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Preface

Dortmund in connection with the Erich Brost Stiftungsprofessor pro-
vided an important opportunity for discussion of some of our early re-
sults. A visiting professorship at the University of D¨ usseldorf, funded by
the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinshaft and organized by Professor Karin
B¨ ohme-D¨ urr, provided important opportunities for research, as did a
United States Information Agency (USIA) Academic Specialist grant for
travel to Greece. Meetings organized at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa,
the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and by the Journalists Union
of Macedonia and Thrace were also very useful.
Stlianos Papathanassopoulos, Ralph Negrine, Winfried Schultz,
Wolfang Donsbach, Jos´ e Luis Dader, Michael Gurevitch, Peter
Humphreys,ErikNeveu,KatharinaHadamik,andGerdKopperattended
seminars during which we discussed our project, and they have been
very helpful in providing both information and critiques of our ideas.
We bored other colleagues in various parts of the world asking them
to read parts of the book and to correct our mistakes. The reactions of
Peter Humphreys, James Curran, Lennart Weibull, Raimo Salokangas,
RobertHackett,WinfriedSchultz,KeesBrants,JayBlumler,StylianosPa-
pathanassoupolos, Jos´ e Luis Dader, Isabel Fern´ andez, and Erik Neveu to
ourdraftshavebeenveryuseful.Weaskedmanycolleaguestohelpuswith
informationwelackedaboutparticularcountries.Inadditiontothosewe
havementioned,wereceivedhelpfromElsdeBens,MonikaDjerf-Pierre,
Tom Olsson, Jan Ekecrantz, Yuezhi Zhao, Rudi Renger, Nelson Traquina,
Eric Darras, Yoram Peri, and Sigurd Høst. At various times we discussed
the content of this book with Cees Hamelink, Peter Dahlgren, Kaarle
Nordenstreng, Klaus Schoenbach, Rod Benson, Partick Champagne,
Dominique Marchetti, Holli Semetko, and J. M. Nobre-Correia. Raquel
Fern´ andez, Llucia Oliva, Juan Diez Nicolas, and Maria-Teresa Cordero
were very helpful in arranging interviews in Spain. Many journalists,
media regulators, and others in a number of countries were also willing
to give their time for our questions. Rod Benson and Mauro Porto did
the coding and helped to develop the content analysis reported here.
Alain Cohen and Ferruh Yilmaz provided help with translations.

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