How to study media diversity has become a major concern in today's media landscape.
Many expect that algorithmic filtering and a shift of audiences from legacy media to new …

This report explores what is known about the roles of the mass media in transitions to
democracy. It offers a fundamental overview of thinking regarding democratisation through …

Community media journalists are, in essence,'filling in the gaps' left by mainstream news
outlets. Forde's extensive 10 year study now develops an understanding of the journalistic …

This article presents a comparative analysis of the changing patterns of media ownership in
ten new EU member states from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and discusses the …

This article argues that today in Central and Eastern Europe self-censorship, journalistic
freedom and autonomy are just as severely affected by economic constraints, oligarchic …

This book presents an analysis of the current Lebanese media system. From a theoretical
angle, it discusses the extent to which this system can be analyzed using the ideal types put …

In the face of globalization and new media technologies, can policy makers and regulators
withstand deregulatory pressures on the 'cultural policy toolkit'for television? This …

We started this study with the ambition of empirically relating media system domains with
deliberative communication. We identified four domains on the basis of previous research …

During the early 2000s, the newspaper market in Northern Europe was characterised by a
trend of format changes as many broadsheets have chosen to adapt to the tabloid format …

Trust is a societal value that is difficult to gain and easy to lose. This article deals with the
levels of trust that journalists working in eight post-authoritarian and post-totalitarian …