Press Freedom in Africa : comparative perspectives / 1st ed.

Press Freedom in Africa : comparative perspectives / edited by Herman Wasserman. - 1st ed. - London ; New York : Routledge, c2013. - viii, 148 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword : press freedom in a game of interests / Francis B. Nyamnjoh -- Press freedom in Africa : discourses, debates, controversies / Herman Wasserman -- South African media in comparative perspective / Colin Sparks -- Growing pains in the development of a free press in Africa and Asia : a comparative analysis : South Africa and India / Jiafei Yin -- Best practice in media self-regulation : a three-way test to avoid selective borrowing and ad hoc transplants / Guy Berger -- Development journalism revived : the case of Ethiopia / Terje S. Skjerdal -- Going back to the crossroads : visions of a new democratic media future at the dawn of the new South Africa / Gabriƫl J. Botma -- The ANC's poverty of strategy on media accountability / Jane Duncan -- Whose freedom? : South Africa's press, middle-class bias and the threat of control / Steven Friedman -- The present is another country : a comment on the 2010 media freedom debate / Peter D. McDonald.

9780415539067 (hbk) 9781138008939 (pbk)


Freedom of the press--Africa.

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