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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Transparency in politics and the media. |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Nigel Bowles; James Hamilton; David A L Levy |
ISBN: | 0857723154 9780857723154 9781306171540 1306171547 0857734598 9780857734594 |
OCLC Number: | 864851324 |
Language Note: | English. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xxiii, 238 pages .). |
Contents: | Origins of the Freedom of Information Act in the United States / Michael Schudson -- Impact of transparency on accountability / Peter Riddell -- The impact of the Freedom of Information Act in the UK / Benjamin Worthy and Robert Hazell -- Valuing transparency in government and media / Patrick Birkinshaw -- Transparencies / John Lloyd -- Transparency and public policy: where open government fails accountability / Sarah Cohen -- Truth vigilantes: on journalism and transparency / Philip Bennett -- Data and transparency: perils and progress / Jennifer LaFleur -- The transparency opportunity: holding power to account -- or making power accountable? / Paul Bradshaw -- Data, data everywhere: open data versus big data in the quest of transparency / Helen Margetts -- Corporations and transparency: improving consumer markets and increasing public accountability / Joel Gurin and Beth Simone Noveck -- The rise of NGOs and nonprofit media / Charles Lewis -- Keeping American accountability journalism alive / Leonard Downie Jr. |
Series Title: | RISJ challenges. |
Responsibility: | edited by Nigel Bowles, James T. Hamilton and David A.L. Levy. |
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'This book's prescient examination of transparency and accountability comes at a crucial moment for both the media and open government. This important document should be pondered and then become a catalyst for powerful action- by both media and government.' Alex S. Jones, Director of the Joan Shorestein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, and Laurence M. Lombard Lecturer in the Press and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government Read more...


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- Transparency in government.
- Government and the press.
- Freedom of information.
- Intellectual freedom.
- Access to Information
- État et presse.
- Liberté d'information.
- Liberté de pensée.
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Affairs & Administration.
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