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Media Trust in the Western Balkans: Together Apart. Regional Overview
Ljubljana: Peace Institute;South East European Network for Professionalization of Media (SEENPM) (2021), 34 pp.
"Trust in the media varies across the region, with citizens in BiH, Serbia and North Macedonia divided in around half of those that trust and half of those that distrust the media, and a higher number of citizens in Kosovo, Montenegro and Albania having trust in the media. The highest trust is expre
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Tackling Kremlin's Media Capture in Southeast Europe: Shared Patterns, Specific Vulnerabilities and Responses to Russian Disinformation
Top Insights
Sofia: Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD) (2021), 124 pp.
"The current report illuminates the scope, means, and reach of Russia’s sharp power influence through the phenomenon of media capture. It traces the regime’s malign impact on good governance and democratic development in eight Southeast European countries (EU members: Bulgaria and Croatia, as we
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Up in the Air? The Future of Public Service Media in the Western Balkans
Central European University Press (2021), vi, 300 pp.
"The agenda for transition after the demise of communism in the Western Balkans made the conversion of state radio and television into public service broadcasters a priority, converting mouthpieces of the regime into public forums in which various interests and standpoints could be shared and delibe
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Online Intimidation: Controlling the Narrative in the Balkans. Annual Digital Rights Report 2021
Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) (2021), 64 pp.
"From August 2020 until August this summer, we recorded almost 800 cases of digital rights violations in eight countries of south-eastern Europe: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Hungary, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania and Serbia. Violations took place not just on TikTok, but also on F
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Media Freedom in the Western Balkans
Aspen Insitute Germany (2021), 45 pp.
Gender and the Media in the Western Balkans
Brighton, UK: Institute of Development Studies (IDS) (2020), 42 pp.
"This rapid literature review explores the role that media in the Western Balkans plays in issues of gender (in)equality. The countries discussed are Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Croatia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia [...] While there is a body of literature that discusses a
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Mapping Fake News and Disinformation in the Western Balkans and Identifying Ways to Effectively Counter Them
European Parliament, Directorate General for External Policies of the Union (2020), 101 pp.
"Disinformation is an endemic and ubiquitous part of politics throughout the Western Balkans, without exception. A mapping of the disinformation and counter-dis in for mation landscapes in the region in the period from 2018 through 2020 reveals three key disinformation challenges: external challenge
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Situating Open Data: Global Trends in Local Contexts
Cape Town: African Minds (2020), xiii, 243 pp.
"This book provides empirical accounts to understand the situatedness of open data along the following themes: 1) open data practices; 2) the local implementation of global trends; and 3) open data ecosystems. Many chapters in this volume simultaneously address several of these themes. The thematic
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Sustainability of Professional Journalism in the Media Business Environment of the Western Balkans
European Union;TACSO 3 project;GDSI (2020), 54 pp.
"Independent media outlets in the Western Balkans are facing major challenges to their financial sustainability. With the exception of some of the largest broadcasters with national coverage and the most visited online media, the majority of media outlets across the region are not sustainable busine
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Media Incubator for the Western Balkans Pilot Project: Evaluation Report
Free Press Unlimited (2020), 67 pp.
Media Sustainability Index 2019: The Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Europe and Eurasia
Washington, DC: IREX (2019), xxi, 308 pp.
"The 2019 Europe and Eurasia Media Sustainability Index (MSI) saw another improvement in the combined average score for the 21 countries studied: In 2018, the combined average score was 1.84, and in 2019 this increased to 1.86. In comparison with the previous year’s study, there were modest gains
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Media Freedom and Responsibility
Balkan Perspectives, issue 13 (2019), 24 pp.
"In the western Balkans, where post-war societies are still trying to rebuild their lives, and tensions lie just below the surface, media messages influenced by the politics of the day are destabilizing. For some, this is poorly disguised propaganda, a kind of political “spin”, “spun” by man
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A Pillar of Democracy on Shaky Ground: Public Service Media in South East Europe
Top Insights
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS);Media Programme South East Europe (2019), vi, 236 pp.
"This book gives an overview of public service media in South East Europe; referring to the ten countries, which the Media Programme of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung covers. From Croatia to North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the Republic of Moldova, liberalised media markets have emerged following the c
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The Feasibility of a Public Service Orientation in the Western Balkans: Complications for a ‘networked Society’ in an Illiberal Context
In: Public Service Media in the Networked Society
Gregory Ferrell Lowe; Hilde van den Bulck; Karen Donders (eds.)
Göteborg: Nordicom (2018), pp. 125-141
"This chapter analyses contextual factors that are common to the seven countries of this region that affect developing a genuine public service orientation in media policies and performance. By better understanding historical legacies, inadequate technological development and late entry into digital
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Media Constrained by Context: International Assistance and the Transition to Democratic Media in the Western Balkans
Top Insights
Budapest: Central European University Press (2018), xiii, 346 pp.
"This books draws a comparative balance of twenty years' international media assistance in the five countries of the Western Balkans. The central question was what happens to imported models when they are transposed onto the newly evolving media systems of transitional societies. Albania, Bosnia-Her
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Media Sustainability Index 2018: The Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Europe and Eurasia
Washington, DC: IREX (2018), xx, 314 pp.
"Macedonia and Montenegro saw the largest overall score increases this year, in comparison to 2017. The improvement across all objectives this year for Macedonia’s media sector can be attributed to political changes that prioritize media in democratic reforms. Although Montenegro’s score improve
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Training journalists in times of transition: The case of Kosovo
Journalism Education, volume 6, issue 2 (2017), pp. 37-47
"With Kosovo as its case, this article explores the context and challenges of journalism education in transition societies. Journalists in Kosovo have lived through constant changes from authoritarian to democracy. In this struggle, journalism education has never been stable and steady. The past con
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New Roles for Media in the Western Balkans: A Study of Transitional Journalism
Journalism Studies, volume 18, issue 5 (2017), pp. 614-628
"This article analyzes how journalists in the Western Balkans consider the roles of journalism in times of transitions in the region. Findings from the Worlds of Journalism (WJS) study reveal that journalists and editors in the Western Balkans perceive their roles to be broader than those in traditi
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Public Services Without a Public? How Public Service Broadcasters in the Western Balkans Interact with Their Audiences
IC: Revista Científica de Información y Comunicación, volume 14 (2017), pp. 217-242
"Struggling to cope with structural societal changes, digitalized news production, and the modified habits of fragmented media publics, public service broadcasters are expected to redefine the logic of their operations in order to regain the trust of citizens and engage them. This paper looks at how
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Media, Propaganda and the Politics of Intervention
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2017), xiv, 276 pp.
"Building on critical theory, most notably Herman and Chomsky's Propaganda Model, Florian Zollmann's pioneering study brings propaganda back to the forefront of the debate. On the basis of a forensic examination of 1,911 newspaper articles, Zollmann investigates US, UK and German media reporting of
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