World Bank: free press is good for you!

The World Association of Newspapers and the World Bank released a book evaluating the media's role in either helping or hindering development. Beyond some nice words about the essential role of access to information in a successful development strategy, writers address the sticky question of how to establish and maintain an independent media. "Substituting state-controlled media with a media controlled by one or two oligarchs has not restored confidence in the media, nor has it strengthened the nascent democracies."

The Right To Tell The Role of Mass Media in Economic Development

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Published: 26 November 2002 , last edited: 15 July 2003

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