1st Edition

Transparency, Public Relations and the Mass Media Combating the Hidden Influences in News Coverage Worldwide

By Katerina Tsetsura, Dean Kruckeberg Copyright 2017
114 Pages
by Routledge

114 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

114 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book is about media transparency and good-faith attempts of honesty by both the sources and the gate-keepers of news and other information that the mass media present as being unbiased. Specifically, this book provides a theoretical framework for understanding media transparency and its antithesis--media opacity--by analyzing extensive empirical data that the authors have collected from more... Read more

1. An Incomplete Truth



2. Multiple Truths



3. Media Practice or Media Bribery? Conceptual and Theoretical Considerations and Implications



4. Dispelling the Myths of the Ethical Significance and Validity of the Concept of Cultural Relativism and the Need for Cultural Tolerance in Combatting Media Bribery Worldwide



5. The Global Study of Media Transparency



6. Professional Communities against Media Bribery



7. A Normative Theory of Media Bribery

Biography

Dean Kruckeberg, APR, Fellow PRSA, is a professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA. He is co-author of Public Relations and Community: A Reconstructed Theory and of This Is PR: The Realities of Public Relations. Kruckeberg is author and co-author of many book chapters and articles dealing with global PR and international PR ethics.





Katerina Tsetsura, Ph.D., is a Gaylord Family professor of strategic communication/public relations in the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Oklahoma, USA She has published over 80 peer-reviewed studies and serves as a member of the editorial board of Communication Theory, International Journal of Strategic Communication, PR Journal, and PR Review journals, among others.