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Financial transparency of media 2023
Media Development Foundation (MDF);Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2024), 43 pp.
The role and accountability of the state as a news media owner in the contemporary media landscape
European Journal of Communication, volume 39, issue 5 (2024), pp. 486-497
"Drawing on critical capitalism theory and the social responsibility theory of media, this paper explores the role of the state as a news media owner in contemporary European media systems and the capitalist context. It focuses on accountability and the relationships between the state, state-owned m
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Guidelines for the Governance of Digital Platforms: Safeguarding Freedom of Expression and Access to Information Through a Multi-Stakeholder Approach
Paris: UNESCO (2023), 58 pp.
"The Guidelines outline a set of duties, responsibilities and roles for States, digital platforms, intergovernmental organizations, civil society, media, academia, the technical community and other stakeholders to enable the environment where freedom of expression and information are in the core of
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Decolonising Journalism Education in South Africa: Critical Perspectives
London, New York: Routledge (2023), xv, 271 pp.
"This volume responds to the great need to rethink journalism from various perspectives including journalism training, research, the contents of the news media, language, media ethics, the safety of journalists and gender inequities in the news media." (Publisher description)
The Global Handbook of Media Accountability
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London; New York: Routledge (2022), xviii, 614 pp.
"The Global Handbook of Media Accountability brings together leading scholars to 'de-Westernize' the academic debate on media accountability and discuss different models of media self-regulation and newsroom transparency around the globe. With examination of the status quo of media accountability in
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Indicadores para evaluar la rendición de cuentas en los medios de comunicación
Cuadernos.info, issue 51 (2022), pp. 1-27
"Esta investigación tiene como objetivo determinar indicadores clave para evaluar la capacidad de transparencia, autorregulación y participación de los usuarios, las tres dimensiones de la accountability. Se adoptó un triple punto de partida metodológico: revisión sistemática de literatura so
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Iniciativas de institucionalidad para la transparencia y rendición de cuentas de las grandes plataformas digitales
Paris: UNESCO (2022), 37 pp.
"Este informe elaborado por el Instituto de Desarrollo Digital de América Latina y el Caribe (IDD LAC) describe y analiza diversos modelos e iniciativas (tanto estatales como de la sociedad civil) sobre formas de institucionalidad para la supervisión de obligaciones de transparencia y rendición d
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Media Accountability in Africa: A Study of Policies and Practices at Two Newsrooms in Kenya
Communicatio: South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research, volume 47, issue 1 (2021), pp. 42-59
"Media accountability has attracted the interest of journalism scholars, media managers and policy makers as the debate grows on how to ensure a free and accountable media. However, media accountability is rarely studied beyond the theoretical and academic debate, especially in many parts of Africa.
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Final Report
Aspen Institute (2021), 78 pp.
"This report is the culmination of an in-depth investigation aimed at better defining the causes and challenges of information disorder, and offering a viable framework for action [...] The Aspen Institute’s Commission on Information Disorder invited voices from across our society to help build up
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Media Accountability in the MENA Region: Pilot Study
Dortmund: Erich-Brost-Institut (2021), 173 pp.
Nigeria: Democratic press, authoritarian government?
In: The Global Handbook of Media Accountability
Susanne Fengler; Tobias Eberwein; Matthias Karmasin (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2021), pp. 324-334
"The Nigerian media scene is notably vibrant, which can be perceived as a democratization of communication and liberalization of the press where anyone with the means to own a media establishment can do so. Thus, the challenge with the Nigerian media is no longer the issue of access but, rather, tha
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Public Media Accountability: Media Journalism, Engaged Publics and Critical Media Literacy in the MENA
London: LSE Middle East Centre (2020), 22 pp.
"This study examines the ways in which Arab citizens, as media users, could be enabled to influence news media conduct and thus enhance media practicioners’ commitment toward ethical journalistic practices and standards, particularly accuracy, balance and fairness. It aims to explore the possibili
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Comunicação, media e indústrias criativas na era digital
Porto: Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Letras (2020), 416 pp.
Media Accountability and Journalists: To Whom Do Spanish Professionals Feel Responsible?
Journalism Practice, volume 14, issue 7 (2020), pp. 812-829
"This paper analyses to whom Spanish journalists feel responsible. To achieve this objective, we sent out a survey to Spanish journalists to ascertain their opinion on this question. The journalists’ point of view was then compared with that of the general public though six focus groups consisting
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Glasnost! Nine Ways Facebook Can Make Itself a Better Forum for Free Speech and Democracy
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2019), 27 pp.
"Following multiple controversies in the past two years, Facebook is seeking to implement much needed processes for self-regulation and governance to help regain the trust of the public, politicians, and regulatory authorities. Facebook has thus entered a new era of cautious glasnost, inviting resea
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Transparencia mediática, oligopolios y democracia: ¿Quién nos cuenta el cuento? Indicadores de rentabilidad social y políticas en radio y televisión: América Latina y Europa mediterránea
Salamanca: Comunicación Social (2019), 235 pp.
"Nos encontramos ante un hecho incuestionable: desde hace décadas el proceso de concentración mediática es la norma en los estados contemporáneos y el poder político se ve supeditado a las líneas editoriales de los oligopolios mediáticos que tratan de conducir y representar a la opinión púb
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Accountability in Journalism
In: Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Communication
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2019), 22 pp.
"In the past decade, academic and professional debates about media accountability have spread around the globe – but have done so in a fundamentally different framework. In many Western democracies, trust in media – along with trust in politics and trust in institutions – as eroded dramaticall
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The Effects of Journalistic Transparency on Credibility Assessments and Engagement Intentions
Journalism, volume 22, issue 4 (2019), pp. 901-918
"Transparency is an oft-cited remedy for the public’s lack of confidence in the news media. Yet scant empirical evidence exists to support this claim. This article presents a test of the relationship between increased journalistic transparency and credibility evaluations of a news organization. Ex
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Journalists as Victims and Perpetrators of Violence
In: News of Baltimore: Race, Rage and the City
Linda Steiner; Silvio Waisbord (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2017), 17 pp.
"This chapter explores the complicated ways in which journalists became subjects within the stories of Ferguson and Baltimore through a particular focus on the discursive identification of journalists as either victims or perpetrators of violence. It focuses on two evaluative frameworks: journalists
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Meinung, Macht, Manipulation: Journalismus auf dem Prüfstand
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2017), 233 pp.
