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Employment Conditions of Journalists in Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia - Regional Report
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
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A Difficult Profession: Media Freedom Under Attack in the Western Balkans
Human Rights Watch (2015), 69 pp.
"Based on 86 in-depth interviews with journalists, editors and media owners, this report documents the hostile environment in which journalists work in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Kosovo, Montenegro, and Serbia. Journalists and editors interviewed for this report described a difficult media space
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Medien, Geld und Freiheit
Religion & Gesellschaft in Ost und West, volume 43, issue 10 (2015), pp. 1-27
"Das Fazit der Beiträge in diesem Heft bringt Snežana Milivojevic nüchtern auf den Punkt: „Der Glaube, dass ein freier Markt gleichbedeutend mit freien Medien ist, hat sich in den Transformationsländern als Illusion erwiesen.“ Die größte Gefahr für unabhängigen Journalismus liegt dort ni
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Media Reform Stalled in the Slow Lane: Soft Censorship in Serbia
Paris: WAN-IFRA, updated ed. (2015), 17 pp.
Media Sustainability Index 2015: The Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Europe and Eurasia
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
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State-Media Financial Relations in Serbia: A Transitional Year. Who Will Benefit from the Media Reforms?
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
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Windows of Opportunity: The Transformation of State Media to Public Service Media in Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Moldova and Serbia
Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 4, issue 2 (2014), 30 pp.
"The transformation of state media to public service media (PSM) is one of the most ambitious endeavors in the field of media development. Not many efforts to free the national media from government control have succeeded in the past decades. In this paper the comparatively promising cases of Kyrgyz
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From Secrecy to Common Knowledge: The Right to Information in Serbia and Bulgaria
KAS International Reports, issue 4 (2014), pp. 8-22
Feminist Publicist Strategies: Women's NGOs' Media Activism and Television Journalism in Serbia and Croatia
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
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Global Information Society Watch 2014: Communications Surveillance in the Digital Age
Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Hivos (2014), 283 pp.
"This Global Information Society Watch tracks the state of communications surveillance in 57 countries across the world – countries as diverse as Hungary, India, Argentina, The Gambia, Lebanon and the United Kingdom. Each country report approaches the issue from a different perspective. Some analy
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Hate Speech in Online Media in South East Europe
Tirana: Albanian Media Institute (2014), 199 pp.
Journalistic Education in South East Europe
Sofia: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS), Media Program South East Europe (2014), 51 pp.
"A disadvantage that is present in all countries is the insufficient cooperation between the universities and media outlets. There are not enough internships available. Besides that, it should be mentioned that many students continue to work at a media outlet where they did their internship and ther
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International Assistance and Media Democratization in the Western Balkans: A Cross-National Comparison
Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 4, issue 2 (2014), 29 pp.
"This article explores the nexus between the democratic transformation of the media and international media assistance (IMA) as constrained by the local political conditions in the five countries of the Western Balkans. It aims to enhance the understanding of conditions and factors that influence me
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Freedom of the Media in the Western Balkans
Brussels: European Union, Directorate-General for External Policies of the Union, Policy Department (2014), 88 pp.
"The study analyses media freedom and pluralism in the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Serbia) in light of the EU enlargement policy. Despite the different stages of their EU accession paths, these countries share si
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Media Sustainability Index 2014: The Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Europe and Eurasia
Washington, DC: IREX (2014), xx, 307 pp.
"The 2014 MSI study for Europe & Eurasia is marked by an overall constancy of scores, for better or worse. Taken as a whole, the average of 21 overall scores shows an increase of 0.01 compared with last year. Out of the 21 countries studied, 13 showed a change in score of less than 0.10. Of the rema
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Media Assistance in Serbia: Achievements and Challenges
Sarajevo: Analitika – Center for Social Research (2014), 8 pp.
"While in 1990s media assistance efforts focused on ensuring the survival of independent media outlets under the authoritarian rule of the Miloševiæ regime, the scope of the assistance expanded after the regime collapsed in 2000, to address a range of issues, such as legal reforms, the establishme
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Video letters, mediation and (proper) distance: A qualitative study of international development communication in practice
Karlstad: Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Thesis (2014), 268 pp.
"This study focuses on the institutional practice of international development communication. Through a qualitative study of the Videoletters project, it examines a situated process of intervention in its complexity and analyzes how the specifics of mediation illuminate issues of proximity and dista
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"This book is an attempt to address obstacles to a democratic development of media systems in the countries of South East Europe by mapping patterns of corrupt relations and practices in media policy development, media ownership and financing, public service broadcasting, and journalism as a profess
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