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Press Forward: A Guide for Local Funders

Sarah Gustavus Lim, Katie Hawkins-Gaar
Press Forward (2024), 23 pp.
"Press Forward aims to grow the overall investment in local news and strengthen communities across the country over the next five years by focusing on such shared values as equity, accessibility, collaboration and centering community needs. The vision of the founding coalition is to increase resourc ... more
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Enabling a Sustainable News Environment: A Framework for Media Finance Legislation
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Conny Moon Sehat, Amy Mitchell, Samuel Jens
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“We All Have Power”: Using Photovoice to Document Challenges and Strengths of Lakota Women With Histories of Incarceration

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The Routledge Handbook of Ecomedia Studies

Antonio Lopez, Adrian J. Ivakhiv, Stephen Rust, Miriam Tola, Alenda Y. Chang, Kiu-wai Chu (eds.)
New York; London: Routledge (2024), xxiii, 371 pp.
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Contesting personalized recommender systems: A cross-country analysis of user preferences

Christopher Starke, Ljubisa Metikos, Natali Helberger, Claes de Vreese
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Capturing News, Capturing Democracy: Trump and the Voice of America

Kate Wright, Martin Scott, Melanie Bunce
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Countering Xenophobic Frames and Contextualizing Coverage Through North-South Cooperation: Collaborative Investigative Journalism Across the U.S.-Mexico Border

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The Global Faith and Entertainment Study: A Study of Attitudes and Perceptions Regarding Faith and Religion in Entertainment

HarrisX; Faith & Media Initiative (2024), 25 pp.
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Reimagining Public Media: Strategic Leadership and Innovation in Local News

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Global Perspectives on Press Regulation. Volume 2: Asia, Africa, the Americas and Oceania

András Koltay, Paul Wragg
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USAID Digital Policy 2024-2034

USAID (2024), 46 pp.
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Political Technology: The Globalisation of Political Manipulation

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Digital Satire in Latin America: Online Video Humor as Hybrid Alternative Media

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“No One Is Going to Silence Me”: A Comparison of the Conditions for Press Freedom and Independent Journalism as a Prerequisite for Democracy in the United States, Sweden, and Egypt

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The Oxford Handbook of Digital Religion
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The geopolitics of human suffering: a comparative study of media coverage of the conflicts in Yemen and Ukraine

Jeffrey S. Bachman, Esther Brito Ruiz
Third World Quarterly, volume 45, issue 1 (2024), pp. 24-42
"A Saudi-led coalition of states initiated an on-going-armed conflict in Yemen on 26 March 2015. Meanwhile, Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022. Though no two armed conflicts are exactly alike, there is reason to compare US media coverage of the two because: (1) civilians have been victims of ... more