Media, The Public, and Freedom of the Press

Kim, Hun Shik

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“…The press and news media play a vital institutional role in enlightening and educating members of the society so as to ensure they have an educated voice (Judge et al, 2008). The most essential function of the press is to keep in public attention every discussion and decision made by the government, because every activity undertaken by the government is done based on public interest and the people’s behalf (Kim, 2003). Consequently, the consistent spotlight is likely to apply continual pressure on public office holders, but it is this pressure that enables them to keep their role and responsibility as public office holders, it ensures that the public officers fulfill the interest of the public, instead of fulfilling their own personal interest (Dyck, Moss, & Zingales, 2005).…”

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Environmental Factors Influencing Corporate Governance

Isukul

Chizea

2015

Sage Open

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With the enthronement of democratic governance in Nigeria, there is the expectation that democracy would strengthen political institutions, regulatory institutions, and governance effectively, and by so doing, create an enabling environment for good corporate governance practices to thrive. This research uses data from World Bank Governance indicators for three countries, Nigeria, South Africa, and Egypt, and examines how institutional quality has changed from 1996 to 2012. The research methodology used in investigating this research is a cross-country research analysis. The findings of this research reveal that the adoption of democratic institutions has not significantly increased the institutional quality of political and regulatory institutions in Nigeria. On the contrary, there has been an increasing trend of political instability and violence; however, there appears to be significant improvement in freedom of the press, democracy has allowed pressed freedom to thrive.

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Section: Institutional Influence On Corporate Governance Practicesmentioning

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Environmental Factors Influencing Corporate Governance

Isukul

Chizea

2015

Sage Open

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“…In most of them, press freedom is a particularly pressing issue, and scholars and analysts have manifested disappointment because extensions of media freedom tend to lag behind other democratic reforms. In fact, the experience of younger democracies in Eastern Europe (Hall and O'Neil ), Latin America (Fox ; Hughes and Lawson ; Waisbord , ), and East Asia (Kim ) points to a stylized fact: Democratization is not sufficient to ensure that the conditions required for the press to perform its role of “watchdog” are in place. Yet, the debate on the establishment of a free press in new democracies might have been, to an extent, barking at the wrong tree.…”

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Regulation of Speech and Media Coverage of Corruption: An Empirical Analysis of the Mexican Press

Stanig

2014

American J Political Sci

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Restrictions to media freedom, in the form of repressive defamation legislation, are thought to affect the amount of information about corruption that the media report. Exploiting variation in regulation of speech across states in a federal country, Mexico, and using a novel data set based on content analysis of the local press, I estimate the effect of lack of freedom on the coverage devoted to acts of malfeasance by public officials. Corruption receives significantly less attention in states with a more repressive defamation law. Instrumental variable models corroborate the interpretation of the negative association between regulation and coverage as a causal "chilling effect." R estrictions to media freedom shield officeholders from criticism and prevent voters from holding them accountable. In democratic countries, corruption can be understood as a failure of accountability. Citizens cannot (always) directly observe the performance of the incumbent administration, and politicians (and the bureaucrats they control) exploit the asymmetry in information to extract rents (Persson, Roland, and Tabellini 1997). Cross-country evidence shows that "a free press is bad news for corruption": Having free media (as captured by an index or by a proxy measure) is related to better governance outcomes (Adserá, Boix, and Payne, 2003;Brunetti and Weber 2003). The mechanism posited involves a link between press freedom and the amount of information available to citizens: Governance outcomes are better because thanks to the freedom they enjoy, the media provide more information to citizens, reducing the information asymmetry between citizens and government officials and the related rents the latter Piero Stanig is Senior Research Scientist in Governance and Methodology, ). might extract. In this direction, Leeson (2008) provides empirical evidence based on cross-national survey data about the relationship between the free media, citizens' information, and political apathy.This article provides the first direct estimate of the effect of legal provisions that restrict press freedom on the coverage of political, bureaucratic, and police malfeasance in the media. The estimate, based on a direct measure of coverage, exploits what resembles, to a certain extent, a natural experiment-the fact that the strictness with which speech is regulated varies across different political units (i.e., states) in a federal country. A cross-state analysis in a federal country has a distinctive advantage: A host of other factors (e.g., culture, party system, and political history) that might affect the political content of newspapers is held (almost) constant. Mexico provides a unique opportunity because freedom of speech is regulated by the criminal code (Código Penal) of each state. The intervention by the Supreme Court in freedom of

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“…As many media researchers indicate (Bang, 2004; Kim, 2003), such media within the vertical integrated market use public interest as the justification for the walled garden. Within the walled garden, the media's responsibility to stand for public interest is so highly valued that even the conservative media refuse to be labeled as mere business enterprises (Kim, 2003). This self‐delusion of public interest obviates the cooperation with telecommunication industries.…”

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Convergence of telecommunications, media and information technology, and implications for regulation

Shin

2006

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Purpose-The purpose of this study is to review current policy debates on convergence in Korea and the UK. This study compares the two countries' cases of how they prepare for convergence, what are the regulatory frameworks, and what are the conflicting issues in the convergence. Design/methodology/approach-This study conducts a comparative case study between Korean and the UK. Data are collected through literature review, regulatory document and market research. Findings-The regulation in the UK has been focused on how to change the notion of public interest in the convergence era, whereas the agenda in Korea seems to be how to apply a legacy of public interest to convergence services. The laws of public interest in Korea have been drawn from a legacy regime, which makes applying in a convergence era increasingly difficult. There is a compelling need for conceptual clarification in understanding the meaning of public interest in the convergence environment. Research limitations/implications-Future research may further investigate the effective regulatory framework in the emerging convergence era. Practical implications-Regulation needs to be transparent, clear and proportional and distinguish between transport and content. This implies a more horizontal approach to regulation with a homogenous treatment of all transport network infrastructure and associated services, irrespective of the nature of the services carried. Originality/value-This research identifies issues regarding convergences and suggests a way in which the two different principles of broadcasting and telecommunications can be integrated; how public interest laws can be reconciled with considerations of competition and economic efficiency is explained.

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Media, The Public, and Freedom of the Press

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Environmental Factors Influencing Corporate Governance

Environmental Factors Influencing Corporate Governance

Regulation of Speech and Media Coverage of Corruption: An Empirical Analysis of the Mexican Press

Convergence of telecommunications, media and information technology, and implications for regulation

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