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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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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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Bulgarians Feel Badly Informed by Media and Politicians

Christian Spahr
Sofia: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS), Media Program South East Europe (2015), 4 pp.
"59 percent of the population of Bulgaria do not consider the media to be independent. Many are undecided and only 17 percent believe reporting is free. The crisis of confidence in the media is continuing, according to a study on behalf of the KAS Media Program South East Europe. Citizens also feel ... more
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Catholic Communities Online

Miriam Díez Bosch, Josep Lluis Micó, Josep Maria Carbonell (eds.)
Barcelona: Universitat Ramon Llull, Facultat de Comunicació i Relacions Internacionals Blanquerna (2015), 109 pp.
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Moving Stories: International Review of How Media Cover Migration
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Aidan White (ed.)
London: Ethical Journalism Network (EJN) (2015), 106 pp.
"We asked writers and researchers to examine the quality of coverage and to highlight reporting problems as well as good work. The conclusions from many different parts of the world are remarkably similar: journalism under pressure from a weakening media economy; political bias and opportunism that ... more
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Untold Stories: How Corruption and Conflicts of Interest Stalk the Newsroom
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London: Ethical Journalism Network (EJN) (2015), v, 82 pp.
"This report, which has been produced by a group of distinguished journalists and their supporters, examines the broad scope of the crisis. It covers countries where media are on the frontline of tough political battles, such as Egypt and Turkey. In Ukraine, for instance, the practice of paid-for jo ... more
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Trapped in a Propaganda War. Abandoned. Frustrated. Stigmatized: Understanding Information and Communication Needs Among IDPs in Eastern Ukraine

Jacobo Quintanilla, Oksana Parafeniuk, Vitaliy Moroz
Arcata, Calif.; Washington, DC: Internews (2015), 20 pp.
"As information among internally displaced people (IDPs) spreads mostly through word-of-mouth and social media, rumors and misinformation are rife. Citizens in eastern Ukraine have low trust in traditional media, and Ukrainian TV is largely not perceived as a credible source of information. IDPs do ... more
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Preventive Journalism as a Means of Controlling Regional Media in Russia

Elina Erzikova
Global Media and Communication, volume 10, issue 1 (2014), pp. 35-52
"This article utilizes new institutional theory and its principle – coercive isomorphism – to examine explicit and implicit pressures exerted on news organizations by a regional government in Russia in 2009 and 2010. The study found that while empowering regional reporters by the myth of helping ... more
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Religious Impact on Journalistic Cultures: Reading Materials

Victor M. Khroul (ed.)
Moscow: Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Journalism (2014), 188 pp.
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Contemporary Media Use in Russia

Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG); Gallup (2014), 40 slides
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The European Union's Rights-Based Support to the Media in the Enlargement Countries: With Special Attention to Turkey

Tolga Yazici, Sahin Karasar
International Journal of Arts and Commerce, volume 3, issue 7 (2014), pp. 12-24
"The European Union's dedication to freedom the media is articulated in different parts of its acquis and the European Union supports media freedom by funding member counties and enlargement countries. This study underlines the freedom of expression as a fundamental human right before the European U ... more
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Digital Russia: The language, culture and politics of new media communication

Michael S. Gorham, Ingunn Lunde, Martin Paulsen (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2014), xix, 292 pp.
"Digital Russia provides a comprehensive analysis of the ways in which new media technologies have shaped language and communication in contemporary Russia. It traces the development of the Russian-language internet, explores the evolution of web-based communication practices, showing how they have ... more
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From Secrecy to Common Knowledge: The Right to Information in Serbia and Bulgaria

Christian Spahr
KAS International Reports, issue 4 (2014), pp. 8-22
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Feminist Publicist Strategies: Women's NGOs' Media Activism and Television Journalism in Serbia and Croatia

Danica Minic
Media, Culture & Society, volume 36, issue 2 (2014), pp. 133-149
"This article defines feminist media activism in terms of counter-public communication and provides a brief overview of activities, functions, types of activists and historical contexts relevant to this kind of feminist activism. Following this research approach, it then examines the specific cases ... more
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Nationale Identität als Medieninhalt: Theoretische Konzeption und empirische Messung am Beispiel Bulgariens

Gergana Baeva
Baden-Baden: Nomos (2014), 341 pp.
"Die Studie behandelt nationale Identität als eine mediale Konstruktion und verfolgt dabei drei Ziele. Es wird ein Identitätsbegriff gesucht, der die Mikro- und Makroebene der Identitätsbildung sinnvoll miteinander verbindet. Darauf aufbauend wird eine Methode entwickelt, um nationale Identität ... more
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Belarus: Time for Media Reform. Policy Paper on Media Freedom in Belarus

Andrei Aliaksandrau, Andrei Bastunets
Index on Censorship; Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ) (2014), 27 pp.
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Hate Speech in Online Media in South East Europe

Remzi Lani (ed.)
Tirana: Albanian Media Institute (2014), 199 pp.
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The Transparency of Media Ownership in the European Union and Neighbouring States

Rachael Craufurd Smith, Yolande Stolte
Access Info Europe; Open Society Program on Independent Journalism (2014), 28 pp.
"Despite the importance of media ownership transparency for both the individual and the state, only two of the surveyed countries—Italy and Romania—address media transparency directly in their constitutions but in both cases the focus is on transparency of fi nancial sources not ownership. In th ... more
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Net Children Go Mobile: Final Report

Giovanna Mascheroni, Andrea Cuman
Milano: Educatt (2014), 50 pp.
This report is based on a quantitative study of 3500 children, aged from 9 to 16 years in seven countries, and a qualitative study with 327 children and 230 adults (parents, teachers and educators) in nine European countries (Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Spain ... more