Table of Contents

1: Democratization and the Dilemmas of Media Independence; 2: Democracy Promotion in Foreign Assistance; 3: The Origins and Goals of Media Assistance; 4: The Civil Society Problem: Media Freedom and the “Public Interest”; 5: Editorial Mission and the Dilemma of Revenue Sources; 6: Sustaining Independent Media: Case Studies in Media Firms and Assistance Providers; Conclusion

About the Author

Craig L. LaMay is director of media research at the Urban Institute, Northwestern University. Before that, he served as editor of Media Studies Journal. He is co-editor, with Everette E. Dennis, of America's Schools and the Mass Media and Higher Education in the Information Age.

Reviews

-The profiles of news and public affairs media in Exporting Press Freedom exemplify strategic and entrepreneurial approaches to developing and supporting public service media. Such approaches may be of use not only in the developing world, but in the consolidated Western democracies as well, where concern has grown about poor journalistic performance and its consequences for democratic governance. Nevertheless, the book will be o f primary use to assistance providers and recipients, both of whom want to know what works which projects enhance independence and professionalism and which are able to sustain themselves.- --SirReadaLot.org

"The profiles of news and public affairs media in Exporting Press Freedom exemplify strategic and entrepreneurial approaches to developing and supporting public service media. Such approaches may be of use not only in the developing world, but in the consolidated Western democracies as well, where concern has grown about poor journalistic performance and its consequences for democratic governance. Nevertheless, the book will be o f primary use to assistance providers and recipients, both of whom want to know what works which projects enhance independence and professionalism and which are able to sustain themselves." --SirReadaLot.org