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Journalists in the midst of full-scale war: Report on Ukraine

Ievgeniia Oliinyk, Tetiana Gordiienko, Dariya Orlova et al.
Human Rights Platform; Solidarity Fund PL (2024), 80 pp.
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Russia's Information Warfare in the Middle East

Arik Segal
Potsdam: Friedrich Naumann Foundation (2024), 36 pp.
"This policy paper provides an overview of Russian information warfare in the Middle East. It includes a brief overview of Russian information warfare methods and Russian foreign policy in the Middle East. It then delves into Russian information warfare in the Middle East, evaluates its effectivenes ... more
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Mapping the Russian Media Field through Audience Networks and Agenda Choice

Alla Loseva, Anna Moroz, Egor Shmidt, Daniel Alexandrov,
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 1-26
"In light of the “gardening” of the public sphere in autocracies, the question of how power is distributed in the media field calls for empirical investigation. We use computational methods of network analysis, topic modeling, and semantic analysis to test if the Russian media landscape is organ ... more
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Local Journalism, Global Challenges: News Deserts, Infodemic and the Vastness in Between

Adriana Gonçalves, Carmen Neamtu, Chuchu Zhao et al.
Covilhã: LabCom; Beira Interior University (2024), 203 pp.
"[...] Pedro Jerónimo’s anthology addresses a highly relevant topic. It offers insights into the state of local media in countries where little research has been published to date. Of the eight contributions in the volume, four focus on Europe and Latin America (Romania, Portugal, Europe, and Bra ... more
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Russian Bans on ‘Fake News’ about the war in Ukraine: Conditional truth and unconditional loyalty

Elena Sherstoboeva
International Communication Gazette, volume 86, issue 1 (2024), pp. 36-54
"This article examines Russia’s practice of the ban introduced by the so-called ‘fake news laws’ during the war against Ukraine. It blends doctrinal legal with discourse analysis to study how and why Russian courts have applied the laws, which epistemology of knowledge they have constructed wh ... more
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Uncovering news deserts in Europe: Risks and opportunities for local and community media in the EU
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Sofia Verza, Tijana Blagojev, Danielle Borges, Jan Kermer, Matteo Trevisan, Urbano Reviglio (eds.)
San Domenico di Fiesole (Italy): European University Institute (2024), 224 pp.
"This research is focused on detecting challenges and opportunities for local and community media and identifying news deserts in the 27 EU Member States. It entails a holistic approach towards the concept of news desert, interpreting it as an area that is lacking sufficient, reliable and diverse in ... more
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Locking down the windows: A new phase in the fight for press freedom in Russia

Berlin: JX Fund (2024), 43 pp.
"For Russian civil society as well as for Western reporting independent exiled media are playing a central role: These media are a unique and precious voice that can still make its way to Russian audiences. They are also the foundation of Western reporting on Russia – without them, many internatio ... more
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Children and the Radio: Who Should Listen to Whom?

Alice Nemcova Tejkalova, Olga Gheorghiev, Marketa Supa, Victoria Nainova
Journalism Practice, volume 17, issue 8 (2024), pp. 1826-1844
"Understanding the expectations, needs, and wants of young audiences, as well as inviting them to incorporate their experiences and perspectives into media production, are crucial tasks for today’s media producers. Drawing upon qualitative research in which more than seventy children eight to thir ... more
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Pop-up-Propaganda: Epikrise der russischen Selbstvergiftung. Mit einem illustrierten "Ratgeber für das Überleben"

Irina Rastorgueva
Thomas Martin (Nachwort)
Berlin: Matthes & Seitz (2024), 337 pp.
"Während innerhalb Russlands das Verbot kritischer Medien und die Gleichschaltung der verstaatlichten Sender eine beinahe karikaturhafte Erzählung über traditionelle Werte und die Notwendigkeit der "Militärischen Spezialoperation" hervorbringen, arbeiten sorgfältig geplante Propagandaaktionen i ... more
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Two Years On: An Analysis of Russian State and Pro-Kremlin Information Warfare in the Context of the Invasion of Ukraine

London: Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) (2024), 25 pp.
"This report provides an overview of how Russian state and pro-Kremlin propaganda undermining international support for Ukraine has evolved over the two years since the beginning of the full-scale invasion on 24 February 2022. It outlines a range of semi-covert tactics through which Russian state an ... more
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What Can We Learn From the Short History of Independent Media in Serbia? Radio B92, George Soros, and New Models of Media Development

Janet Steele
International Journal of Press/Politics, volume 29, issue 3 (2024), pp. 646-666
"Radio B92 was an iconic independent media institution in Serbia. Founded in 1989, B92 provided Belgrade listeners with subversive rock music, high-quality journalism, and independent perspectives on politics in the former Yugoslavia. An early adapter to the internet, B92 has been credited with spar ... more
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Journalism as the Fourth Emergency Service: Trauma and Resilience
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Lisa Bradley, Emma Heywood (eds.)
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2024), xviii, 257 pp.
"Journalists have often been considered the "fourth emergency service". They are first on the scene, alongside paramedics, fi re and police, running towards danger rather than away, and providing independent, veritable and crucial information in the public interest. And yet, unlike frontline workers ... more
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Local media: Surviving and thriving in a news desert Lessons learned from Local Media for Democracy
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Iryna Vidanava, Clare Cook
Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS); Local Media for Democracy (LM4D) (2024), 59 pp.
"The Local Media for Democracy (LM4D) programme was conceived and designed to achieve exactly that: to recognise and strengthen local media operating in news deserts and to provide local communities with the timely, accurate, and relevant information they need to make informed decisions about what m ... more
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The Invisible Hand of Media Censorship in the Balkans: A Closer Look at Media Ownership in the Balkans and the European Media Freedom Act

Balkan Free Media Initiative (BFMI) (2024), 80 pp.
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Commercial Television as a Blind Spot in Emerging Media Systems: Romania and Bulgaria’s Cases

Madalina Bãlãescu, Vyara Angelova, Romina Surugiu
Media and Communication, volume 12, issue 7765 (2024), 20 pp.
"This study explores TV in Romania and Bulgaria, both considered "emerging" media systems in post-communist studies (Sparks, 1995). It uses Hallin and Mancini's (2004) framework to analyze the central aspects regarding the configuration of commercial TV. The study offers an institutional perspective ... more
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Full Night: The Best Romanian Internet Cafe

Ruxandra Mãrgineanu, Radu-Mihai Tãnasã
Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (2024), 28 pp.
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Die katholischen Ostkirchen: Herkunft - Geschichte - Gegenwart
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Christian Lange, Dietmar W. Winkler, Karl Pinggéra, Hacik R. Gazer (eds.)
Freiburg et al.: Herder (2024), 363 pp.
"Am 21. November 1964 wurde das Ostkirchendekret des Zweiten Vatikanischen Konzils, Orientalium Ecclesiarum, in Rom promulgiert. Mit ihm erfuhr das reiche ostkirchliche Erbe innerhalb der katholischen Kirche eine besondere Wertschätzung. Internationale Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler nehme ... more
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Challenges and Opportunities for Journalism in the Bulgarian COVID-19 Communication Ecology

Lada Trifonova Price, Vesislava Antonova
Journalism Practice, volume 18, issue 1 (2024), pp. 119-136
"The coronavirus pandemic brought immense challenges to journalists worldwide, including new threats to media freedom, journalism safety and practice. The impact of the pandemic on journalism is yet to be fully understood and examined but this paper contributes to the field by focusing on the impact ... more
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Les étudiants face à la guerre russe en Ukraine : Perception et interprétation des informations

Carole Grimaud
Paris: L'Harmattan (2024), 136 pp.
"Carole Grimaud propose une plongée au cour de la complexité des processus de réception médiatique dans un contexte où la perception et l'interprétation des informations sont soumises à une incertitude palpable. À travers une approche interdisciplinaire, cet ouvrage explore les dynamiques so ... more
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Religious Freedom and Populism: The Appropriation of a Human Right and How to Counter it

Bernd Hirschberger, Katja Voges (eds.)
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2024), 263 pp.