The Arabic-language version of “Television and Elections” is being used in Iraq to train Iraqi journalists to cover elections. Laura Roselle, professor of political science, provided updates and modifications to the original book, which was published by the Commission on Radio and Television Policy and the DeWitt Wallace Center for Communications and Journalism at Duke University.
Roselle joined the project for the second edition, which has been translated into Arabic, Armenian, Belarusan, Bosnian, Bulgarian, French, Hungarian, Kazakh, Lithuanian, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Tajik, and Ukrainian. The book presents options for covering elections and discusses the tradeoffs involved in the application of new media policies in the real world. Its use in Iraq is only the latest application of this guidebook on media structure and politics.