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Radio Redux
Freedom on the Airwaves

First Edition


July 2010 | 192 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

This issue of Index on Censorship magazine is available for purchase as an individual volume.

We can't do without radio. However many new forms of mass communication are invented, the grandmother of them all remains indispensable. From Peru to Jordan, it's radio journalists who are often the first, and the last, to defy censorship and push the boundaries. As modern technology multiplies radio's reach, Index examines the medium and its messengers. Alexei Venediktov gives an exclusive interview on the secret of radio station Ekho Moskvy's survival - one of the last bastions of free speech in Russia; Joe Queenan reveals why he has no time for talk radio in the US and Shirazuddin Siddiqi on the programme the Taliban couldn't ban.

Radio Redux, focuses on the impact of the original broadcast media. Despite the explosion in new forms of communication, radio remains on the front line in free speech. From the shock jocks of the US to community radio in Mexico, Index on Censorship takes a close listen to battles on the airwaves.

PLUS Richard Norton-Taylor on the pursuit of secrecy; Marge Berer on a full-frontal cover-up; an exclusive extract from Javad Mahzadeh's acclaimed novel set during the Iran-Iraq war and Martin Rowson's Stripsearch.

Index on Censorship is an award-winning magazine, devoted to protecting and promoting free expression. International in outlook, outspoken in comment, Index on Censorship reports on free expression violations around the world, publishes banned writing and shines a light on vital free expression issues through original, challenging and intelligent commentary and analysis, publishing some of the world's finest writers.


Jo Glanville
Editorial
 
PART ONE: DISPATCHES
Richard Norton-Taylor
The Pursuit of Secrecy
How the Courts Stopped Labour's Cover-up

 
 
PART TWO: RADIO REDUX
Gillian Reynolds
Rulers of the Airwaves
The Key to Radio's Success

 
Joe Queenan
Looking for America
Talk Radio Is the Battleground for the USA's Soul

 
Aryeh Neier
Open Mike
Free Speech Remains the Best Antidote

 
Martin Semukanya
Culture of Caution
Rwandan Journalists Are Still Rebuilding Credibility

 
Liam Hodkinson and Elizabeth Stitt
Radio Waves: Facts and Figures
Irena Maryniak
The World Strikes Back
The Broadcast Revolution Has Rewritten the Rules

 
Richard Sambrook
New Waves
International Radio Can No Longer Go It Alone

 
Martin Rowson
Stripsearch
Adrienne Van Heteren
Good Morning, Belgrade
The Triumph of B92

 
Maria Eismont
Rules of Engagement
Alexei Venediktov on the Secret of His Survival

 
Vugar Gojayev
Radio Silence
Azerbaijan's Shrinking Media Landscape

 
Grant Goddard
DAB Is Dead
How the Digital Dream Turned Sour

 
Carlos Flores Borja
Local Hero
A Peruvian Station's Battle to Broadcast

 
Aleida Calleja
Interrupted Service
Community Radio on the Front Line in Mexico

 
Anat Balint
Piracy Goes Kosher
Israeli Settlers Join the Media Game

 
Kristen Ess Schurr
Taboo Buster
Jordan's Hero of the Airwaves

 
Shirazuddin Siddiqi
Real Lives
The Programme the Taliban Couldn't Ban

 
Ernest Waititu
Too Free too Fast
How Kenya's Broadcasters Fell Foul of the Law

 
 
PART THREE: BODY WORKS
Marge Berer
Covered up
The Full Frontal That Got Pulled

 
Omid Salehi
Make Me Beautiful
Inside the World of Iranian Cosmetic Surgery

 
 
PART FOUR: FICTION
Javad Mahzadeh
My Best Friend
Exclusive Extract from His Novel

 

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