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[ecrea] new e-book: Hard-Pressed, A quarter-century of media transition

Tue Dec 16 19:57:58 GMT 2014




Transitions is pleased to announce our latest e-book:

Hard-Pressed <http://Hard-Pressed%20>: A quarter-century of Central and Eastern Europe's media under the pressures of autocracy, corruption, and capitalism, with a foreword by Peter Gross.

The fall of communism brought with it expectations of an unfettered press safeguarding the young democracies of Central and Eastern Europe. But for the region's media, the past quarter-century has turned out to be much less uplifting. From oligarch-controlled television stations to politically partisan newspapers, from woeful ethical standards to outright corruption, the media often fall far short of acting as independent watchdogs over their societies, despite the existence of some scrappy publications and feisty reporters willing to uncover official wrongdoing and expose poor governance. If that weren't enough, the region's press has been hit hard by the same trends transforming the media around the world, including an explosion of alternative forms of entertainment, the growth of social media, decreased advertising revenues associated with the rise of the Internet, and general economic malaise.

Hard-Pressed: A Quarter-Century of Central and Eastern Europe's Media Under the Pressures of Autocracy, Corruption, and Capitalism is a compilation of articles from TOL and Transitions, our print predecessor, tracing this halting transition over the past 20 years.

Transitions <http://www.tol.org> is a leading Internet magazine tracking events and developments in Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia.

Peter Gross is the director of the University of Tennessee's School of Journalism and Electronic Media and one of the world's most foremost experts on the media in Central and Eastern Europe.


Jeremy Druker
Executive Director and Editor in Chief
Transitions (TOL) ¦ www.tol.org <http://www.tol.org>
(jeremy.druker /at/ tol.org) <mailto:(jeremy.druker /at/ tol.org)>


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