Preface: Many scholars and practitioners in the fields of democracy and media freedom would support the proposition that the two are intimately connected, but the exact relationship between them and the degree of causality between changes in one with changes in the other has not been the subject of extensive research. This study attempts to...

This paper offers a snapshot of the current state of media literacy programs. Introduction In 2009 and 2010, people coming and going in a collection of public places in Ukraine saw an unusual set of electronic billboards. “The person who uncovers that which was hidden–that’s a real journalist,” read one, against an image of a...

China Central Television has come a long ways since its founding as a domestic party propaganda outlet in 1958. The domestic service has been supplemented by an international service, boasting three major global offices in Beijing, Washington, and Nairobi, and more than 70 additional international bureaus. The quality of CCTV’s journalism depends on both the...

This study provides a survey of how the Chinese Communist Party's information control affects the news media beyond mainland China’s borders.

This report examines the intense debate about the rights of countries or communities to restrict content viewed as blasphemous or objectionable in their cultures and how this is affecting the international news media landscape. The ability of individuals to openly speak their minds is a core principle not only of American journalism, but American democracy...