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Dr. Raluca Radu is a full professor and the Director of the Journalism Department at the Faculty of Journalism and Communication Studies, University of Bucharest, Romania. Her research and teaching interests are related to media economics, media ethics and cultural industries. She has been part of several research teams which worked on comparing media systems in Europe and beyond.
November 26, 2018 •
Censorship, Media and Politics, Press Freedom •
by Raluca Radu
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was meant to protect and empower all EU citizens’ data privacy. Here is how it can be abused to threaten journalists....
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March 21, 2018 •
Media and Politics, Media Economics, Recent, Short stories, Specialist Journalism •
by Raluca Radu
This is the second part of a two part study, comparing Europe’s Public Service Media (PSM). In a first article on the subject, we found that PSM’s budgets vary enormously across Europe and organisations do not share a common financial...
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August 14, 2017 •
Media and Politics, Media Economics •
by Raluca Radu
A study of Europe’s Public Service Media (PSM) has revealed the 2008 global financial crisis forced some public broadcasters to make significant strategic changes to policy, funding and content while others were barely affected. It found...
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February 9, 2017 •
Ethics and Quality, Latest stories, Media and Politics •
by Raluca Radu
The extraordinary demonstrations in support of democracy and the rule of law in Romania, with hundreds of thousands of people taking to the streets across the country and abroad, are the result of excellent journalism. Reporters have...
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February 19, 2016 •
Latest stories, Media and Politics •
by Raluca Radu
The Internet is not free or uncontrolled. Its infrastructure is owned by a combination of international mobile companies, politicians and businessmen, some of whom have criminal links, new research reveals. A number of companies...
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June 26, 2014 •
Digital News •
by Raluca Radu
European media managers are dedicating considerable time and energy discussing ways to reduce the dominance of Google and Facebook. In an open letter to Google, Mathias Döpfner, head of Europe’s largest newspaper publisher, said the...
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