Who controls the media today? There are many media systems across the globe that claim to be free yet whose independence has been eroded. As demagogues rise, in

This book explores the form, dynamics, and main reasons for media capture and conspiracy between editors and executive politicians in Central and Eastern Europe

This book features pathbreaking analysis from journalists and academics of the changing nature and peril of media capture--how formerly independent institutions

"Today, threats to independent journalism no longer come only from direct forms of state control. Where advocates of a vibrant public sphere once mobilized agai

A scholarly analysis of how state capture unfolded in South Africa and how it was contested by a range of actors in civil society, political organizations and w