Communications and Society Program

International Television Policy

The Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program convened a series of working group meetings and reports to supplement the work of the Commission on Radio and Television Policy, a project of the Carter Center at Emory University and the DeWitt Wallace Center for Communications and Journalism at Duke University Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy. The Commission has addressed pressing issues of television policy within the United States and the republics of the former Soviet Union, Eastern, and Central Europe.

Each Working Group convened approximately 20-25 experts to address a particular subject determined in advance by the Commission in consultation with The Aspen Institute. The Aspen Institute and Carter Center then jointly issued a book of commentary on the topic along with the Report of the Working Group and the report of the full Commission for distribution in a variety of languages throughout the world.

The following reports examine a number of international issues in television policy and are available through the Aspen Institute Publications Office, publications@aspeninstitute.org:

Democracy on the Air, by Ellen Mickiewicz and Charles M. Firestone, Donald R Browne, Craig L. LaMay, Laura Roselle, ed. (1999)

Television Autonomy & the State, by Craig L. LaMay, Ellen Mickiewicz, and Charles Firestone (1999)

Television & Elections, by Ellen Mickiewicz and Charles Firestone with Laura Roselle (1999)

Television, Radio & Privatization, by Robert Entman, Dee Reid, Ellen Mickiewicz and Charles M. Firestone (1998)

Television/Radio News and Minorities, by Donald R. Brown, Charles M. Firestone, and Ellen Mickiewicz (1994) (also available in Belorussian, Kazach, Lithuanian, Russian, and Ukrainian)

Television/Radio News and Minorities, by Donald R. Brown, Charles M. Firestone, and Ellen Mickiewicz (1994)
(also available in Belorussian, Kazach, Lithuanian, Russian, and Ukrainian)

Television and Elections, by Ellen Mickiewicz and Charles M. Firestone (1992)
(also available in Arabic, Armenian, Belorussian, Bosnian, French, Hungarian, Kazach, Lithuanian, Romanian, Russian, and Ukrainian)