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Dr Barbara Gatzen

Barbara Gatzen is a visiting research fellow at the Australian National University in Canberra and a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Trier in Germany. She is the author of Japanese television news: an intercultural comparison of presentation strategies in Japanese and German news shows (Gunter Narr Verlag, Tubingen, 2001). She is research editor for the Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies.

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Public broadcasting, media ownership and democratic debate in Japan

In Japan, the near-fifty year incumbency of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, and the best efforts of Rupert Murdoch, have not yet managed to destroy the conception of ‘public service’ as a deliverer of honest and comprehensive news. But political pressure and media rivalries make the space for serious, critical, independent journalism a constrained one.