Transparency in politics and the media : accountability and open government / edited by Nigel Bowles, James T. Hamilton and David A.L. Levy.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : I.B. Tauris, 2014Description: 1 online resource (264 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780857723154 (ebook)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Transparency in politics and the media : accountability and open government.DDC classification:
  • 352.88 23
LOC classification:
  • JC598 .T736 2014eb
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Contents:
Origins of the Freedom of Information Act in the United States / Michael Schudson -- Impact of transparency on accountability / Peter Riddell -- The impact of the Freedom of Information Act in the UK / Benjamin Worthy and Robert Hazell -- Valuing transparency in government and media / Patrick Birkinshaw -- Transparencies / John Lloyd -- Transparency and public policy: where open government fails accountability / Sarah Cohen -- Truth vigilantes: on journalism and transparency / Philip Bennett -- Data and transparency: perils and progress / Jennifer LaFleur -- The transparency opportunity: holding power to account - or making power accountable? / Paul Bradshaw -- Data, data everywhere: open data versus big data in the quest of transparency / Helen Margetts -- Corporations and transparency: improving consumer markets and increasing public accountability / Joel Gurin and Beth Simone Noveck -- The rise of NGOs and nonprofit media / Charles Lewis -- Keeping American accountability journalism alive / Leonard Downie Jr.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Origins of the Freedom of Information Act in the United States / Michael Schudson -- Impact of transparency on accountability / Peter Riddell -- The impact of the Freedom of Information Act in the UK / Benjamin Worthy and Robert Hazell -- Valuing transparency in government and media / Patrick Birkinshaw -- Transparencies / John Lloyd -- Transparency and public policy: where open government fails accountability / Sarah Cohen -- Truth vigilantes: on journalism and transparency / Philip Bennett -- Data and transparency: perils and progress / Jennifer LaFleur -- The transparency opportunity: holding power to account - or making power accountable? / Paul Bradshaw -- Data, data everywhere: open data versus big data in the quest of transparency / Helen Margetts -- Corporations and transparency: improving consumer markets and increasing public accountability / Joel Gurin and Beth Simone Noveck -- The rise of NGOs and nonprofit media / Charles Lewis -- Keeping American accountability journalism alive / Leonard Downie Jr.

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