Media and Accountability in Latin America - Framework - Conditions - Instruments

This study approaches a pressing question for the public, the media, and in academia: how can the media be held accountable? By focusing on the relationship between media and accountability in the understudied region of Latin America, Mariella Bastian provides a theoretical framework for the analysis of media accountability (MA) beyond the Global North. The underlying conditions for the development of MA in Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay are identified by conducting a multi-method study. The author also gives an overview of the status quo of the implementation of both traditional and innovative MA instruments. 


Dr. Mariella Bastian is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Information Law (University of Amsterdam). Her research interests include media accountability, media ethics, news personalization, Latin American media systems, media & democracy, and international journalism.