Creating a Free Press in Eastern Europe

CREATING A FREE PRESS IN EASTERN EUROPE brings a top-quality collection of up-to-date, hard-to-find information about the rapidly changing press system of Eastern & Central Europe. The book is the third in the series concerning the role of mass media in the former communist states of Europe, published by the Cox International Center at the University of Georgia. Chapters were written by U.S. & foreign expert media professionals & academics with information gathered first-hand in the countries involved. The studies were written in 1993 or late 1992, giving one of the most timely collections of description & analysis of major roles of the mass media in these countries. Sampling of contents: Political effects on media in Bulgaria; investigative journalism in Bulgaria; women & news media practices in Eastern Europe; the English-language press of Prague; emergence of Albania's free press; broadcast press freedom in Slovakia; Romania's new press law; the role of new publishers' associations in Eastern & Central Europe; privatization of print media; recent trends in Czech media development; the Czech broadcast law; & freedom of speech & press in Central Europe. To order: www.grady.uga.edu/coxcenter./Hester, Al is the author of 'Creating a Free Press in Eastern Europe' with ISBN 9780943089041 and ISBN 0943089042.