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State-Media Financial Relations in Macedonia: Media Freedom Curbed with Public Money
Ljubljana: Peace Institute; South East European Media Observatory (2015), 19 pp.
"The government has developed various mechanisms for creating financial dependence on the part of the media, at both the national and the regional level. Owing to these financial relations, the media outlets become servile to the government, thereby seriously undermining own professional integrity a
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Opfer der Geschäftswelt und politischer Interessen: Medien in Bosnien-Herzegowina
Religion & Gesellschaft in Ost und West, volume 43, issue 10 (2015), pp. 22-25
"Trotz der hohen Standards der Mediengesetze in Bosnien-Herzegowina hapert es bei deren Umsetzung. Medienschaffende sind häufig dem Druck von Politik, staatlichen Institutionen und einflussreichen Unternehmen ausgesetzt. Viele Medienunternehmen sind aufgrund ihrer desolaten Finanzlage zusätzlich f
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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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Kosovo: Setting Media Standards. Public Awareness and Effectiveness of the Independent Media Commission and the Press Council of Kosovo
Thomson Foundation (2015), 19 pp.
"Within a few short years, the Press Council of Kosovo (PCK) and the Independent Media Commission (IMC) have successfully established a model of media regulation and selfregulation familiar to Western democracies. This follows a historic period of state or partisan influence in print media and broad
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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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Voices of Freedom - Western Interference? 60 Years of Radio Free Europe
Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (2015), xii, 294 pp.
"International radio broadcasters took on a centrally important role during the Cold War. Founded at the beginning of the 1950s, Radio Free Europe (RFE) was to become both a political instrument for influencing public opinion and one of the few alternative sources of information for many people livi
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Media Ownership and Financing in Montenegro: Weak Regulation Enforcement and Persistence of Media Control
Ljubljana: Peace Institute; South East European Media Observatory (2015), 22 pp.
"Non-transparent ownership of media, particularly those financed by foreign capital, continues to burden Montenegrin media scene. Foreign media owners, as a rule, continue to support pro-government editorial policies. Their overall operations raise doubts of existence of clientelistic relations with
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Journalists' Perceptions of Nomenklatura Networks and Media Ownership in Post-Communist Bulgaria
Medijske Studije / Media Studies, volume 6, issue 11 (2015), pp. 19-33
"This article discusses the role of the former communist party elite (the nomenklatura) in the Bulgarian post-communist media landscape in relation to media ownership and the origin of media outlets’ capital. The spotlight is on Bulgarian journalists’ perceptions examined through semi-structured
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State-Media Financial Relations in Albania: Nurturing Client-Based Media Practices
Ljubljana: Peace Institute; South East European Media Observatory (2015), 19 pp.
"The transparency of media market in Albania continues to be low, including both commercial operations and the state funding, despite of the existing databases. The involvement of new actors, such as advertising agencies, and sister companies of media outlets, makes it even more difficult to track s
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State-Media Financial Relations in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Increasingly Dependent and Disciplined Media
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,
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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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Untold Stories: How Corruption and Conflicts of Interest Stalk the Newsroom
Deep Insights
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
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Bulgarians Feel Badly Informed by Media and Politicians
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
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Moving Stories: International Review of How Media Cover Migration
Deep Insights
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
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Understanding Socialist Television: Concepts, Objects, Methods
Journal of European Television History & Culture, volume 3, issue 5 (2014), pp. 7-16
"This article develops a number of conceptual and methodological proposals aimed at furthering a firmer agenda for the field of socialist television studies. It opens by addressing the issue of relevance of the field, identifying three critical contributions the study of socialist television can mak
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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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Curtailing Corruption: People Power for Accountability and Justice
Rienner (2014), vi, 325 pp.
"Campaigns and movements targeting corruption often face decentralized targets rather than an identifiable dictator or external government, and can be found both in undemocratic and democratic systems. Graft and abuse are manifested in a systemic manner rather than a hodgepodge collection of illicit
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