"This report represents the first attempt by a nongovernmental organisation (NGO) to appraise the media-development work of OSCE in the field. It is the outcome of a project designed by Press Now, an NGO based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. For the past decade, Press Now has assisted media in the co
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untries of the Balkans and Eastern Europe, working with funds from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture a nd Science, and the European Agency for Reconstruction, as well as from other governments and private donors. With its experience of cooperating with many OSCE field missions and offices, Press Now believes that the importance of the OSCE’s activities in media development merit this methodical survey. Despite many differences in mandate, resources and context, the OSCE operations analysed in this report reveal a number of distinctive achievements and patterns. Unless these patterns are more widely discussed, there is a risk that the OSCE will not draw the lessons that are offered by its own experience. Press Now hopes that this report will help to catalyse such discussion." (Preface, page 5)
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"In these two volumes, readers will find comparative, in-depth essays on the press systems of 232 countries and/or territories. World Press Encyclopedia (WPE) is unique and valuable to users because, in addition to essays on each country’s press system, WPE also contains custommade graphs and stat
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istical tables, as well as regional maps, useful appendices, and an extensive index. This comprehensive, authoritative source of information allows for easy comparison between essays with a standard format or set of “rubrics” used whenever possible (see section titled “Essay Components”). Each essay also features basic data information—such as official country name, literacy rate, language(s), and number of daily newspapers—clearly marked with headings at the beginning of each entry. Additionally, WPE’s contributors include scholars, professionals, and educators from across the United States and around the world; each essay has a byline. Although this is the second edition, WPE has been completely reconceptualized and 100 percent revised from the first edition, which was published in 1982." (Introduction)
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"In diesem Buch geht es um Missbrauch des journalistischen Prestiges, um die vielen Fälle, in denen sich die Auslandsberichterstattung zum Komplizen politischer und sonstiger Mächte degradieren lässt. Ein Beispiel: Reporter der 'Bild am Sonntag' besuchten 1978, zur Zeit der argentinischen Militä
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rdiktatur, das Gefängnis von La Plata; Reporter von 'Konkret' schrieben 1982 über ihren Besuch im Teheraner Evin-Gefängnis, eine der Haupt-Foltereinrichtungen des Landes. Diese beiden Reportagen ähneln sich streckenweise bis ins Detail: die Gefangenen sind keine politischen Gefangenen, sondern Terroristen, die oftmals aus purem Spaß an der Gewalt vornehmlich Frauen und Kinder in die Luft gesprengt hatten; sie werden von gutmütigem Personal aufs Beste betreut; Versorgung und Freizeitangebote lassen eher an luxuriöse Erholungsheime als an Strafanstalten denken." (commbox)
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