Projects

Italian Journalism in the Age of Silvio Berlusconi

What's happened to Italian news media in the last two decades, and what was it like before?

Reporting China

Chinese journalism after market reforms: the possibility and dangers of investigation.

Russian News is Good News

The remaking of Russian journalism, and Russian journalists, in the age of Vladimir Putin.

Independent Journalism in Post-Independence States

The perils and possibilities of holding power to account in different African countries.

The Pipers and the Tunes

A comparative perspective on the power of proprietors, public service and people to influence the content and limits of journalism.

The Peripheral Vision of Central Issues

How good is the coverage of matters essential to public welfare and the public interest? And who cares about it?

What we are reading

The State of the News Media

By the Project for Excellence in Journalism

How Cablevision Is Destroying Newsday

By Christopher Twarowski and Michael Patrick Nelson

Freelance writing's unfortunate new model

By James Rainey for the Los Angeles Times

South Africa & worrying signs for press freedom

Mail & Guardian article by Dario Milo on concerning media legislation

Banning Free Speech - where will it end?

by Guy Berger on South Africa

Why The Great Firewall of China is Crumbling? Tunnelling The Great Escape!

Interesting article on China and the Internet

L'Italia dei giornali fotocopia (in Italian)

Excellent book by Alessandro Barbano on the crisis of Italian newspapers. Although published in 2003, its insight remain timely.

More journalists than ever are dying for bearing witness

Robert Mahoney for Huffington Post

How Dictators Watch us on the Web

by Evgeny Morozov for Prospect