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Problematizing 'media Development' as a Bandwagon Gets Rolling
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Guy Berger

International Communication Gazette, volume 72, issue 7 (2010), pp. 547-565

"International initiatives have gained momentum around analysing ‘media development’ — a notion related to, but generally distinct from, media’s contribution to ‘development’. The focus on the ‘development’ of media is conventionally (although not logically) about international inter ... more

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Public Sentinel: News Media and Governance Reform
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Pippa Norris (ed.)

Washington, DC: World Bank (2010), xxi, 420 pp.

"This book highlights the importance of the news media as watchdogs, agenda setters and gatekeepers for the quality of democratic deliberation in the public sphere. At the same time, it theorizes that the capacity of journalists and media systems to fulfill these roles depends on the broader context ... more

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Agents of Change? How Western Media Assistance Impacts Journalists in Developing Countries

Susanne Fengler

Singapore: Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association (2010), 34 pp.

"Despite the growing importance of media assistance, recent developments in this field have gone largely unnoticed by journalism and mass communication studies. Therefore, this paper will analyze the status quo of international media assistance and provide a literature review. Authors engage in theo ... more

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Review of Literature

Amelia Arsenault, Shawn Powers

Media Map Project; Internews; World Bank Institute (2010), 32 pp.

"This report explores the origins of media development research, outlines existing empirical measurements of the impact of media development projects, and examines relevant theories about the relationship between media modernization and societal progress." (Page 1)

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Media Development: Annotated Bibliography

Amelia Arsenault, Shawn Powers

Internews (2010), 34 pp.

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Support Study Regarding Media and Development Programmes Currently in Africa Funded by European Donors: Final Report
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Jorgen Ringgaard, Milica Pesic, Moussa Sawadogo, Jean Ouedraogo

Soges; European Union (2010), 50 pp. + annexes

"As a follow up on the Media and Development Forum, which took place in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) on 11-13 September 2008, the European Commission initiated this study to map out the projects and programmes which European donors have in place to support media development in Africa [...] Some 240 co ... more

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Report on the AUC/EC Joint Informal Expert Meeting on Media and Development

Addis Ababa: African Union Commission; European Commission (2010), 51 pp.

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Afghan Media in 2010: Synthesis Report

Eric Davin, Philibert de Mercey, Carlotta Tincati, Kinga Komorowska, Arezo Malakooti, Sébastien Duhaut

Altai Consulting; USAID (2010), 178 pp.

"In 2004-2005, the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Office of Transition Initiatives commissioned Altai Consulting to conduct the first comprehensive media evaluation of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, looking at the impact of the Afghan media on opinions and behav ... iors three years after the beginning of the country’s reconstruction. The evaluation found, among other things: that Afghans were avid and sophisticated media users and that cultural barriers to media use were less significant than previously expected; that the radio played a predominant role throughout the country; and that media are instrumental in social progress and education. However, since publication of that report1, Afghanistan’s media sector has seen important changes. To inform future assistance from the international community to the Afghan media, it was deemed necessary to assess the current state of the Afghan media – by reflecting a full and accurate audience profile, to determine program preferences, to measure the impact of the Afghan media on local opinions and behaviors and to gauge Afghan expectations in terms of programming and messaging. A large-scale research project was thus planned and conducted from March to August 2010. This research included a deep probe into the media sector and the public’s behaviors and expectations. The methodology used to achieved this included a combination of: literature review; direct observations; key informant interviews with most relevant actors involved in the media sector; 6,648 close-ended interviews in more than 900 towns and villages of 106 districts, covering all 34 provinces of the country; an audience survey on more than 1,500 individuals run daily for a week; about 200 qualitative, open-ended interviews; and 10 community case studies. Such an effort guarantees that results presented here are fairly representative of the Afghan population at large. This document provides a comprehensive synthesis of data collected during the survey. A database of media actors, 16 priority district reports, 10 case study reports, a complete description of the methodology and the original datasets from the main quantitative research and the audience research are publicly available, allowing anyone interested to access more focused information as needed." (Introduction, page 8) more

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Indicator Gap Analysis Media

Natasha Wanchek, Lynn Carter

Washington, DC: USAID; Management Systems International (MSI), 2nd draft (2010), 55 pp.

"This report discusses the state of media development indicators in relation to a new Results Framework (RF) drafted by USAID in 2009. There were three aims for the report: To collect and screen the strongest indicators developed by different organizations or individuals for measuring meso-level obj ... more

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The Future of Journalism and Challenges for Media Development: Are We Exporting a Model That no Longer Works at Home?

Bettina Peters

Journalism Practice, volume 4, issue 3 (2010), pp. 268-273

"Large parts of media development work have focused on providing support to create privately owned, independent media in transition and developing countries. The accepted logic of many donor organisations has been that creating external pluralism, i.e. having many different private media companies o ... more

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Support to Media in Electoral Processes: Workshop Report and Conclusions

London: International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA); BBC World Service Trust (2010), 17 pp.

According to this document "media support interventions tend to be conceived and implemented late in the electoral cycle". Support to media around elections could be developed through: mechanisms to map the implications of rapid media and communication changes for electoral outcomes; mechanisms for ... more

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International Media Assistance: A Guide to the Literature

Christoph Dietz

Forum Medien und Entwicklung (fome); Catholic Media Council (CAMECO), preliminary ed. (2010), 31 pp.

"This guide aims to bring together the most relevant literature on media development cooperation, be it of practical or academic nature and regardless of its ideological background. Included were publications which: focus on media development, i.e. the development of an professional, independent and ... more

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International Media Assistance and Aid Effectiveness: Conceptual Blindspots and Institutional Incentives

Abby Jones, Silvio Waisbord

[Washington, DC]: Paper prepared for presentation at American Political Science Association Conference (2010), 39 pp.

"This article analyzes how selected programs articulate broad media objectives with program goals and apply indicators to determine impact with the goal of understanding how media assistance goals are operationalized and measured, and how program goals are linked to broad objectives. Guided by the n ... more

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Minutes from the International Partnership Meeting

Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS) (2010), 40 pp.

"This report provides an overview of the discussions and conclusions from the International Partnership Meeting in New York on 26 January 2010 organised by the Open Society Institute and International Media Support. At the meeting, 30 media support and press freedom organisations from across the wor ... more

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Development and the Media. DW Akademie Annual Report 2009

Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2010), 40 pp.

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Kommunikation - Partizipation - Entwicklung: Positionspapier Medienentwicklungszusammenarbeit = Communication - Participation - Development: Policy Paper on Media Development Cooperation

Helmut Osang, Gerda Meuer, Ellen Schuster, Simon Didszuweit, Patrick Leusch, David Schieferdecker

Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2010), 42 pp.

"Only a target-group oriented, sustainable and integrated development approach can improve long-term participation possibilities – and therefore people’s living conditions – in our partner countries. This approach ranges from the qualification of media content producers, to media legislation a ... more

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Governance and the Media: A Survey of Policy Opinion

Kathy Lines

London: BBC World Service Trust (2009), 40 pp.

"In total, 23 people were interviewed for this report, a mix of those from different parts of the development and media communities, from differently located organisations, and from those based in different geographic locations. The bulk of the interviews were with development agencies - multilatera ... more

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Challenges to U.S. Government Support for Media Development

Andrew Green

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2009), 22 pp.

"Media play a pivotal role in U.S. foreign policy, but the two U.S. government bodies most directly involved in media development assistance - the State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) - face significant resour ... more

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Best Practices and Potential for Improved Information Flows in Media and Civil Society

Colombo: Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) (2009), 84 pp.

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Ein Leuchtturm mit Stromschwankungen: Die Rolle der Medien bei der Entwicklung einer demokratischen Kultur

Reinhard Wagner

DED-Brief, issue 2 (2009), pp. 42-43

"In den vergangenen Jahren hat Ghana einen großen Sprung gemacht, was die Achtung der Pressefreiheit und der Menschenrechte betrifft. Aber eine grundlegende qualitative Verbesserung der Medienlandschaft würde beinhalten, dass sich die Journalisten ihrer verantwortungsvollen Rolle in einer Demokrat ... more

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Public Sentinel: News Media and Governance Reform Top Insights

Support Study Regarding Media and Development Programmes Currently in Africa Funded by European Donors: Final Report Top Insights

Problematizing 'media Development' as a Bandwagon Gets Rolling
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Public Sentinel: News Media and Governance Reform
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Support Study Regarding Media and Development Programmes Currently in Africa Funded by European Donors: Final Report
Top Insights