In the latest of our guest blogs, London College of Communications student Lydia Polzer, who was born in the old DDR or East Germany, reflects on how many people in the former Communist countries are disappointed with the ‘freedoms’ offered by the western liberal news media. This article was also the winner for a UNESCO essay competition which set the question: “The greatest threat to media freedom in the world is…” This is Lydia’s view
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This paper analyzes the importance of the freedom of the media and the freedom of expression as univ...
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This article analyses the issue of how the “post-socialist" civil society of the former GDR can be r...
Freedom of the press is essential to a vibrant, liberal democracy. In Hungary and Poland, where demo...
Everyone in rich democracies like Britain assumes that a free media is a vital part of our liberal p...
On 3 May, 2013, AUT University’s Pacific Media Centre marked the 20th anniversary of the UNESCO Worl...
POLIS caused a stir last night as Russia Today’s Darya Pushkova and Novosti’s Pavel Andreev set out ...
I’ve been asked to speak as part of an event to mark UNESCO’s World Press Freedom Day. The debate is...
This is a paper submitted as part of the Polis Summer School The limits on freedom of expression in ...
A common claim in the democratization literature is that foreign free media undermine authoritarian ...
The year 1989 marked a new beginning. The Berlin Wall fell, and with it, the Soviet empire. East Ger...
This paper analyzes the importance of the freedom of the media and the freedom of expression as univ...
It is argued in this paper that the relative deficit of media freedom in most of Central and...
International media assistance took off during a time where the ideological extremes of USA vs. USSR...
Some more thoughts (not all mine, by any means) from this week’s conference on Media and Democracy a...
M.Phil.Authoritarian regimes always want to control the information received by people and manipulat...
There is much tension between the conception of the press as a private enterprise subject to the log...
This article analyses the issue of how the “post-socialist" civil society of the former GDR can be r...
Freedom of the press is essential to a vibrant, liberal democracy. In Hungary and Poland, where demo...
Everyone in rich democracies like Britain assumes that a free media is a vital part of our liberal p...
On 3 May, 2013, AUT University’s Pacific Media Centre marked the 20th anniversary of the UNESCO Worl...
POLIS caused a stir last night as Russia Today’s Darya Pushkova and Novosti’s Pavel Andreev set out ...
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