Silvio Waisbord

Silvio Waisbord is Associate Professor and Director at the Journalism Resources Institute of Rutgers University. He is the author of Watchdog Journalism in South America: News, Accountability, and Democracy (Columbia U. Press 2000), and co-editor of Media and Globalization: Why the State Matters (Rowan & Littlefield, 2001).

<i>Grandes gigantes</i>: media concentration in Latin America

A lively polemic has developed in openDemocracy about media ownership. Where Bob McChesney finds nothing but a bleak world of concentration, Ben Compaine optimistically sees the flourishing of media choices.

By Silvio Waisbord

/ 27 Feb 2002

Hybrid media helps democracy breathe

Media privatisation has not triggered many concerns about the future of public broadcasting in Latin America. In the last two decades, governments have put the finishing touches to the private

By Silvio Waisbord

/ 7 Aug 2001