The Media For Democracy Monitor

Introduction : can media monitoring support democracy? / Josef Trappel & Werner A. Meier -- Monitoring media freedom. Evaluating media freedom / Lee B. Becker & Tudor Vlad -- Monitoring and measuring press freedom on a global scale : strengths and weaknesses of the Freedom House index / Karin Deutsch-Karlekar -- Challenges of media monitoring in transition countries / Lucie Hribal -- Evaluating freedom of the media in new democracies / Kristina Weissenbach -- Monitoring media for democracy. On media monitoring : the Media for Democracy Monitor (MDM) / Josef Trappel and Tanja Maniglio -- The Netherlands / Leen d'Haenens -- Germany / Frank Marcinkowski & André Donk -- Switzerland / Tanja Maniglio & Josef Trappel -- Portugal / Joaquim Fidalgo -- Lithuania / Auks Balytien and Egl Napryt -- Monitoring media organizations. Monitoring corporate governance in US and European media firms / Robert G. Picard -- Media organisations and their accountability to democracy: categories and indicators / Torbjörn von Krogh.