Boguslawa Dobek-Ostrowska, is a Professor at the University of Wroclaw, Poland. She has published several books and articles.
Jelena Kleut, is an Associate Professor at the Department of Media Studies, at the University of Novi Sad, Serbia. She is a coordinator of BA programme Communication and PR.

We selected ten post-communist countries for this research. Eight of them are located on the Balkan Peninsula, from a geographical point of view. We added Romania and Slovenia for historical reasons. The main aim of research is to provide a model of the media system in each of them. We are interested in the political, societal, economic and technological situation, journalistic standards and media accountability. The important thing is to know how media systems evolve in each country, under the influence of political institutions and external stakeholders. We examined how political, media, economic and social systems co-work or influence each other and how they affect each other.

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Bogus awa Dobek-Ostrowska is a Professor at the University of Wroc aw, Poland. She has published several books and articles. Her research interests include political communication, media systems and journalism in Central and Eastern Europe. She is a specialist in comparative studies. She was a founder and editor of Central European Journal of Communication and the series Studies in Communication and Politics of Peter Lang Edition. Jelena Kleut is an Associate Professor at the Department of Media Studies at the University of Novi Sad, Serbia. She is a coordinator of BA programme Communication and PR and a council member of the BA and MA programme Cultural Studies. She is a Chair of the ECREA Audience and Reception Studies Section. Her research interests include audiences and journalism in new media contexts, on which she has published several articles and one book.

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Part I: The media systems environment in Balkan countries - Part II: Democratic standards in the European Union member- countries: Between Hybrid Liberal and Politicized Media models - Part III: The media systems outside the European Union: democracy, semi- democracy, or undemocratic way?