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Attacks on the Press: Journalism on the World's Front Lines

Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) (ed.)

Wiley;Bloomberg Press (2013), 304 pp.

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Mapping Digital Media: Estonia

Urmas Loit, Andra Siibak

London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2013), 84 pp.

"Estonians have demonstrated a keen appetite for digital media uptake. More than three-quarters of the population accesses the internet regularly, and more than half of those are active on social networking platforms. Recent surveys suggest that nearly a quarter of internet users now connect via sma ... more

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Media Reforms in Turbulent Times: The Role of Media Assistance in the Establishment of Independent Media Institutions in Serbia

Davor Marko

Sarajevo: Analitika – Center for Social Research (2013), 60 pp.

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Looking for Shortcuts? Assistance to – and Development of – Public Service Broadcasting in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Albania

Mark Thompson

Sarajevo: Analitika – Center for Social Research (2013), 31 pp.

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Limited Assistance for Limited Impact: International Media Assistance in Albania

Ilda Londo

Sarajevo: Analitika – Center for Social Research (2013), 62 pp.

"Overall, international media assistance has been very important in shaping the current media landscape, though it has by no means been the decisive factor. The complete legal reform in the media and establishment of its main institutions has seen the continuous involvement of international actors. ... more

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Why do pluralistic media systems emerge? Comparing media change in the Czech Republic and in Russia after the collapse of communism

Florian Toepfl

Global Media and Communication, volume 9, issue 3 (2013), pp. 239-256

"A quarter of a century after the collapse of communism in the former Eastern bloc, a wide range of scholarly projects have been undertaken to compare and theorize processes of media change in the region. One question that scholars have sought to address is: what were the factors that crucially impa ... more

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The Consolidation Challenge: Strengthening the Independence of Media Institutions in Kosovo

Naser Miftari

Prishtina: Democracy for Development (D4D) (2013), 24 pp.

"This policy brief builds upon the findings of a research report that looked specifically on the ways in which three media institutions - Independent Media Commission (IMC); Radio Television of Kosovo (RTK) and the Press Council of Kosovo (PCK) – established in the aftermath of conflict with consi ... more

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Can the Church Use Media Communication Channels? Inherent Features of Media Communication Channels Relative to Religious Messages in the Media

Terézia Roncáková

Central European Journal of Communication, volume 6, issue 1 (2013), pp. 66-89

"The present study is part of a complex research of media language to spread religious messages. It deals with the nature of the communication channel of the mass-media. It is based on the qulitative research carried out especially by means of the methods of focus groups and Delphi Techniques. Start ... more

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Religious Broadcasting as Public Service

Imrich Jenca, Zdenka Sekerešova, Helena Zárubová

European Journal of Science and Theology, volume 9, issue 6 (2013), pp. 61-70

"Religious broadcasting represents one of the basic elements of the public service broadcasting (broadcasting for the public benefit). It serves various public needs and purposes - according to the ritual model of communication it serves the intermediary function (it allows to participate in the lit ... more

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Publishing and Bookselling in Ukraine: Facts, Trends, Recommendations. Results of a Survey Carried Out in 2012-2013

Angela Rodel (ed.)

Next Page Foundation (2013), 52 pp.

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Assisting Media Democratization After Low-Intensity Conflict: The Case of Macedonia

Tamara Dimitrijevska-Markoski, Zhidas Daskalovski

Sarajevo; Skopje: Analitika – Center for Social Research;Center for Research and Policy Making (CRPM) (2013), 59 pp.

"Bearing in mind the political and economic circumstances in the early stages of development of a democratic Macedonia, international donors played an important role in providing a vibrant media landscape including legal framework and relevant institutions. Donors in Macedonia engaged in a number of ... more

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Starting from Scratch: The Role of Media Assistance in the Establishment of Independent Media Institutions in Kosovo

Naser Miftari

Sarajevo: Analitika – Center for Social Research (2013), 59 pp.

"In conclusion, it should be reiterated that the use of the Western liberal media models as a guiding model for the media set up in Kosovo might have been too ambitious a goal. It gave too much credit to the cultural ethos at the time, assuming it to be an environment in which a liberal media sector ... more

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Soft Censorship: Strangling Serbia’s Media

Jovanka Matic

Paris: World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) (2013), 29 pp.

"The mechanisms of state media funding in Serbia are used as indirect, and usually not easily visible, “soft censorship.” Soft censorship is used to promote positive coverage of - and to punish media outlets that criticize - officials or their actions. State funding of media is unregulated, unmo ... more

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"Capacity Development for the Association of Journalists of Kosovo" Project: Final Evaluation Report

Hajrulla Ceku

UNDP Kosovo (2013), 16 pp.

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Deutsche Förderprogramme für Journalistinnen und Journalisten aus Osteuropa: Eine Bestandsaufnahme und Evaluation

Edith Spielhagen

Berlin: Internationales Journalisten-Kolleg, Freie Universität Berlin (2013), 53 pp.

"Medienförderung für Osteuropa spielt in Deutschland seit dem Beginn der 1990er Jahre eine wichtige Rolle. Eine Vielzahl an Akteuren ist im Bereich der Aus- und Weiterbildung für osteuropäische Journalistinnen und Journalisten aktiv [...] Der Schwerpunkt der Programmbeteiligung liegt bei jungen ... more

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The Continued Relevance of the Concept of Propaganda: Propaganda as Ritual in Contemporary Hungary

Péter Bajomi-Lázár

Global Media and Communication, volume 9, issue 3 (2013), pp. 219-237

"We will, in this paper, argue that the concept of propaganda is still relevant in the context of post-communist Hungary. More particularly, we will suggest that, in contrast to the period 1998-2010 when modern political marketing methods were applied widely, the political campaigns launched under V ... more

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Balkan Media Barometer: Albania

Remzi Lani (ed.)

Tirana: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2013), 64 pp.

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Peace Through Peace Media? The Media Activities of the International Missions (KFOR and UNMIK) and Their Contribution to Peacebuilding in Kosovo from 1999 Till 2008

Julia Egleder

Berlin: Lit (2013), xvii, 317 pp.

"How does media contribute to peacebuilding and reconciliation in a post-conflict environment? This question will be answered in respect to the media produced by the UN and NATO mission in Kosovo (UNMIK and KFOR) from the year 1999 until 2008. The theoretical part of the text will deal with existing ... more

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Analysing How Law Shapes Journalism in Central and Eastern Europe: The Case of the 2008 Slovak Press Act

Nikola Belakova

Global Media and Communication, volume 9, issue 3 (2013), pp. 197-217

"This article investigates the operation of the contested reply and correction provisions of the 2008 Slovak Press Act and their influence on journalism. I argue that apart from the ‘law-on-the-books’, we need to examine the interactions between the media, policymakers and judges in order to exp ... more

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Capturing Them Softly: Soft Censorship and State Capture in Hungarian Media

Paris: World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) (2013), 51 pp.

"State capture is slowly but surely enveloping Hungarian media, principally through the “soft censorship” of financial incentives and influence that affect media otlets’ editorial content and economic viability. Allocation of state advertising spending is opaque and unfair; it is based on the ... more