Broadcasting, voice, and accountability : : a public interest approach to policy, law, and regulation / / Steve Buckley [and others] ; with Monroe E. Price, Mark Raboy.

• Superior document: The new media world
• Author: World Bank Group.; Steve Buckley, Kreszentia Duer, Toby Mendel, and Seán Ó Siochrú with Monroe E. Price and Mark Raboy
• TeilnehmendeR: Buckley, Steve, 1960 January 24-; Duer, Kreszentia, 1949-; Mendel, Toby,; Ó Siochrú, Seán,; Price, Monroe E., 1938-; Raboy, Marc, 1948-; World Bank Group.
• Place / Publishing House: Ann Arbor, Michigan : : University of Michigan Press,, [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: New media world.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; illustrations, charts ; digital, HTML file(s).
• Notes: 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.

Participatory development and government accountability depend in part on the existence of media that provide broad access to information from varied sources and that equip and encourage people to raise and debate issues and develop public opinion. Conducive policies, laws, and regulations are essen...

Table of Contents

• 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.