Books Authored

English

• Reinventing Journalism: News, Professionalism and Globalization, Polity, forthcoming.
• Watchdog Journalism in South America: News, Accountability and Democracy. Columbia University Press, 2000.

Spanish

• Duelo [Duel/Mourning]. Buenos Aires: Biblos, 2009.
• El Gran Desfile: Campañas Electorales y Medios de Comunicación en la Argentina [The Great Parade: Election Campaigns and Mass Media in Argentina]. Buenos Aires: Sudamericana, 1995.

Books Edited

English

• (with R. Obregon) Handbook of Global Health Communication, Wiley, forthcoming.
• (with E. Fox) Local Politics, Global Media: Latin American Broadcasting and Policy. University of Texas Press, 2002
• (with N. Morris) Media and Globalization: Why the State Matters. Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.

Spanish

• (with M. Petracci) Comunicación y Salud Pública: Enfoques para Estudio y Práctica [Communication and Public Health: Approaches for Study and Practice]. Buenos Aires: La Crujia, 2011.

Articles in Refereed Journals

• (with M. Szurmuk) The impasse of the studies of media and culture in Latin America: How to move forward, Westminster Papers of Communication and Culture, forthcoming.
• Between support and confrontation: Civic society, media reform, and populism in Latin America, Communication, Culture and Critique 4: 97-117, March 2011.
• Can NGOs change the news? International Journal of Communication, 5: 142–165, 2011.
• Cuando la salud es titular: Dengue, gripe AH1N1 y ciclos “mediáticos-epidémicos” (When health is the headline: Dengue fever, AH1N1 flu and media-epidemic cycles), Folios 23: 93-104, 2010.
• The pragmatic politics of media reform: Media movements and coalition-building in Latin America, Global Media and Communication, 6 (2):133-153, 2010.
• (with R. Obregon) The complexity of social mobilization in health communication: Top-down and bottom-up experiences in polio eradication, Journal of Health Communication 15 (1): 25-47, 2010.
• (lead author, with E. Ogden, L. Shimp, and C. Morry) Communication for polio eradication: Improving the quality of communication programming through real-time monitoring and evaluation, Journal of Health Communication, 15 (1): 9-24, 2010.
• Participatory communication for tuberculosis control in prisons in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Paraguay, Pan American Journal of Public Health, 27 (3): 168-174, 2010.
• (lead author, with E. Peruzzotti) The environmental story that wasn’t: Advocacy, journalism, and the asambleismo movement in Argentina, Media, Culture & Society, 31(4): 691-709, 2009.
• Research directions for global journalism studies: Ideas from Latin America, Journalism, 10 (3), 2009.
• The institutional challenges of participatory communication in international aid, Social Identities, 14(4): 505-522, 2008.
• (lead author with T. Michaelides and M. Rasmuson) Communication and social capital in the control of avian influenza: Lessons from behaviour change experiences in the Mekong region, Global Public Health 3(2): 197-213, 2008.
• Beyond the medical-informational model: Recasting the role of communication in tuberculosis control, Social Science & Medicine 65(10): 2130-2134, 2007.
• Missed opportunities: Communication in the Polio Eradication Initiative, Communication for Development and Social Change, 1 (2): 145-165, 2007.
• Democratic journalism and “statelessness,” Political Communication, 24:115-129, 2007.
• When training is insufficient: Reflections on capacity development in health promotion in Peru, Health Promotion International, 21(3):230-237, 2006.
• McTV: Understanding the global popularity of television formats, Television and New Media, 5 (4): 359-383, 2004. Re-published in Horace Newcomb ed., Television: A Critical View, 8th edition, Oxford University Press, 2006; McTv. Bidrag til en forståelse af tv-formaternes globale popularitet,, MedieKultur (Sweden) 39: 14-27.
• Scandals, media, and citizenship in contemporary Argentina, American Behavioral Scientist, 47: 1072-1098, 2004.
• (with H. Tumber) Introduction: Political scandals and media across democracies, American Behavioral Scientist, 47: 1031 – 1039, 1143 – 1152, 2004.
• Cinco idéias-chave: Coincidências e desafios na comunicação para o desenvolvimento, Revista Brasileira de Ciências da Comunicação 26, 2 July/December 2003. Republished Five Key Ideas: Coincidences and Challenges in Development Communication, in Thomas Tufte and Oscar Hemer eds., Media & Glocal Change: Rethinking Communication for Development. Nordicom and CLACSO, 2005.
• Antipress violence and the crisis of the state, Harvard International Journal Press/Politics, 7 (3): 90-109, 2002.
• The challenges of investigative journalism, University of Miami Law Journal, 56 (1): 377-395, 2002.
• Introduction: Journalism and new technologies. Journalism (2) 2:171-173, August 2001.
• The ties that still bind: Media and national cultures in Latin America. Canadian Journal of Communication, 23: 381-401, 1998. A Portuguese translation was published in Comunicação & Politica (Brazil) 6, 1: 185-208, January-April 1999.
• When the cart of media is before the horse of identity: A critique of technology-centered views on globalization. Communication Research 25 (4): 377-398, 1998.
• What’s the online news? Digital dailies in Latin America. Electronic Journal of Communication, 7 (2), 1997.
• Can investigative journalism tell the truth? The modernity of journalism in Latin America. Ecquid Novi 18 (1): 115-131, 1997. A revised version in Spanish “¿Nada mas que la verdad? Periodismo fiscalizador, investigación y modernidad [Only the Truth? Watchdog Journalism, Investigation and Modernity] published in Diálogos de la Comunicación, 51: 47-59, 1998. Lima, Perú.
• The narrative of exposes in South American journalism: Telling the story of Collorgate. Gazette: The International Journal for Communication Studies, 59 (3): 189-198, 1997.
• Investigative journalism and political accountability in South American democracies. Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 13: 343-363, 1996.
• Leviathan dreams: State and broadcasting in Latin America. The Communication Review 1 (2): 201-226, 1995.
• Farewell to public spaces? Electoral campaigns and street spectacle in Argentina. Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, 15: 279-300, 1995.
• Knocking on newsroom doors: Press and political scandals in Argentina. Political Communication 11: 19-33, Spring 1994.
• Television and election campaigns in contemporary Argentina. Journal of Communication 44 (2): 125-135, Spring 1994.
• Politics and Identity in the Argentine army: Cleavages and the generational factor. Latin American Research Review 26 (2): 57-70, Spring 1991.

Chapters in Books

• A globalized industry: Television regulation and ownership, In Toby Miller, Milly Buonanno and Herman Gray eds., Sage Handbook of Television Studies. Sage, forthcoming.
• Globalization, In Patricia Moy ed., Oxford Bibliographies Online, forthcoming.
• Political communication in Latin America, In Holli Semetko and Margaret Scamell eds., Handbook of Political Communication. Routledge, forthcoming.
• Models and bureaucratic imperatives in international media assistance. In Monroe Price and Susan Abbott eds., Evaluating the Evaluators: Measures of Press Freedom and Media Contributions to Development, 321-337. Palgrave, 2011.
• Prologue, In Ricardo Thornton and Gustavo Cimadevilla Eds., Usos y abusos del participare [Uses and abuses of participare], 17-21. Buenos Aires: INTA, 2010.
• Press and the public sphere in contemporary Latin America. In Pippa Norris eds., Public Sentinel: News Media and Governance Reform. Washington: World Bank, 2010.
• (lead author, with S. Jalfin) Imagining the nation: Gatekeepers and the localization of television franchises. In Albert Moran ed., TV Formats: Localizing Global Programs, 55-74. Intellect, 2009.
• Bridging the press-civic society divide: Civic media advocacy in Latin America. In Ulla Carlson ed., Media and Social Divides, NORDICOM, 2009. A Spanish version, “Tender puentes entre la prensa y la sociedad civil,” was published in Comunicación (Venezuela), 145: 4-13, 2009.
• News coverage of risk. In Christopher Sterling ed., Encyclopedia of Journalism. Thousand Oaks: SAGE, 2009.
• 7. Periodismo y democracia donde no hay Estado. In Andrés Canizalez ed., Tiempos de Cambio: Política y Comunicación en America Latina. Caracas: Universidad Andrés Bello, 2009.
• 8. (with S. Craft) When foreign news are foreign. In Elisabeth Eide, Risto Kunelius and Angela Phillips eds., Transnational Media Events: The Mohammed Cartoons and the Imagined Clash of Civilizations, 133-150. Goteborg: NORDICOM, 2008.
• Advocacy journalism in a global context: The ‘journalist’ and the ‘civic’ model. In Karin Wohl-Jorgensen and Thomas Hanitzsch eds., Handbook of Journalism Studies, 371-385. London: New York, 2008.
• Participación comunitaria. In Mónica Szurmuk and Robert McKee Irwin eds., Diccionario de Estudios Culturales Latinoamericanos. Mexico: Siglo XXI, 2009. An English version will be published by the University of Florida, forthcoming.
• Modernization. In Wolfgang Donsbach ed., International Encyclopedia of Communication, 3151-3156, 2007.
• In journalism we trust? Credibility and fragmented journalism in Latin America. In Katrin Voltmer ed., Mass Media and Political Communication in New Democracies. London: Routledge, 2006.
• Linking communication for campaign and routine immunization: In need of a bifocal view. In Muhiuddin Haider ed., Global Public Health Communication, 275-290. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett, 2005.
• (with M. Schudson) Toward a political sociology of the news media. In Thomas Janoski, Robert Alford, Alexander Hicks, and Mildred A. Schwartz eds., The Handbook of Political Sociology, 350-366. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
• Media and the reinvention of the nation. In John Downing et al. eds., Handbook of Media Studies, 375-392. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2004. Republished in Spanish in Lila Luchessi and Maria Graciela Rodriguez Eds., Fronteras Globales: Cultura, Política y Medios de Comunicación. Buenos Aires: La Crujia.
• (with R. Zeta de Pozo and F. Ruiz), Los medios de comunicación en América Latina. In Carlos Barrera ed., Historia del Periodismo Universal, 319-374. Madrid: Ariel, 2004.
• (with J. Deane) The other information revolution: Media and empowerment in developing countries. In Bruce Girard and Sean O Siochrú eds., Communicating in the Information Society, 65-100. Geneva: UNRISD, 2004.
• Media populism: Neopopulism in Latin America. In Gianpietro Mazzoleni, Bruce Horsfield, and Julianne Stewart eds., The Media and Neo-Populist Movements, 197-216. Westport: Praeger, 2003.
• Journalism, risk and patriotism. In Barbie Zelizer and Stuart Allan eds., Journalism after September 11, 201-219. London: Routledge, 2002. Revised and updated, Journalism after September 11 2nd edition, 273-291, 2011
• State of the media in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay, Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications, 2002.
• Interpretando los escándalos: Análisis de su relación con los medios y la ciudadanía en la Argentina contemporánea (Interpreting Scandals: Media and citizenship in contemporary Argentina). In Enrique Peruzzotti y Catalina Smulovitz eds., Controlando la Política: Ciudadanos y Medios en las Nuevas Democracias. Buenos Aires, Editorial Temas, 2002.
• State, development, and communication. In William Gudykunst and Bella Mody eds., Handbook of Intercultural and International Communication 437-455. Sage, 2001.
• (with N. Morris) Introduction: Rethinking media globalization and state power. In Nancy Morris and Silvio Waisbord eds., Media and Globalization: Why the State Matters, vii-xvi. Lanham, MD: Rowan & Littlefield, 2001.
• Media in South America: Between the rock of the state and the hard place of the market. In James Curran and Myung-Jin Park eds., De-Westernizing Media Studies, 50-62. London: Routledge, 2000.
• The unfinished project of media democratization in Argentina. In Patrick O'Neil ed., Communicating Democracy: The Media & Political Transitions, 41-62. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rinner, 1999. Revised version of a paper presented at the International Conference on Media & Politics, Brussels, Belgium. February 1997.
• Latin America. In Anthony Smith ed., Television: An International History, 254-263. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
• The market deluge: Privatization, concentration and new technologies in the Argentine Media. In Alan B. Albarran and Sylvia Chan-Olmsted eds., Global Media Economics: Commercialization, Concentration and Integration of World Media Markets, 81-96. Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 1998.
• Secular politics: The modernization of Argentine electioneering. In Paolo Mancini and David L. Swanson eds., Politics, Media and Modern Democracy, 207-225. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996.
• The mass media and consolidation of democracy in South America. In Philo Wasburn ed., Research in Political Sociology, Volume 7, 207-227. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1995.

Articles, Reports, and Other Non-refereed Publications

• “Switching development tracks?, Commentary on “Public Media and Political Independence: Lessons for the Future of Journalism from Around the World" by Rodney Benson and Matthew Powers, http://www.savethenews.org/public-media/international-models, February 2011.
• El error del periodismo militante [The mistake of partisan journalism], La Nación (Argentina), January 12, 2011.
• La irrupción del “Wikiperiodismo” [The rise of Wikijournalism], La Nación (Argentina), December 12, 2010.
• Regulating Hate Speech in the Bolivian Media: Underlying Issues, Jurist: Legal news and Research, http://jurist.org/forum/2010/11/regulating-hate-speech-in-the-bolivian-media-underlying-issues.php
• An All-Out Media War: It’s Clarin vs. the Kirchners, and journalism is the loser, Columbia Journalism Review, September/October 2010.
• Profesionalización en debate, Anuario FOPEA (Argentina), 22-23, 2010.
• (with J. Deane) How to use communication to make aid effective: Strategies and principles for Programme-based Approaches, BBC World Service Trust, 2010.
• Where is communication in the Millennium Development Goals?, Media Development 3/2006, 3-7. Reprinted in Spanish in Comunicación (Venezuela), 137, 10-15.
• The irony of communication for social change, MAZI, August 2007, www.communicationforsocialchange.org
• Communicating communication, Media Development 2005/2. Originally published in The Communication Initiative, February 7, 2005, http://www.comminit.com/drum_beat_285.html
• (with H. Larson) Why Invest in Communication for Immunization? Evidence and Lessons Learned. Baltimore: Heath Communication Partnership, Johns Hopkins University, 2005.
• (with G. Coe) Comunicación, periodismo, salud y desafíos para el nuevo milenio, Razón y Palabra (Mexico), 2004 www.razonypalabra.org.mx
• Grandes gigantes: Media concentration in Latin America, OpenDemocracy, www.opendemocracy.org, February 27, 2002.
• Family tree of theories, methodologies, and strategies in development communication: Convergences and differences, 2001 The Communication Initiative, www.comminit.org. Partially republished in Alfonso Gumucio-Dagron and Thomas Tufte Eds., Communication for Social Change Anthology: Historical and Contemporary Readings, 561-566. Communication for Social Change Consortium.
• Nuevas tendencias y escenarios futuros en el periodismo: Oportunidades para el periodismo en salud [New trends and future scenarios in journalism: Opportunities for health journalism], Dia-logos de la Comunicación, July 2001, 84-95.
• Hasta la vista public broadcasting, Open Democracy, www.opendemocracy.org August 9, 2001.
• El buen periodismo: Las contradicciones irresueltas del periodismo de investigación [The good journalism: The unsolved contradictions of investigative journalism], Contribuciones 2 (2001):105-116.
• Why Democracy Needs Investigative Journalism, Global Issues, April 2001 6 (1) http://usinfo.state.gov/cgi-bin/washfile/display.pl Also published as Por qué la democracia necesita del periodismo de investigación, Sala de Prensa 32 (June 2001) www.saladeprensa.org
• Entre bien público y bien privado: Definiendo la información en la sociedad de la información [Between public and private good: defining information in the information society], Reflexiones Académicas (Santiago, Chile), June 2001. A previous version was presented at the Asociación Iberoamericana de Comunicación (IBERCOM) conference, Santiago de Chile, April 2000.
• Industria global, culturas y políticas locales: La internacionalización de la televisión latinoamericana [Global industry, local cultures and politics: The internationalization of Latin American television], América Latina Hoy 25 (Salamanca, Spain) (August 2000): 77-85. A previous version was presented at the Asociación Latinomericana de
• Investigadores de Comunicación (ALAIC) conference, Santiago de Chile, April 2000.
• Repensar la prensa en las democracias latinoamericanas [Rethinking the press in Latin American democracies], Problèmes d'Amérique Latine.
• La política del palo: Violence against the press, Hemisphere, 9 (2): 30-33, Spring 2000. Article also published in Pulso del Periodismo, www.pulso.org/espanol/articulos/silviobody.htm
• Latin American press follows Clinton scandal with fascination, incomprehension. Free, The Freedom Forum Online www.freedomforum.org/international/1998/10/7telenovelas. asp
• What’s in a name? The many lives of alternative media. Media Development 45 (3): 45-48, 1998.
• Campañas electorales en América Latina y Estados Unidos: Una perspectiva comparada de campañas [Election Campaigns in Latin America and in the United States: A Comparative Approach], Contribuciones 14 (2):159-182, 1997. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• Promesas y dudas del periodismo cibernético [Promises and Doubts of CyberJournalism], Pulso del Periodismo (Abril/Junio) 26: 38-39, 1996. Miami, Florida. A Portuguese version was published in May 1997 in the online edition of Conex@o, Brazil, www.conexao.com.br/colunas/waisbord.htm.
• Contando Historias de Corrupção: Narrativa de Telenovela e Moralidade Populista no caso Collorgate [Telling Stories of Corruption: Soap Opera Narrative and Populist Morality in Collorgate] Comunicação & Politica (May-August) 3, 2: 94-110, 1996. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• Escándalos: La Prensa y la Política en el Perú y America Latina [Scandals: Press and Politics in Perú and Latin America]. Argumentos (August) 27: 7-9, 1995. Lima, Perú.
• A Sign of the Times: Television and Electoral Politics in Argentina, 1983-1989. Kellogg Working Papers #190, University of Notre Dame.
• Medios de Comunicación y Campañas Electorales [Mass Media and Election Campaigns] Doxa, Spring-Summer: 33-47, 1991/1992. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• (with H. Muraro and M. Petracci), La Industria Cinematográfica Argentina entre 1976-1983 [The Argentine Filmmaking Industry, 1976-1983] Instituto para América Latina (IPAL), 1987. Lima, Perú.

Book Reviews and Notes

• Posthegemony by Jon Beasley, International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, forthcoming.
• Negotiating Democracy, edited by Isaac Blankson and Patrick Murphy, Political Communication 26 (4): 479-481, 2009.
• Latin America, Media and Revolution: Communication in Modern Mesoamerica by Juanita Darling, Journal of Communication, 59 (1): 195-196, 2009.
• The Myths of Media Globalization by Kai Hafez, British Journal of Sociology, 59 (3): 592 - 594, 2008.
• Newsrooms in Conflict by Sallie Hughes, Democratization, 14 (3), 521-523, 2007.
• Media Power in Central America by Rick Rockell and Noreene Janus, The Americas 61 (4), 729-730, 2005.
• Political Scandals by John B. Thompson, Contemporary Sociology, 2002.
• Social Meanings of News edited by Dan Berkowitz , Media Development, 1998.
• Communication in Latin America: Journalism, Mass Media and Society by Richard Cole ed., Media, Culture and Society 19 (4), 1997.

Refereed Conference Papers

• Between support and confrontation: Civic society, media reform, and populism in Latin America, conference of the International Association of Mass Communication Research, Braga, Portugal, 2010.
• The pragmatic politics of media reform, conference of the International Communication Association, Singapore, 2010.
• Media democratization: The case for political approaches to development, conference of the International Studies Association, New Orleans, 2010.
• (with A. Jones) Impact of real-world conditions on media assistance programs, conference of the International Studies Association, New Orleans, 2010.
• The professionalization of advocacy journalism, conference of the International Communication Association, Chicago, 2009.
• Operational models and bureaucratic imperatives in the global promotion of media diversity, conference of the International Communication Association, Chicago, 2009.
• Risk news and global health, conference of the International Communication Association, San Francisco, 2007.
• Misunderstanding communication: Reflection of the experience of communication programs in the Polio Eradication Initiative, Conference of the International Communication Association, New York, 2005.
• Conference of the International Communication Association, San Diego, 2003.
• Post-National Citizenship and Its Limitations: A View from Media Studies, conference of the International Communication Association, Acapulco, 2000.
• (with Nancy Morris) Media and Globalization: Why the State Matters, UNESCO conference, Paris, June 1999. Reading Scandals: Scandals, Media and Citizenship in Argentina, conference of the International Communication Association, San Francisco, May 1999. Nation-bounded: Regional Media and the Politics of Television Sports in Latin America, Conference of the International Communication Association, Jerusalem, Israel, July 1998.
• Latin American Television and National Identities. Presented at the Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA). Chicago, 1996. Habermas, Street Events and Politics in Public Spaces. Presented at the conference of the International Communication Association. New Mexico, 1995. LatinTVSpace and the Dilemmas of Globalization in the Americas. Presented at the Latin
• American Culture Program of the University of Pennsylvania, April 1995.

Editorships, Editorial Boards, and Reviewing Activities for Journals and Other Learned Publications

• Editor-in-Chief: International Journal of Press/Politics, 2007-present.
• Board member: Asociación de Comunicación Política (Spain, 2010-present), Brazilian Journalism Research (2002-present), Comunicazione Politica (2005-present), Journalism (1998-present), Revista Latina de Comunicación Social (2009-present), Worlds of Journalism Study’s Scientific Advisory Committee (2011-present).
• Guest Editor: Journalism, “Journalism and new technologies,” August 2001.

Manuscript Reviewer Journals

• Acta Poetica (Mexico) (2006)
• African Journal of Microbiology Research (2010)
• American Behavioral Scientist (2009) Brazilian Journalism Review (Brazil) (2005, 2007)
• Canadian Journal of Communication (1998)
• Communication Theory (1999), Comunicazione Politica (Italy) (2006) Critical Studies in Mass Communication (2005-2007)
• Global Journal of Communication (2009)
• Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics (1999)
• Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses (2010)
• International Journal of Communication (2010)
• Journal of Communication (1998) Journal of Health Communication (2011)
• Journal of Media Economics (1998) Journalism (1998-present)
• Media, Culture & Society (2009) Mobilization (2005)
• Political Communication (2006, 2008)
• Scandinavian Political Studies (2010) Social Science & Medicine (2006, 2009, 2010)
• Sociology (2008)
• The Communication Review (1996-1997)
• The Lancet (2007)
• Book manuscripts, prospectus, and entries
• Cambridge University Press (2004, 2008), Hampton Press (2001), Oxford University Press (2010), Polity Press (2005, 2010), and University of Pittsburgh Press (2010).

Conference Papers

• International Communication Association
• Global Communication and Social Change Division (2001-2011)
• Mass Communication Division (2003)
• Intercultural/Development Division (2007)
• Journalism Studies (2010)
• Political Communication (2010)
• AEJMC
• International Communication Division (1998)