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Mediensysteme im internationalen Vergleich
Konstanz: UVK, 2nd ed. (2013), 378 pp.
"Das in zweiter Auflage überarbeitete Lehrbuch führt konsistent und verständlich in Theorie, Methodik und Gegenstandsbereiche der international vergleichenden Mediensystemforschung ein. Es macht mit deren Fragestellungen vertraut und arbeitet die für den Vergleich relevanten Strukturelemente her
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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
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
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Explaining Journalists' Trust in Public Institutions Across 20 Countries: Media Freedom, Corruption, and Ownership Matter Most
Journal of Communication, volume 62, issue 5 (2012), pp. 794-814
"Building on the assumption that journalists' attitudes toward public institutions can contribute to a decline in public trust, this article sets out to identify the driving forces behind journalists' confidence in public institutions. Based on interviews with 2000 journalists from 20 countries, var
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The Three Alternative Journalisms of Africa
International Communication Gazette, volume 74, issue 7 (2012), pp. 636-654
"Much African journalism scholarship has had a critical stand towards ‘Western’ journalism models. The criticism has resulted in the submission of alternative African journalism models such as ujamaa journalism, ubuntu journalism and oral discourse journalism. The present article reviews a numbe
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Comparing Journalism Cultures
Comparing Journalism Cultures in Latin America: The Case of Chile, Brazil and Mexico
International Communication Gazette, volume 74, issue 1 (2012), pp. 60-77
"Based on interviews with 300 journalists in Chile, Brazil and Mexico, this article describes similarities and differences in their professional cultures. Two competing conceptual explanations are tested: the dominance of political structures, levels of press freedom and the size and concentration o
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Teaching Journalism or Teaching African Journalism? Experiences from Foreign Involvement in a Journalism Programme in Ethiopia
Global Media Journal - African Edition, volume 5, issue 1 (2011), pp. 24-51
"Journalism programmes across the African continent have different attitudes to the issue of universal vs. local values in journalism. This article discusses the issue in light of a post-graduate journalism programme that opened at Addis Ababa University in 2004. In its 5-year implementation phase,
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Populist Disseminators, Detached Watchdogs, Critical Change Agents and Opportunist Facilitators: Professional Milieus, the Journalistic Field and Autonomy in 18 Countries
International Communication Gazette, volume 73, issue 6 (2011), pp. 477-494
"This article sets out to map the journalistic field as a space of struggle between distinct professional milieus. These milieus crystallize around journalists who share similar views on journalism’s function in society. By means of cluster analysis, four global professional milieus were extracted
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"This paper offers an overview of Bulgaria’s media landscape, putting it into its demographic, economic and political context. It gives a basic overview of the country’s media structure, including details on media markets; media regulation and regulatory authorities; and journalism culture." (Pa
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The Anthropology of News & Journalism: Global Perspectives
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2010), viii, 328 pp.
"The Anthropology of News and Journalism is the first book to explore the role of news and journalism in contemporary culture from an anthropological perspective—as a form of cultural meaning-making in its creation, content, and dissemination. Anthropology's global, comparative perspective and eth
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The concept of respect in African culture in the context of journalism practice: An Afrocentric intervention
Communicatio: South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research, volume 36, issue 3 (2010), pp. 343-358
"For decades, since the debate about the role of the media in post-colonial Africa emerged, a distorted interpretation of the meaning of ‘respect’ in the African cultural context has persisted in academic discourse to the present day. The distorted view suggests that according to traditional Afr
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