Journalism and Democracy in Asia addresses key issues of freedom, democracy, citizenship, openness and journalism in contemporary Asia, looking especially at China, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, the Philippines and India. The authors take varying approaches to questions of democracy, whilst also considering journalism in print, radio and new media, in relation to such questions as the role of social, political and economic liberalization in bringing about a blooming of the media, the relationship between the media and the development of democracy and civil society, and how journalism copes under authoritarian rule.

Chapter 1 Asian Journalism, Angela Romano; Chapter 2 Going Online, Terence Lee; Chapter 3 Changing Connections, Joyce Y.M. Nip; Chapter 4 International Aid and The News Sector in Cambodia, Judith Clarke; Chapter 5 Media Plurality or Democratic Deficit?, Daya Kishan Thussu; Chapter 6 The Surrogate Democracy Function of the Media, Joseph M. Chan, Clement Y.K. So; Chapter 7 Democracy, the Press and Civil Society in Hong Kong, Paul S.N. Lee; Chapter 8 Media Change through Bounded Innovations, Pan Zhongdang; Chapter 9 Between Dictatorship and Democracy, Angela Romano, Blythe Seinor; Chapter 10 Democratization and Changing State-Media Relations in South Korea, Ki-Sung Kwak; Chapter 11 Cable Television and Democratization in Taiwan and South Korea, Rodney Tiffen, Ki-Sung Kwak; Chapter 12 Protesting the 1994 Okinawa Rape Incident, Elizabeth Naoko MacLachlan; Chapter 13 The 'Straight' Times, Laurence Wai-Teng Leong;