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Guía de estilo sobre salud mental para medios de comunicación: Las palabras sí importan
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M. Fábregas, A. Tafur, A. Guillén, L. Bolaños, J. L. Méndez, P. Fernández de Sevilla
Madrid: Confederación Salud Mental España (2018), 57 pp.
"Esta guía de estilo [que] tiene como objetivo ofrecer a periodistas datos y claves sobre la manera más adecuada para informar acerca de temas o aspectos relacionados con la salud mental. Con el fin de que los y las profesionales de la comunicación puedan generar información veraz, contrastada y ... more
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Reporting Humanitarian Disasters in a Social Media Age

Glenda Cooper
New York: Routledge (2018), 252 pp.
"Drawing on more than 100 in-depth interviews with journalists and aid agency press officers, participant observations at the Guardian, BBC and Save the Children UK, as well as the ordinary people who created the words and pictures that framed these disasters, this book reveals how humanitarian disa ... more
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Making Textbook Content Inclusive: A Focus on Religion, Gender, and Culture

Paris: UNESCO (2018), 27 pp.
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Bridging Theory and Practice in Entertainment Education: An Assessment of the Conceptualization and Design of Tsha Tsha in South Africa

Blessing Makwambeni, Abiodun Salawu
Sage Open, issue January-March (2018), 12 pp.
"The entertainment–education (E-E) strategy in development communication has been widely described as the panacea to development challenges in Africa. However, despite its growing application on the continent, E-E is still argued to be inhibited from contributing meaningfully toward development ef ... more
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NGOs as Newsmakers: The Changing Landscape of International News

Matthew Powers
New York: Columbia University Press (2018), 224 pp.
"In NGOs as Newsmakers, Matthew Powers analyzes the growing role NGOs play in shaping—and sometimes directly producing—international news. Drawing on interviews, observations, and content analysis, he charts the dramatic growth in NGO news-making efforts, examines whether these efforts increase ... more
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Which Image Do You Prefer? Radi-Aid Research: A Study of Visual Communication in Six African Countries

David Girling et al.
Norwegian Students’ and Academics’ International Assistance Fund (SAIH); University of East Anglia, School of International Development (2018), 35 pp.
"Across the board, respondents called for NGOs to diversify their strategies. As well as children, they wanted to see images of parents and grandparents, local development workers and doctors, for example. They highlighted the importance of maintaining the dignity of the individuals portrayed, espec ... more
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Landscaping the Digital Humanitarian Ecosystem

London: GSMA (2018), 52 pp.
"As the number of people affected by humanitarian crises continues to rise and as crises become more prolonged, humanitarian stakeholders (including humanitarian agencies, NGOs, and others) are responding in different ways, by partnering with the private sector, integrating innovative approaches and ... more
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Working with the Media in Pursuit of Health for All

Future Health Systems (2018), 4 pp.
"Working with the media can be part of an effective strategy for influencing actors and debates in ways that can help to foster positive change – from awareness raising, visibility or recognition, to changes in attitudes and behaviours that lead to policy commitment and action. At the same time, i ... more
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Comunicación y desarrollo: Enfoques, prácticas y perspectivas en debate

Jorge Acevedo (ed.)
Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú; Calandria (2018), 212 pp.
"Reúne un conjunto de artículos inicialmente como ponencias en el Seminario Diálogo sobre Comunicación para el Desarrollo concebido como un espacio de reflexión, balance crítico e identificación de desafíos sobre el camino recorrido por la Especialidad a lo largo de casi dos décadas en la f ... more
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Indigenous Knowledge for Climate Change Assessment and Adaptation

Douglas Nakashima, Igor Krupnik, Jennifer T. Rubis (eds.)
Cambridge; Paris: Cambridge University Press; UNESCO (2018), xx, 298 pp.
"This unique transdisciplinary publication is the result of collaboration between UNESCO’s Local and Indigenous Knowledge Systems (LINKS) programme, the United Nations University’s Traditional Knowledge Initiative, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and other organizations. Ch ... more
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Challenges in the Reporting of Environmental Issues in Latin America and the Caribbean

Bruno Takahashi, Juliet Pinto, Mercedes Vigón, Manuel Chavez
In: News Media Coverage of Environmental Challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean
Bruno Takahashi, Juliet Pinto, Manuel Chavez, Mercedes Vigón (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), pp. 1-15
"The introductory chapter of this volume situates the role of news media in Latin America within the context of the environmental, economic, and sociopolitical challenges that countries in the region face. The authors review the current practical challenges faced by the media and journalists in the ... more
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Guidance on Reporting Suicide

Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) (2018), 12 pp.
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Enhancing social inclusion through innovative mobile learning in Uruguay: Case study by the UNESCO-Fazheng project on best practices in mobile learning

Cristobal Cobo Romani, Pablo Rivera Vargas
Paris: UNESCO (2018), 26 pp.
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Covering Conflict in Disaster Affected Communities: A Humanitarian Reporting Field Guide for Journalists

Roehl L. Jamon
Peace and Conflict Journalism Network (PECOJON); CDAC Network (2018), 50 pp.
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A Red Cross Red Crescent Guide to Community Engagement and Accountability (CEA): Improving Communication, Engagement and Accountability in All We Do

Sharon Reader et al.
Geneva: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (ICRC) (2017), 104 pp.
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Preventing Suicide: A Resource for Media Professionals
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World Health Organization (WHO), updated ed. (2017), viii, 18 pp.
"This resource booklet briefly summarizes the current evidence on the impact of media reporting of suicide, and provides information for media professionals about how to report on suicide, recognizing that there are times when a suicide will need to be reported on the grounds of its newsworthiness. ... more
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Connecting Communication: Using Video to Open Spaces and Mediate Exchange Between Kenyan Grass-Roots Activists

Jackie Shaw
Institute of Development Studies (IDS) (2017), 21 pp.
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Communication, Social Movements, and Collective Action: Toward a New Research Agenda in Communication for Development and Social Change

Rafael Obregón, Thomas Tufte
Journal of Communication, volume 67, issue 5 (2017), pp. 635-645
"The growing emphasis on collective action raises new questions for research and practice in communication for development and social change. What actors drive processes of collective action? What are the communication features of their interventions? What type of social change processes do they enh ... more
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The Role of Radio Programming on Poverty Alleviation in Nakaseke District: A Case Study of Musana FM Kiwoko Town Council

Bakalu Bernard
Ndejje University, Bachelor Thesis in Journalism and Mass Communication (2017), 47 pp.
"Musana FM has done a good job in fighting against poverty in Nakaseke district [Uganda] because of its effective and resourceful programs such as income generation programs. Additionally most of advertisements are for local produce, health and medicine which encourages use of local medicines for tr ... more
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Suffering in Silence: The 10 Most Under-Reported Humanitarian Crises of 2016

Care International (2017), 19 pp.
"Media attention and fundraising for humanitarian causes are closely intertwined. Watching people suffering on TV prompts many of us to engage and donate – this is widely known as “the CNN effect.” Journalists need independent access to report from the ground. This might explain why the humani ... more