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Monitoring Media Sustainability: Economic and Business Revisions to Development Indicators
In: What is Sustainable Journalism? Integrating the Environmental, Social, and Economic Challenges of Journalism
Peter Berglez, Ulrika Olausson, Mart Ots (eds.)
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2018), pp. 243-256
"Robert G. Picard describes the evolvement of UNESCO's media development indicators. The chapter describes a growing focus on economic, financial and managerial dimensions, since, it argues, they pave the fundament to any sustainable, commercial or non-commercial journalistic venture. What Picard cr
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Indicators
INTRAC (2017), 4 pp.
"Indicators are commonly used in social development to provide evidence of change. They form an important part of most monitoring and evaluation systems and approaches. There are many different types of indicator, including quantitative and qualitative indicators. They can be developed in different
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Programme Indicators
INTRAC (2017), 4 pp.
"Some programme indicators are designed to be collected at programme level. Others are designed to capture, summarise or aggregate information collected at project or partner level. It is important to clarify how information on indicators is transmitted between different levels of a programme." (Int
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Monitoring Media Pluralism in Europe: Testing and Implementation of the Media Pluralism Monitor 2015
Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies European University Institute (2016), 75 pp.
"The Media Pluralism Monitor (MPM) is a tool for assessing the risks for media pluralism in a given country. The Monitor aims to help policymakers, researchers, and civil society to understand the threat to media pluralism in different media systems through research, analysis and the provision of co
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El Indicador de la Rentabilidad Social en Comunicación (IRSCOM): Medir para transformar
CIC: Cuadernos de Información y Comunicación, volume 21 (2016), pp. 47-62
"El presente artículo aborda la construcción del Índice de Rentabilidad Social en Comunicación (IRSCOM), que pretende recoger valores ligados al funcionamiento de los medios audiovisuales, eludiendo la visión mercantilista, potenciando la participación ciudadana y la transparencia en su gesti
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The (Un)safe Practice of Journalism: An Analysis Based on UNESCO’s Journalists’ Safety Indicators Assessments
In: Freedom of Expression and Media in Transition: Studies and Reflections in the Digital Age
Ulla Carlsson (ed.)
Göteborg: Nordicom (2016), pp. 103-107
"Journalists around the world are being killed and threatened for doing their work. This is a serious hindrance to freedom of expression and the safe practice of journalism. UN and UNESCO have led the process to create the UN Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity to i
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Changing Media Landscapes in Transitional Countries: Handbook on Mapping Media Landscapes
International Media Support (IMS) (2016), 27 pp.
"The handbook is based on the authors’ varied experiences from consulting the implementation of media mappings in several transitional countries and it will focus on two of these projects: a. mapping the Mongolian media landscape initiated in 1999 ten years after the break down of Communism and b.
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Media Freedom Indices in the Media Development Context: How the Different Information Tools Can be Used
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2016), 10 pp.
"The existing international media freedom indices provide a variety of different information tools that contain important knowledge for media development practitioners. As shown, the different tools are of varying significance for the relevant purposes within the media development context: while som
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Measuring the Business Side: Indicators to Assess Media Viability
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2016), 10 pp.
"In times of digital transformation media all over the world have to come up with new ways to ensure their survival. Meanwhile, media development actors are searching for new concepts and orientation in their support of media organizations and media markets. This paper presents DW Akademie’s sugge
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Good Practice Study on Principles for Indicator Development, Selection, and Use in Climate Change Adaptation Monitoring and Evaluation
Climate-Eval Community of Practice (2015), viii, 87 pp.
"This study identifies and addresses key challenges concerning M&E for climate change adaptation (CCA). It does so by documenting good practices and good practice principles on the development, selection, and use of indicators used in the M&E of adaptation interventions. The study also looks at the
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Field Guide for Data Quality Management
Washington, DC: Pact (2014), 57 pp.
"Data quality is a cornerstone of accountability in program reporting. In the international development sector, although we are often focused on reporting, ensuring the quality of the data that we report is critical for our partners, our donors, and our beneficiaries. In addition, Data Quality Manag
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The Political and Ideological Dimension of the Measurement of Freedom of Information: Assessing the Interplay Between Neoliberalism and the Freedom of the Press Index
International Communication Gazette, volume 76, issue 6 (2014), pp. 505-527
"By illustrating the rise of neoliberalism as a case in point, the study hypothesises a neoliberal influence on the measurement of freedom of information. To test such assumption, the work describes three ideal typical models of freedom of information – the liberal, egalitarian and neoliberal mode
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Media Freedom Indices: What They Tell Us - and What They Don't. A Practical Guidebook
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2014), 67 pp.
"This guidebook aims to give the reader an overview of the existing international media freedom measures and how they can be used. By introducing the methodology and pointing out the strengths and weaknesses, it allows the readers to better understand, judge and thus critically reflect the indices
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Building indicators in media assistance: Four ways evaluation reports present "change"
Shanghai; Brisbane: 8-10 November 2013 ICA Regional Conference: Communication and Social Transformation; Queensland University of Technology (2013), 15 pp.
"This paper draws on some preliminary findings from a comparative thematic analysis of 47 evaluation documents of media assistance programs. The aim of this analysis is to identify trends in impact evaluation practice in the media assistance field, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of differen
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A Guidebook of Broadcast and Newspaper Indicators
Montreal: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2013), 78 pp.
"This guidebook has been developed for use by professionals, policymakers and the research community involved in media development around the world. Its development was based on the UIS questionnaires on media statistics (see Appendices II, III and IV). This guide is not intended to provide a full s
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Measuring Press Freedom and Media Sector Performance: How Social Media Have Affected the Media Sustainability Index
ESSACHESS: Journal for Communication Studies, volume 5, issue 1 (2012), pp. 29-43
"The present text explains how the Media Sustanability Index has refined its instrument and procedures to better capture the impact of social media." (Abstract)
A Pilot Study for GFMD’s Media Development Toolkit: Testing Standards, Strengthening Professionalism. An Assessment of Ghana’s Media Landscape
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA); IREX; Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD) (2012), 49 pp.
"The study did not aim to carry out new surveys or collect information that was not already publicly available. Since the toolkit is aimed at providing media development organizations with a tool to assess media landscapes without having to carry out extensive new research, the Ghana study worked on
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Adapting Concepts of Media Freedom to a Changing Media Environment: Incorporating New Media and Citizen Journalism Into the Freedom of the Press Index
ESSACHESS: Journal for Communication Studies, volume 5, issue 1 (2012), pp. 13-22
"The present article discusses how the new categoryof “citizen journalist” fits into the overall media environment and how the Freedom House Freedom of the Press methodology has been changed to incorporate this category." (Abstract)
Freedom of Expression, Media and Digital Communications: A Practical Guide
Key Guidance
EPRD Policy & Development; European Commission (2012), 39 pp.
"The European Commission has begun to integrate a political economy approach throughout the project cycle. This guide tailors the political economy approach to the media development sector specifically. Using a political economy media matrix (PEMM) as its basis, it explains how to integrate the PE a
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