Kaarle Nordenstreng
Kaarle Tapani Jorma Johannes Magnus Bertel Nordenstreng is a Finnish media scholar. He is Professor Emeritus of Journalism and Mass Communication at the Tampere University.
Life
Kaarle Nordenstreng studied psychology at the University of Helsinki, gaining a PhD in 1969. He joined the faculty of the University of Tampere in 1965, and became head of research at the Finnish Broadcasting Company in 1967. In 1971 he was appointed Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Tampere. From 1971 to 1976 he was a Member of the UNESCO Panel of Consultants on Communication Research. From 1972 to 1978 he was Vice-President of the International Association For Media And Communication Research. From 1976 to 1990 he was President of the International Organization of Journalists. He was Honorary Professor at Saint Petersburg State University in 2008, and Moscow University in 2009.
Publications
Most notable books in English: Television Traffic - a One-way Street?: A Survey and Analysis of the International Flow of Television Programme Material. UNESCO, 1974National Sovereignty and International Communication, 1979 The Mass Media Declaration of UNESCO, 1984The Global Media Debate: Its Rise, Fall, and Renewal, 1991Beyond National Sovereignty: International Communication in the 1990s, 1992Towards Equity in Global Communication: MacBride Update, 1999International Media Monitoring, 1999.Russian Media Challenge, 2001Normative Theories of the Media: Journalism in Democratic Societies, 2009Communication Theories in a Multicultural World, 2014Mapping BRICS Media, 2015A History of the International Movement of Journalists: Professionalism Versus Politics, 2016BRICS Reshaping the Global Communication Order, 2021Basics of IAMCR History, 2022Coverage of the Russia-Ukraine War by Television News in Nine Countries, 2023