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is former editor of the free expression magazine Index on Censorship and currently commissioning editor of Manifestos for the Twenty-first Century for Seagull Books. Judith Vidal-Hall is a member of the Eurozine Advisory Board.
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Democracy live
Media, politics and the tyranny of the opinion poll
The surge in "anti-politics" throughout Europe coincides with media marketization and the rise of digital technologies. How is media change connected to the loss of trust in political institutions and what happens to democracy when political decision-making relies increasingly on the opinion poll? [more]
A press fit for the purpose?
Finding a new model for press and public service broadcasting
Despite the Internet's growing significance as vehicle of freedom of expression, public service broadcasting and the press will remain for some time the visible face of the watchdog on power. In western Europe, the traditional media need to prove they are still capable of performing this role. [more]
Handmaiden of democracy or market commodity?
The media in central and eastern Europe twenty years after 1989
Those in central and eastern Europe who, after 1989, saw the media as the handmaiden of democracy and the conventional watchdog on power, today have become targets for new and subtler forms of censorship, writes Eurozine guest-editor Judith Vidal-Hall. [more]
A shifting media landscape
An interview with Miklós Haraszti
On the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Miklós Haraszti, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, speaks to Judith Vidal-Hall about the shifting media landscape in the post-communist countries of central and eastern Europe. [more]
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