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Media Assistance: Law & Regulation, Media Policy Consultancies
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Media Assistance in Conflict Regions & Fragile Countries
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Media Landscapes, Media Systems, Media Situation in General
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Media Law & Regulation
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Social Media
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Media Assistance: Donor Organizations
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Digital Media Censorship, Control & Filtering, Internet & Social Media Censorship
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Media Viability & Financial Sustainability
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Media Assistance: Journalism Education & Training
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Media Law & Regulation: Transitional Countries
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Democracy / Democratization and Media
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Media Assistance: Financial Sustainability & Management
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Media Assistance: Transition Countries & Defective Democracies
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Media & Communication Policies
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Authoritarian Regimes: Media Systems & Landscapes
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Indirect Censorship, Soft Censorship
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Media Assistance: Evaluation, Monitoring, Impact Assessment
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Media Assistance: Media & Information Literacy
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Diversity & Pluralism in Media / Communication
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Cybersecurity, Digital Safety, Privacy, Right to Privacy
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Media Assistance: Freedom of Expression & Safety of Journalists
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Media / Communication Control
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Internet Censorship Circumvention Tools & Strategies
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Citizen Journalism, Community Journalism
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Journalism Education & Training
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Safety of Journalists, Safety Risks of Media Workers
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USA: Media Assistance
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Media & Information Literacy
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Freedom of Expression Online, Internet Freedom
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Violence Against Journalists & Media Personnel
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State Influence on the Media
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Government Communication Strategies
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Digital Communication, Digital Media
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Big Digital Platforms, Big Tech Companies
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Media Assistance: Digital Journalism & Social Media
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Digital Journalism, Online Journalism
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Media Ownership
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Journalism / Communication Training Centers
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China: Transnational Information Operations, International Broadcasting, Public Diplomacy
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Media Assistance Donors: Foundations & Private Donors
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Media Assistance: Regional Approaches & Experiences
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Transition Countries: Media Systems & Media Landscapes
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Internet Governance, Internet Policies
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Governance & Accountability: Role of Media / Communication
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Media Capture, Vested Political & Other Interests in the Media
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Political Transition and Media
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Public Media, State Media
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Access to Internet & Digital Communications
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Access to Public Information, Freedom of Information, Right to Information
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Advertising Markets & Industries
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Digital Activism, Cyber Advocacy
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Media Use: Youth
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News Consumption & Information Sources of Media Users
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Trust in the Media, Credibility of Media
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Media Assistance: Authoritarian Countries
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Chilling Effects (Discouragement of Legitimate Exercise of Legal Rights)
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Freedom of Expression
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Killings of Journalists & Media Personnel
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Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP)
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Public Diplomacy, Cultural Diplomacy
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Military: Communication Strategies & Practices
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Community Radios
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Media Assistance: Community Radios
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Conflict Areas: Media Systems, Media Landscapes, Role of Media
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Algorithms & Big Data
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Political Blogging
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Twitter & Microblogs
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Digitalization, Digital Transformation
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Media Concentration
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Ethics in Media & Communication
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Defamation Law & Regulation
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Self-Regulation of Media
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Media Law & Regulation: International Standards & Practices
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UNESCO & IPDC Media Assistance
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United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
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Investigative Journalism
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Media Assistance: Investigative Journalism
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Journalism Education Curricula
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Mobile Journalism, Video Journalism
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News
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China: Media Assistance
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Media Assistance: Country Strategies & Experiences
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Media Assistance: Governance, Accountability, Combating Corruption
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Media Assistance: Impacts, Effectiveness, Efficiency
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Media Assistance: Interaction with Military Communication Strategies
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Media Assistance: Radio
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Media Assistance: Self-Regulation, Accountability & Transparency of Media
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Public Funding & Support Policies for Media
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Licensing of Media
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Politics and Media
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Election Campaigns: Social Media
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Research in Media & Communication
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Communication & Media Indicators
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Digital Television
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Mobile Phones, Smartphones
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Access to Media & Information
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Access to Information Laws, Right to Information Regulation
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Digital Divide, Digital Inequalities
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Government Advertising, State Advertising
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Civic Engagement, Citizen Participation, Civil Society & Media
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Audience Research
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Audience Research in Media Assistance
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Behavior Tracking & Cookies
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Digital & Social Media Use, Internet Use
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Digital & Social Media Use: Youth
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Mobile Phone Use
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Independent & Oppositional Media in Authoritarian Regimes
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Encryption, Cryptology
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Data Protection: Law & Regulation
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Exile Journalism, Exile Media
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Freedom of Expression Lobbying & Communication Rights Campaigning
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Censorship Circumvention Tools & Strategies
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Surveillance, Surveillance Technologies, Spyware
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Right to be Forgotten
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International Organizations: Communication Strategies & Practices
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Community Media Impact
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Community Radio Sustainability & Financing
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Participatory Communication
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Conflict-Sensitive Radio Journalism, Radio in Conflict Prevention & Transformation
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Conflicts & Wars: Roles of Digital Technologies & Conflict Narratives in Social Media
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Hate Speech, Hate Speech in Social Media
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Media Assistance: Conflict Prevention, Mediation & Reconciliation
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Media Law & Regulation in Conflict Areas
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Content Analysis (Research Method)
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Donor Coordination, Funder Collaboration, Aid Harmonsation
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Financing Nonprofit Organizations
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ICT / Internet Projects (Development Aid)
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Free Basics (Facebook Internet Access Programme)
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Regional Cooperation, South-South Collaboration
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Development and Media
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Data Journalism, Computer-Assisted Investigative Reporting
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Digital Platform & Intermediaries Regulation
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Digital & Information Literacy
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Google
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Governance & Accountability: Role of Digital Communication
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Internet
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Internet / Social Media Law & Regulation
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Internet Shutdowns
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Online Magazines & Newspapers
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Digital Market Concentration
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Financing Digital / Online Media
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Search Engines
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Online News
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Democratization & Digital Media / Social Media
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Facebook
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Economic Development: Role of ICTs & Media
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Diaspora Media
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Media Assistance: Disasters & Humanitarian Crises
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Disinformation, Misinformation, Fake News
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Countering Hate Speech, Disinformation & Propaganda
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Disinformation & Misinformation Law & Regulation
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Election Campaigns: Disinformation & Misinformation
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Media Markets
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Foreign Media Investments, Foreign Media Ownership
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Nonprofit Journalism, Nonprofit Media
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Political Economy of Media
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Taxes
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Universities
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Political Parody and Satire
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Environmental Journalism
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Media Assistance: Environmental Communication
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Accountability & Transparency of the Media
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Defamation of Religion (Blasphemy)
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Bribery & Corruption in Journalism
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Codes of Journalistic Ethics
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Press Councils
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Female Journalists & Media Workers
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Gender-Sensitive Journalism
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Media Assistance: Gender Focus
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Good Practice Examples
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Influence of Media on Foreign & International Policies
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Media Assistance: Transnational Exchange & Cooperation
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Regional (Transnational) Integration & Communication
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Transnational Broadcasting, International Broadcasting
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Satellite Television
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Transnational Television, International Television
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United Nations (UN)
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United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
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UNICEF
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Journalism Training in Conflict Areas
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Journalists
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Safety of Journalists: Law & Public Policies
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Television News
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Business & Economics Journalism
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Corruption Reporting & Role of Media in Curbing Corruption
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Election Reporting
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Local Radios, Local Radio Programmes
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Arab States: Media Assistance (Provided by Arab States)
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Australia: Media Assistance
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Austria: Media Assistance
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Belgium: Media Assistance
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Canada: Media Assistance
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Denmark: Media Assistance
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European Union: Media Assistance
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France: Media Assistance
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Germany: Media Assistance Actors, Practices, Priorities
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Ireland: Media Assistance
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Japan: Media Assistance
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Media Assistance: Citizen Participation & Civil Society
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Media Assistance: Exile Media
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Media Assistance: Local Journalism & Media
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Portugal: Media Assistance
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Spain: Media Assistance
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United Kingdom: Media Assistance
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Crowdsourcing
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Media Literacy: Youth
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Consumer Protection
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Frequency Allocation, Radio Frequency & Spectrum Management
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National Security Legislation
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Ombudsmen
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Television Law & Regulation
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Media Management
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Media Outlets, Media Associations
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Malaysiakini (Online News Portal, Malaysia)
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Military
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Fragile / Post-Conflict States
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Influence of Media on Politics
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Propaganda
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Radio
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Radio Okapi (Democratic Republic of Congo)
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Taliban
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Islamic Cultures: Role of Media
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Research Methods
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Statistical Data: Collection, Analysis & Interpretation
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Civil Society
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Digital Switchover
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Internet Service Providers (ISPs)
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Television
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China Global Television Network, CGTN (formerly China Central Television, CCTV)
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Captured News Media: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and Montenegro
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2016), 16 pp.
"Political and business elites in the countries that are the subject of this report have acquired control over a large number of public and private media, mostly through non-transparent privatization, advertising and/or budgetary support to loyal media. Consequently, media freedoms and freedom of ex
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Cuba’s Parallel Worlds: Digital Media Crosses the Divide
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2016), 25 pp.
"For many years, the media development conversation regarding Cuba has largely focused on the country’s harsh censorship practices and other restrictions on freedom of expression. Those concerns remain. But with the opening of relations with the United States over the past two years, the conversat
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Media in Latin America: A Path Forward
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2016), 8 pp.
"The Center for International Media Assistance and Deutsche Welle Akademie have launched a series of regional consultations with media stakeholders–civil society and media watchdog NGOs, broadcast regulators, academics, media industry representatives, government officials, and others in the media
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Media as a Form of Aid in Humanitarian Crises
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2016), 6 pp.
Advancing Independent Journalism While Building a Modern News Business: The Case of Malaysiakini
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2015), 12 pp.
"Malaysiakini, an online news platform launched in 1999 in a country of continuous and pervasive media controls, has taken advantage of a precarious space allowing comparatively free journalism on the Internet. Its success in Malaysia is two-fold: First, it has increased demand for reliable and inde
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Bad Practices, Bad Faith: Soft Censorship in Macedonia
Vienna; Washington, DC; Paris: South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO); Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA); WAN-IFRA (2015), 26 pp.
"A principal challenge to independent journalism is the symbiotic relationship between the ruling party and many media outlets and their owners. Examples on both the national and local level are described in this report. Government-friendly outlets are bolstered by various means, particularly non-tr
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Environmental Reporting and Media Development: Equipping Journalists with the Training and Tools to Cover a Critical Beat
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2015), 6 pp.
"In the next few decades, we face unprecedented challenges and tough choices about how to use Earth’s resources. Whether we thrive as a species will depend on our ability to think globally and creatively, and to work across borders to solve our common problems. News media worldwide should play a k
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The Politics of Media Development: The Importance of Engaging Government and Civil Society
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2015), 16 pp.
"In the field of media development, the public sector is often viewed as a monolithic barrier to the development of independent and sustainable media. Although governments do frequently pervert and capture media sectors in countries around the globe, the enabling conditions under which media can ach
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Eroding Freedoms: Media and Soft Censorship in Montenegro
Paris; Washington, DC: WAN-IFRA; Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2015), 23 pp.
"Montenegro’s government should support openness and informed debate in making and implementing public policy decisions. Instead, information concerning matters of public interest is often withheld or distorted by government and by pliant media outlets favoured with official assistance. State fund
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Official Development Assistance for Media: Figures and Findings
Washington, DC; Paris: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA); OECD (2015), 21 pp.
"While numerous world leaders have recently exhorted the importance of a free press, only a fraction of both total official development assistance (ODA) and governance-related ODA finds its way toward support of mediaIf media and free flow for information is truly a fundamental building block of ope
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Global Journalism Education: A Missed Opportunity for Media Development?
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2015), 6 pp.
"The recent growth of journalism education around the globe offers new ways for media development organizations to work with budding journalists in places where the media sector is struggling. Improved communications technology and emerging international standards for quality journalism mean top uni
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The Pentagon, Information Operations, and International Media Development
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2015), 18 pp.
"The U.S. Defense Department has long had an uneasy relationship with independent mediaOn the one hand, it needs the trusted voice of media to portray U.S. military activities in a positive light, both to maintain the support of citizens at home and to help fight its battles abroad. And to the exten
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Watchdogs Under Watch: Media in the Age of Cyber Surveillance
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2015), 20 pp.
"The fundamental problem with cyber surveillance, even for the most well-intentioned governments, is that laws have not evolved with the technology. Governments must enforce the laws that exist and apply them to the modern age. And they should consider that just because technology makes surveillance
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Soft Censorship, Hard Impact: A Global Review
Paris; Washington, DC: World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA); Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2014), 29 pp.
"Official “soft censorship” (or “indirect government censorship”) describes an array of official actions intended to influence media output short of legal or extra-legal bans, direct censorship of specific content, or physical attacks on media outlets or media practitioners [...] A crucial f
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Measuring the Audience: Why it Matters to Independent News Media and How it Can Contribute to Media Development
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2014), 21 pp.
"Independent news media, which often operate on the fringes of media markets, risk being left out completely if they are not participating whole-heartedly, and with solid knowledge and support, in these emerging arenas. They must embrace audience research as the foundation of both their business dev
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Africa's Media Boom: The Role of International Aid
Top Insights
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2014), 35 pp.
"Since the early 1990s, media outlets in Sub-Saharan Africa have proliferated extraordinarily, freeing Africa's press and liberating the airwaves from monopoly by the state. This paper summarises these developments and analyses in how far foreign donors were catalysts of this development. Myers desc
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Understanding Data: Can News Media Rise to the Challenge?
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2014), 38 pp.
"Acknowledgement of the increasingly central role of data in decision making at all levels of society is increasingly visible. The High-Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda called for “A New Data Revolution” that would help track progress toward development goals and ensure the inclus
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Business Journalism Thrives - Even Under Repressive Regimes
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2014), 8 pp.
"Even as a growing number of authoritarian regimes crack down on the political press, business news is thriving. And the coverage is more vigorous than might be expected. Enterprising journalists are exposing mismanagement and unearthing shady business deals, and — even at times exposing official
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By the Numbers: Tracing the Statistical Correlation Between Press Freedom and Democracy
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2014), 38 pp.
"Press freedom is a key component of the general level of democracy in a country. Most often, changes in the state of media freedom have happened in tandem with changes in broader freedoms, therefore making it a sensitive indicator of the overall health of a democracy. In some cases, its deteriorati
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