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Der Kreml auf allen Kanälen: Wie der russische Staat das Fernsehen lenkt
Berlin: Reporter ohne Grenzen (2013), 47 pp.
"Das Fernsehen ist für die Menschen in Russland die wichtigste politische Informationsquelle. Nach einer kurzen Periode der Freiheit Anfang der 1990er Jahre ist es erneut zum zentralen Pfeiler geworden, auf den die Staatsorgane ihre Macht stützen. Die drei größten Kanäle Perwyj Kanal, Rossija u
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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
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Buying Compliance: Governmental Advertising and Soft Censorship in Mexico
Paris: World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) (2013), 47 pp.
"This report demonstrates the soft censorship and corrupting influence that unconstrained official advertising exerts on Mexico’s media. These practices negatively impact media quality, limit freedom of expression, violate the right to public information, and stifle public debate that is essential
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The Long Shadow of Chinese Censorship: How the Communist Party’s Media Restrictions Affect News Outlets Around the World
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2013), 67 pp.
"This report focuses on six types of media outlets based outside mainland China that together reach news consumers in dozens of countries: major international media; local outlets in Asia, Africa, and Latin America; mainstream media in Hong Kong and Taiwan; exile Chinese outlets providing uncensored
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Soft Censorship: Strangling Serbia’s Media
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
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Calling the Shots: How Ownership Structures Affect the Independence of News Media
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2012), 35 pp.
"At an international level, the media development community should advocate for standards governing media cross-ownership limitations, best practices in media licensing, and the licensing of the broadcast spectrum. States should adopt net neutrality and support increased uncensored access to social
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The Globalization of Chinese Television: The Role of the Party-State
International Communication Gazette, volume 73, issue 7 (2011), pp. 573-594
"China’s television sector has undergone rapid transformation since the country’s reform and opening-up in the late 1970s. This article presents the main results of a recently completed PhD project, aiming to understand the role of the Chinese party-state in this transformation. The project supp
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Media Manipulation and Political Control in Russia
London: Chatham House (2009), 16 pp.
You Call This a Media Market? The Role of the State in the Media Sector in Slovenia
Ljubljana: Peace Institute (2008), 200 pp.
Chichapolitik: La prensa con Fujimori en las elecciones generales 2000 en el Perú
Lima: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2000), 239 pp.
"En este trabajo han sido señalados aspectos puntuales que muestran el deterioro de la posición de los medios de comunicación frente a las esferas de decisión política ligadas al oficialismo [gubernamental]. La posibilidad de informar pluralmente es viable cuando las condiciones económicas, ju
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