In this article, we critically revisit previous attempts to de-Westernize media and
communication studies in Europe. Based on a review of the most reputational Europe-based …

In this article we review research published since the publication of Comparing Media
Systems which seeks to operationalize concepts discussed in that work and to test the …

Political communication researchers often take for granted that a free press is one of the
most important pillars of a solid democracy. Based on the western Fourth Estate model, they …

War reporting has mostly been analyzed as a struggle between political and military control
over information and journalistic professionalism. An analysis of reporting in mainstream …

How do press-party parallelism dynamics unfold in media systems that experience
competitive authoritarianism? We analyze the content of news coverage of political parties …

Comparative political communication scholars repeatedly debated political parallelism as a
tool to conceptualize the relation of media systems to political cleavages. Despite the fact …

The Global Handbook of Media Accountability brings together leading scholars to de-
Westernize the academic debate on media accountability and discuss different models of …

Digital journalism in Brazil is dominated by a few big players and has recently been
threatened by the country's challenging political and economic environment. Still …

This paper comparatively investigates variations in journalistic role performances in
politicized media systems. Poland and Hungary are included in the quantitative content …

How and why does legacy news media move from protecting to undermining democracy?
Several studies argue that journalism can facilitate and shape democratic backsliding …