie soll Journalismus Öffentlichkeit herstellen und zur Meinungsbildung beitragen. Eine Voraussetzung dafür ist Pressefr
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eiheit. Doch die Analyse des Falles Sambia zeigt, dass der Druck auf die Pressefreiheit dort Ende der 1990er Jahre sogar verstärkt wurde. Für diese Studie wurde ein neuer "Index der Pressefreiheit" entwickelt, der zusätzlich zu den rechtlichen und wirtschaftlichen Rahmenbedingungen und der journalistischen Freiheit auch die Vielfalt der Berichterstattung und den Grad der Partizipation berücksichtigt." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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