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.

Public broadcasting, media ownership and democratic debate in Japan

Compared to the United States and Europe where global media conglomerates are transforming the media landscape, Japans media system has remained surprisingly stable over the last decade. Japans

By Dr Barbara Gatzen

/ 13 Feb 2002