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Benchmarking Public Demand: Russia's Appetite for Internet Control

Erik C. Nisbet

Philadelphia, PA: Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS);Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM) (2015), 26 pp.

"Almost half (49%) of all Russians believe that information on the Internet needs to be censored; a plurality (42%) of Russians believe foreign countries are using the Internet against Russia and its interests. About one-quarter of Russians think the Internet threatens political stability (24%); abo ... more

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The Trust Factor: An EJN Review of Journalism and Self-Regulation
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Aidan White (ed.)

London: Ethical Journalism Network (EJN) (2015), 72 pp.

"This report examines self-regulation in challenging times. Journalism is increasingly a single stream of information disseminated simultaneously across different platforms of media, but its regulation remains dominated by old-fashioned notions of how media work. Usually there are two ways of regula ... more

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Digital, Social & Mobile in 2015: We Are Social's Compendium of Global Digital Statistics

Simon Kemp

Singapore: We Are Social (2015), 372 slides

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Employment Conditions of Journalists in Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia - Regional Report

Radomir Cholakov

Bucureçti (RO): Center for Independent Journalism;South-East European Partnership for Media Development (2015), 23 pp.

"A crowded and rather poor media market, unable to secure the sustainability of media operations, a high level of job insecurity making the journalists vulnerable to political and economic pressures and – more often than not – leading to self-censorship – are some of the conclusions [...] The ... more

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Media Sustainability Index 2015: The Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Europe and Eurasia

Leon Morse (ed.)

Washington, DC: IREX (2015), xxii, 323 pp.

"Results of the 2015 MSI study for Europe & Eurasia (E&E) at first glance show encouraging results: the average of 21 overall country scores increased by 0.04 compared with last year, representing the highest average of overall scores so far this decade. Out of 21 countries studied, seven increased ... more

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State-Media Financial Relations in Macedonia: Media Freedom Curbed with Public Money

Vesna Nikodinoska, Ljubica Grozdanovska-Dimiskovska

Ljubljana: Peace Institute;South East European Media Observatory (2015), 19 pp.

"The government has developed various mechanisms for creating financial dependence on the part of the media, at both the national and the regional level. Owing to these financial relations, the media outlets become servile to the government, thereby seriously undermining own professional integrity a ... more

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Media Ownership and Finances in Kosovo: Legal Vacuum and Lack of Transparency

Isuf Berisha

Ljubljana: Peace Institute;South East European Media Observatory (2015), 23 pp.

"Media ownership and media financing, although both crucially influence the ability of the media in Kosovo to play democratic role and demonstrate integrity of their journalism and business operations, have not been properly addressed through the media legislation in Kosovo. Lack of transparency mad ... more

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State-Media Financial Relations in Albania: Nurturing Client-Based Media Practices

Ilda Londo

Ljubljana: Peace Institute;South East European Media Observatory (2015), 19 pp.

"The transparency of media market in Albania continues to be low, including both commercial operations and the state funding, despite of the existing databases. The involvement of new actors, such as advertising agencies, and sister companies of media outlets, makes it even more difficult to track s ... more

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State-Media Financial Relations in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Increasingly Dependent and Disciplined Media

Sanela Hodžic

Ljubljana: Peace Institute;South East European Media Observatory (2015), 20 pp.

"Particular political and business interests seem to overpower any notion of public interest in the financial relations between government and the media. The public interest that these financial patterns should in theory serve remains under-articulated and unmonitored with a lack of clear criteria, ... more

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State-Media Financial Relations in Serbia: A Transitional Year. Who Will Benefit from the Media Reforms?

Bojana Barlovac

Ljubljana: Peace Institute;South East European Media Observatory (2015), 15 pp.

"The outflow of money from state/public funds to the media has for years been unreasonable and non-transparent. Therefore, the ultimate goal of the ongoing media reforms is to introduce certain control and transparency through privatisation of state-owned media and introduce co-financing of media pr ... more

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Media Indicators 2015: A Thorough Study from a Journalists’ Point of View on Kosovo’s Media Freedom and Conditions

Civil Rights Defenders (2015), 56 pp.

"The main objective of the study was to determine and examine the perception of journalists in Kosovo on freedom of media, based on 27 indicators of the European Council. The analysis is categorized in six sectors, covering all areas of the study that pertain significant information on the perceptio ... more

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Media Pluralism and Diversity: Concepts, Risks and Global Trends

Peggy Valcke, Miklós Sükösd, Robert G. Picard (eds.)

London: Palgrave Macmillan (2015), xviii, 362 pp.

"Adopting a truly global, theoretical and multidisciplinary perspective, Media Pluralism and Diversity intends to advance our understanding of media pluralism across the globe. It compares metrics that have been developed in different parts of the world to assess levels of, or threats to, media plur ... more

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Baseline Assessment of the “Guidelines for EU Support to Media Freedom and Media Integrity in the Enlargement Countries 2014-20”

Pam van de Bunt, Davor Glavas, Tihomir Loza, Enton Dimni, Dijan Albayrak

European Commission;Particip (2015), 99, 173 pp.

"For this assessment more than 390 surveys were made in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey [...] In addition to the survey a further 150 in-depth interviews were held, complemented by a Focus Group in each country, which ... more

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Online Video Forecasts 2015

Anne Austin, Jonathan Barnard, Nicola Hutcheon

London: ZenithOptimedia (2015), 85 pp.

"This report gives forecasts for online video spend and consumption, where available, for 40 markets in which online video is at varying stages of development. From markets such as Singapore, where 85% of the population claims to access online video (according to GlobalWebIndex, 2014), to countries ... more

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Reflections on Media Education Futures: Contributions to the Conference Media Education Futures in Tampere, Finland 2014
Inspiring Practice

Sirkku Kotilainen, Reijo Kupiainen (eds.)

Göteborg: Nordicom (2015), 301 pp.

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Media and Information Literacy for the Sustainable Development Goals

Jagtar Singh, Alton Grizzle, Sin Joan Yee, Sherri Hope Culver (eds.)

Göteborg: Nordicom;International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media (2015), 334 pp.

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Study of Media Development's Condition in Ukraine. Audience: General Public

Internews;InMind (2015), 63 pp.

"TV remains the main news source for the majority of population – 85% of respondents say they have watched TV news during last 30 days. For the last year TV audience has slightly decreased (-8%), and, though in general other sources of information are much less popular, for people under age of 35 ... more

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Stifling the Public Sphere: Media and Civil Society in Egypt, Russia and Vietnam

Zachary Abuza, Sherif Mansour, Maria Snegovaya

Washington, DC: National Endowment for Democracy (NED);International Forum for Democratic Studies (2015), 57 pp.

"The three case studies depict a range of repressive efforts that are calibrated to achieve particular ends. Sometimes, the authorities choose to co-opt independent voices. In other instances, the regime may create new government-backed versions of media initiatives or civic organizations which mimi ... more

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Stifling the Public Sphere: Media and Civil Society in Russia

Maria Snegovaya

Washington, DC: National Endowment for Democracy (NED);International Forum for Democratic Studies (2015), 12 pp.

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Bringing Plurality and Balance to the Russian Language Media Space: Feasibility Study on Russian Language Media Initiatives (RLMIs) in the Eastern Partnership and Beyond. Summary and Recommendations

European Endowment for Democracy (EED) (2015), 5 pp.

"Recommendations revolve around five building blocks of a co-ordinated strategy that calls for: 1. A regional news hub for the Russian language that embodies the values of fairness, accuracy and watchdog reporting, and builds a network of partners to leverage high-quality news content to wider audie ... more

The Trust Factor: An EJN Review of Journalism and Self-Regulation Top Insights

Reflections on Media Education Futures: Contributions to the Conference Media Education Futures in Tampere, Finland 2014 Inspiring Practice

The Trust Factor: An EJN Review of Journalism and Self-Regulation
Top Insights

Reflections on Media Education Futures: Contributions to the Conference Media Education Futures in Tampere, Finland 2014
Inspiring Practice