CIAO DATE: 06/2009
May 2009
National Endowment for Democracy
This report examines the ways in which media around the world have attempted to regulate themselves. Written by Bill Ristow, a veteran journalist and international journalism trainer, Sword and Shield: Self-Regulation and International Media discusses the use of press councils and ombudsmen around the world. While nearly all such efforts officially espouse the same generalized high goal-raising the standards of media coverage, in part by giving the public a chance to criticize and question that coverage-there are significant differences among them in approach, scope, effectiveness, and, most significantly, independence.
Resource link: Sword and Shield: Self-Regulation and International Media [PDF] - 978K