Product Description: This text covers five topics about journalism: its roots in East/Central Europe and former Soviet Union; its role and effect leading up to the events of 1989; the transition period; the contributions, trials and tribulations from 1989-1996; and the state of journalism education in these regions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Electronic text services -- online databases, videotex, teletext and compact discs -- are transforming the way we gather, process and disseminate news and information. The uses, impact and policy implications of these rapid technological advances are explored in this comprehensive overview of electronic publishing across the world...read more