Broadcasting, voice, and accountability : a public interest approach to policy, law, and regulation /

Broadcasting, voice, and accountability : a public interest approach to policy, law, and regulation / Steve Buckley ... [et al.] ; with Monroe E. Price, Mark Raboy. - Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2008. - xiv, 402 p. ; 23 cm. - The new media world .

Hardcover edition published by the World Bank, Washington, D.C. Papers specially commissioned by the Center for Global Communication Studies [CGCS] at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania after the conference on Media, Voice, and Development, held at Cherkley Court in Surrey (UK) on July 12, 2006, organized by McGill [University] and Annenberg in partnership with the Beaverbrook Foundation.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Governance, broadcasting, and development -- Governance, development, and media -- Broadcasting sectors and types -- Regional broadcasting characteristics and trends -- The enabling environment for media. Introduction -- Guarantees of freedom of expression -- Enabling access to information -- Use and misuse of defamation law -- Content rules and limits to free speech -- Regulation of journalists -- Promoting plural and independent broadcasting -- Regulation and the government role -- Regulating broadcast content and distribution -- Public service broadcasting -- Community nonprofit broadcasting -- Commercial private sector broadcasting.

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Broadcasting--Congresses.
Freedom of speech--Congresses.
Broadcasting policy--Congresses.

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