The Rise and Fall of the International Organization of Journalists Based in Prague 1946 - 2016. Useful Recollections, Part III

This is a unique history of what in the 1980s was the world’s largest association in the
media field. However, the IOJ was embroiled in the Cold War: the bulk of 300,000
members were in the socialist East and developing South. Hence the collapse of the
Soviet-led communist order in central-eastern Europe in 1989–91 precipitated the IOJ’s
demise.
The author – a Finnish journalism educator and media scholar – served as President of
the IOJ during its heyday. In addition to a chronological account of the organization, the
book includes testimonies by actors inside and outside the IOJ and comprehensive
appendices containing unpublished documents.