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This systematic review of more than 300 Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (JMCQ) articles on media law since 1924 documents what a vital scholarly outlet the journal has been and continues to be for research on freedom of the press and speech. While defamation law remains a popular topic, journalism and mass communication scholars have expanded their focus to a wider range of media law issues, including privacy, copyright, student speech, journalistic privilege, free press v. fair trial, advertising, and issues involving other media. JMCQ has been refreshingly open to international and comparative law, moving away from a U.S.-centric approach to media freedom. The review highlights a decline in the number of media law articles published in recent years, possibly due to competition from alternative journals, manuscript length limitations, and the APA-style requirement. Nevertheless, media law scholarship remains essential, offering invaluable insights into the evolving legal landscape of media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Previous studies have identified various individual factors explaining news avoidance, but the understanding of how these factors function within the broader political information environment is limited. This study, leveraging a large-scale cross-national survey, reveals that the relationships between individual news interests, news trust, and news avoidance differ across countries with varying levels of press freedom. In nations where the press is strong and free, personal preferences minimally influence individuals’ active avoidance of hard news. News avoidance is not solely a product of individual-level attributes. Rather, the impact of these individual factors is significantly shaped by the overarching political information environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Moldovan society, that has many gaps, contradictions and divergences on the road to European integration, faces serious media challenges. The mass media play a central role in this process through the functions they perform. The research comes to demonstrate the thesis according to which an adequate information of the citizens on the European Union, necessary condition of the process of European integration, is disturbed by many destabilizing factors both objective and subjective. The concentration of the media, the political control, the proliferation of Russian televisions, the new media propagate harmful phenomena such as manipulation, propaganda and misinformation, aiming at compromising the European vector of development of the country. At the same time, a serious problem is the violation, for various reasons, of the ethical standards of the journalism, based on European values and practices. The European integration of the Republic of Moldova can be a successful process if they are ensured the freedom and pluralism of the media, based on a reformed legal framework and massive media support to prepare public opinion favorable to the integration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Pour la plupart des observateurs, la liberté de la presse à Hong Kong n'a cessé de reculer ces 15 dernières années. Cet article étudie la question de la liberté de la presse du point de vue de l'économie politique des médias. Il est communément admis que le gouvernement chinois a indirectement exercé son influence sur les médias hongkongais en cooptant les patrons de presse, pour la plupart des entrepreneurs ayant d'importants intérêts commerciaux sur le continent. Or le système politico-économique a connu simultanément des tensions internes et a donc ouvert un espace de résistance pour les professionnels des médias, aidant ainsi le système médiatique dans son ensemble à conserver un certain degré d'autonomie par rapport au centre du pouvoir. Au cours des années 2010 le paysage médiatique a cependant subi plusieurs transformations de taille, notamment la détérioration de l'environnement de l'industrie médiatique et l'essor des technologies des médias numériques. Ces mutations ont eu un impact sur la façon dont les patrons de presse calculent leur rapport coût-avantage, contribuant ainsi à l'arrivée de capitaux chinois dans le monde des médias hongkongais. Le secteur des médias numériques est lui aussi confronté au problème de l'ingérence de l'État chinois. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]