This timely and incisive study unpacks the ethical, political, and technological forces reshaping journalism across Eastern Europe. With clarity and scholarly rigor, it exposes systemic challenges while offering thoughtful pathways forward. An essential resource for anyone seeking to understand or strengthen democratic communication today.Marius Dragomir, Department of Public Policy, Central European University, Austria.
Through a remarkable knowledge of the existing literature, this book offers an interesting landscape of the ethics of journalism in Central Eastern Europe. The theme is discussed with an eye to the situation in the western world and the very established thought on professional journalism.Paolo Mancini, Università di Perugia, Italy.
Seminal go-to book on not just ethics and journalism theories and its specifics in Eastern Europe but also the challenging realities: of digitization, citizen journalism, media systems, digital public and digital public media, but also disinformation, smear campaigns and other anomalies that affect journalism in Easter Europebut also elsewhere.Prof. Marko Milosavljevi, Department of Journalism, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
This book takes a 360° approach to addressing the contemporary challenges facing professional journalism, from economic constraints and audience fragmentation to disinformation and the question of what constitutes morally right or wrong behaviour. Both journalists and scholars can learn a great deal from these highly experienced academic writers.Josef Trappel, Professor for media policy and media economics at the Department of Communication Studies, University of Salzburg, Austria.
Timely and incisive, written in an elegant and informative style, this book is a slow, delightful read on journalism ethics. Drawing on historical cases and todays examples, it guides readers in understanding how the media mirrors broader societal challenges that reshape how news is created, shared, and consumed.Auks Balytien, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania.