Includes bibliographical references and index.

Press freedom measures: an introduction / by Monroe Price -- Examining existing measures of press freedom and media sustainability: a critical look at indicators and methodologies of measurement. Conceptualizing and measuring characteristics of media systems / by Lee Becker and Tudor Vlad -- When theory meets practice: critical reflections from the field on press freedom indicators / by Gerry Power, Anna Godfrey, and Patrick McCurdy -- Examining and critiquing existing measures of media development / by Andrew Puddephatt -- What are we measuring? a critical review of media development assessment tools / by Fackson Banda -- Questioning the assumptions of press freedom rankings: regional perspectives. Press freedom and transnational online activism in China / by Guobin Yang -- Freedom of the press : is a worldwide comparison possible and what is it good for? / by Christina Holtz-Bacha -- Post-Soviet perspective on censorship and freedom of the media / by Andrei Richter -- Cybersieves / by Derek Bambauer -- Towards a new approach to evaluation / Nicole Stremlau -- From press freedom indices to evaluating media development. What works? the problem of program evaluation / by Craig LaMay -- Good but how good? monitoring and evaluation of media assistance projects / by Andy Mosher -- Measuring the impact of media assistance programs: a road map for collaboration among media researchers and media development organizations / by Susan Abbott and Maureen Taylor -- Making the case for how media matters: linkages between media and democratic and economic development. Measuring the media: examining the interdisciplinary approach / by Shanthi Kalathil -- Indicators of citizen voice for assessing media development: a communicative action approach / by Tom Jacobson, Lingling Pan, and Seung Joon Jun -- Beyond borders: is media freedom contagious? / by Russell S. Sobel, Nabamita Dutta, and Sanjukta Roy -- The global promotion of media diversity: models and bureaucratic imperatives in international media assistance / by Silvio Waisbord.