Media in the Vatican
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Media in the Vatican

In this episode of "Continent," we examine the media in the Vatican. Golli Marboe speaks with Gudrun Sailer from Vatican News in Rome and with Jürgen Erbacher, head of the Catholic Church and World department at ZDF (German public television).

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Media in Switzerland
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Media in Switzerland

In this episode of "Continent," we explore the media landscape in Switzerland. Golli Marboe discusses the role of major publishing houses in the country with Martin Zimper, professor at the Zurich University of the Arts. Zimper, who holds a doctorate in communication studies, teaches, experiments, and conducts research at the intersection of new audiovisual media technologies and social media, with a focus on storytelling.

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Media in Slovenia
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Media in Slovenia

In this episode of "Continent," the international media magazine, Golli Marboe examines the media landscape in Slovenia. This small country, with roughly the same population as the greater Vienna area, is going through a difficult period. There is much discussion surrounding the funding of the news agency and public broadcasting. We speak with journalist Borut Mekina, who works for a magazine that could perhaps be compared to Profil or Falter in Slovenia; this magazine is called Mladina. We also speak with Natalija Gorščak, the former director of public broadcasting in Slovenia.

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Media in Belgium
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Media in Belgium

In this episode of "Continent," the international media magazine, our journey through Europe takes us to Brussels. Golli Marboe, in conversation with Wolfgang Böhm, who has headed the Europe section of the newspaper Die Presse since 1992, focuses particularly on the EU and NATO hub. Among other things, they explore which pan-European media outlets operate from Brussels and to what extent these outlets then set the agenda for local and regional media across the continent.

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Journalism in Great Britain
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Journalism in Great Britain

Today's episode of Continent takes us to the British Isles; we're talking about the media in the United Kingdom.

BBC , the mother of all public broadcasters and of quality journalism par excellence, also boast arguably the world's most brutal and gruesome tabloid press, Times and The Guardian Tessa Szyszkowitz , a correspondent living in London since 2010. She writes for, among others, the Austrian news magazine profil , the German magazine for political culture Cicero , and the Viennese weekly newspaper Falter .

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Media in Albania
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Media in Albania

In this issue of "Continent," Golli Marboe focuses on the Western Balkan state of Albania. Approximately 3 million people live there in an area roughly equivalent to the combined size of the Austrian states of Lower and Upper Austria. He speaks with Adelheid Wölfl, the Balkan correspondent for the daily newspaper Der Standard, who lives in Sarajevo.

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Media in Romania
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Media in Romania

In the current episode of the media magazine Continent, Golli Marboe speaks today with the founder of the “Media and Journalism Research Center” and author Marius Dragomir about the situation of media and journalism in Romania.

Book recommendation: “The difficult role of the media for democracy in Romania” (2022)

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Journalism in Spain
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Journalism in Spain

Today's episode of Continent is about the situation of the media in Spain.

Golli Marboe discusses this with José Alberto García Avilés , Director of the Department of Social and Human Sciences at the Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche . Incidentally, in Reporters Without Borders ' Press Freedom Index, Spain ranks 32nd , behind countries such as Trinidad and Tobago , East Timor, and the Dominican Republic. However, it also ranks behind Austria, which is just one place ahead of Spain at number 31.

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Media in Spain
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Media in Spain

The next episode of Continent focuses on the media situation in Spain. Golli Marboe speaks with José Alberto García Avilés, Director of the Department of Social and Human Sciences at the Miguel Hernández University of Elche. In Reporters Without Borders' Press Freedom Index, Spain ranks 32nd, behind countries such as Trinidad and Tobago, East Timor, the Dominican Republic, and even Austria, which is just one place ahead of Spain.

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