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Safeguarding Media Freedom in the Age of Big Tech Platforms and AI: Policy Manual
Vienna: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (2025), 147 pp.
"With this Policy Manual, we provide guidance for building an information space free from oligopolistic control, resilient to manipulation, and supportive of independent, pluralistic media. This Policy Manual proposes both structural reforms and targeted mitigation measures – focusing on media vis
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AI and the future of journalism: An issue brief for stakeholders
Paris: UNESCO (2024), 18 pp.
Creating National Funds to Support Journalism and Public-Interest Media
Quick Overview
Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD) (2023), 17 pp.
Understanding journalism impact: A multi-dimensional taxonomy for professional, organizational and societal change
Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies (2023), [no pag.]
"How should we measure the impact of investigative journalism? Media scholars and practitioners have turned their attention towards understanding the causal effect of media reports on a range of social, political and economic outcomes. Their interest has been spurred by the increased availability of
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Saving Journalism 2: Global Strategies and a Look at Investigative Journalism
Top Insights
Washington, DC: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2022), 56 pp.
"It’s clear that there are plenty of good ideas about how to save journalism as well as practical proposals for how to support quality information. The journalism community in much of the world is galvanized to make change happen and they’re ready to persuade the public and policy makers both th
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Finding the Funds for Journalism to Thrive: Policy Options to Support Media Viability
Top Insights
Paris: UNESCO (2022), 16 pp.
"The traditional business model of the news media has been deeply eroded by a shift in advertising revenues to online platforms. Media outlets must intensify efforts towards more inclusive journalism, alternative business models and diversified revenue streams. Urgent action from other actors is als
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Disinformation in the Global South
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Guy Berger (foreword)
Hoboken: Wiley Blackwell (2022), xxv, 237 pp.
"In many parts of the Global South, coordinated political disinformation campaigns, rumor, and propaganda have long been a part of the social fabric, even before disinformation has become an area of scholarship in the Global North. The way disinformation manifests in this region, and responses to it
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Media Capture: How Money, Digital Platforms, and Governments Control the News
New York: Columbia University Press (2021), vii, 315 pp.
"This book features pathbreaking analysis from journalists and academics of the changing nature and peril of media capture - how formerly independent institutions fall under the sway of governments, plutocrats, and corporations. Contributors including Emily Bell, Felix Salmon, Joshua Marshall, Joel
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Saving Journalism: A Vision for the Post-Covid World
Washington, DC: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2021), 36 pp.
"Dozens of plans to help save journalism have emerged since the Covid-19 pandemic decimated media outlets around the world. This report summarizes some of the trends we’ve seen and evaluates where they currently stand. Most promising are Australia’s efforts to get Google and Facebook to pay for
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Misinformation Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa: From Laws and Regulations to Media Literacy
London: University of Westminster Press (2021), 220 pp.
"The volume first examines the teaching of media literacy in state-run schools in seven Sub-Saharan African countries as of mid-2020, as relates to misinformation. It explains the limited elements of broad media and information literacy (MIL) included in the curricula in the seven countries studied
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Fighting for Survival: Media Startups in the Global South
Inspiring Practice
New York: School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) Columbia University (2019), 180 pp.
"Three years after writing the report Publishing for Peanuts, in which we surveyed 35 media startups mostly from the Global South, we decided to go back and see how the outlets had fared. Our area of interest in 2015 was small-to-medium size independent media outlets with a track record of consisten
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African Muckraking: 75 Years of Investigative Journalism from Africa
Auckland Park: Jacana (2018), xxxii, 347 pp.
"This collection of 41 pieces of African journalism includes passionate and committed writing on labor abuses, police brutality, women’s rights, the struggle for democracy and independence on the continent and other subjects. Each piece of writing is introduced by a noted scholar or journalist who
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In the Service of Power: Media Capture and the Threat to Democracy
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Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2017), 162 pp.
"In this volume of essays edited by Anya Schiffrin, media capture is shown to be a growing phenomenon linked both to the resurgence of authoritarian governments as well as to the structural weakne
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Same Beds, Different Dreams? Charitable Foundations and Newsroom Independence in the Global South
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2017), 32 pp.
"The growing trend of non-profit journalism has received much attention of late, but this report takes a unique look at how non-profit funding is affecting journalism in the Global South. Amidst the collapse of traditional business models for news organizations, funding from philanthropic foundation
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Bridging the Gap: Rebuilding Citizen Trust in the Media
Top Insights
Open Society Foundations (2017), 144 pp.
"Journalists in many countries are experimenting with how to build trust and engage with audiences, and our report examines their efforts. In our study we profile organizations that are working to build bridges with their readers, viewers and listeners and deliver relevant news to local audiences. W
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Africa's Media Image in the 21st Century: From the "Heart of Darkness" to "Africa Rising"
Top Insights
London; New York: Routledge (2017), xvii, 239 pp.
"Africa’s Media Image in the 21st Century is the first book in over twenty years to examine the international media’s coverage of sub-Saharan Africa. It brings together leading researchers and prominent journalists to explore representation of the continent, and the production of that image, esp
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The Routledge Companion to Media and Human Rights
London; New York: Routledge (2017), xix, 520 pp.
"The Companion is the first collection to bring together two distinct ways of thinking about human rights and media, including scholarship that examines media as a human right alongside that which looks at media coverage of human rights issues. This international collection of 49 newly written piece
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Participatory Politics and Citizen Journalism in a Networked Africa: A Connected Continent
Top Insights
London: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), 308 pp.
"This book investigates the role of citizen journalism in railroading social and political changes in sub-Saharan Africa. Case studies are drawn from research conducted by leading scholars from the fields of media studies, journalism, anthropology and history, who uniquely probe the real impact of t
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Can We Measure Media Impact? Surveying the Field
Stanford Social Innovation Review, issue fall (2015), pp. 47-55
"More and more news outlets rely on philanthropic funding. With such funding come new questions about the effect that media content has on citizens and policymakers. Traditional metrics, most observers agree, are insufficient. But the value of alternative metrics is an open issue. Two scholars analy
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