Appendix C: Journalism: A Guide to Recent Literature - Section 10. Global and Comparative Journalism

A. Reference Sources

Attacks on the Press. New York: Committee to Protect Journalists, 1987-present, annual. Detailed accounting of violence and death in the line of reporting duty. Editors vary each year. The current version can be found online: http://www.cpj.org.

Balnaves, Mark, et al. The Penguin Atlas of Media and Information: Key Issues and Global Trends. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin, 2001. Color diagrams and maps provide a graphic way to illustrate the information age, press and radio, cinema, television and beyond, ownership and control, advertising, information and communication technology, and the media-created global village.

Columbia University Journalism Library. News Magazines. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/enews/magazines.html. Allows ready linking to current issues of about 75 news magazines around the world with continental lists arranged by country.

European Audiovisual Observatory. Statistical Yearbook: Cinema, Television, Video and New Media in Europe. Strasbourg, France: EAO, 1995-present, annual. Invaluable collection of statistics, charts and tables, and related text, comparing and contrasting trends in all European countries.

Freedom of the Press: A Global Survey of Media Independence. New York: Freedom House / Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, annual. Very useful survey, annually updated, on virtually every country in the world, written by regional authorities. Each nation is ranked as to its legal, political, and the economic media environment (lower scores show a more open and the democratic system) and recent developments are reviewed. See Volume 6, Appendix B, for additional data and information on journalism.

Freedom of the Press throughout the World. Paris: Reporters Sans [Without] Frontiers, 1992-present, annual. Very detailed annual survey, with country-by-country reports, on the status of press freedom around the world. Several mid-1990s reports were published by John Libbey in England. Since 2002 they are available online at http://www.rsf.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=736.

Kaid, Lynda Lee, and Christina Holtz-Bacha, eds. The SAGE Handbook of Political Advertising. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2006. Gathers nearly 30 academic papers from a variety of scholars worldwide to provide an assessment of practice in other nations which underlines just how different national policies and practices are in different political and media systems. Coverage includes Britain, France, Spain and Portugal, Israel, Brazil, Chile, Germany, Nordic and Baltic States, Greece, [Page 2303]Netherlands, Italy, Mexico, Australia and New Zealand, East Asia (Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan), and evolving democracies such as Russia, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Turkey, Southeast Asia (Philippines, Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia), West Africa, and South Africa, with many comparisons and conclusions.

Media Sustainability Index: Development of Sustainable Independent Media. Washington, DC: IREX [International Research and Exchanges Board], 2001-present, annual. These volumes—also available free online (http://www.irex.org/msi/index.asp)—are produced with support from the U.S. Agency for International Development, and provide detailed assessments of independent (of government) media development in a growing number of Third World countries. The Media Sustainability Index reviews five topics: availability of legal and social norms to protect and promote free speech and access to public information; whether journalism meets professional standards of quality; whether there are multiple news sources to provide citizens with reliable and objective news; whether independent media are well-managed businesses, allowing editorial independence; and if there are supporting institutions that function in the professional interests of independent media. Thus far, there are three regions covered in the annual series that are accumulating the ability to show trends over time:

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  Europe and Eurasia. 2001-present. Covers 21 countries in southeastern Europe and Central Asia.
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  Middle East and North Africa. 2006-present. Includes 18 largely Muslim countries.
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  Africa. 2006-present. Includes 37 sub-Saharan nations, and considerable discussion of community radio.

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