Historical guide to world media freedom : a country-by-country analysis / Jenifer Whitten-Woodring, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Douglas A. Van Belle, Victoria University of Wellington
Introduction -- Defining and measuring media freedom -- The historical development and correlates of media freedom -- Country profiles -- Conclusion: Challenges to media freedom and patterns in its evolution and devolution -- Appendix A: Media freedom region by region -- Appendix B: The Global Media Freedom Dataset : data gathering methods, guidelines for using the data, and merging the data with Freedom House data
Summary
This book contains comprehensive historical data on media freedom since World War II, providing consistent and comparable measures of media freedom in all independent countries for the years 1948 to the present. It also includes country-by country summaries, analyses of historical and regional trends in media freedom, and extensive reliability analyses of media freedom measures
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index
