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Hilfe für eine starke vierte Gewalt
welt-sichten, issue 2 (2020), pp. 22-24
"Seit einem halben Jahrhundert werden Journalisten aus dem globalen Süden von deutschen Organisationen fortgebildet. Doch inzwischen umfasst die Medienentwicklungszusammenarbeit mehr als Trainings." (Seite 22)
Central Project Evaluation: Further Education and Training for Media Professionals in Africa – DW Akademie, Kenya and Rwanda. Evaluation Report
Bonn; Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2020), 56 pp.
"The factors that led to the overall unsatisfactory assessment of the project can be summarised as follows:
• The project was not anchored in any overarching reference framework. Accordingly, neither its contributions to the strategic objectives of the German development cooperation nor to any oth
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Cultural and Creative Industries Supporting Activities in Sub-Saharan Africa: Mapping and Analysis
Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2020), 104 pp.
"Over the last 20 years, the power of cultural and creative industries (CCIs) as enablers and drivers of sustainable development has been broadly recognised. They are viewed as critical to social cohesion, social and economic transformation, and political stability. For this reason, it is important
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Media Viability in the CORAPE Network
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie; Coordinadora de Radios Populares y Educativas del Ecuador (CORAPE) (2020), 33 pp.
"The Coordinadora de Medios Comunitarios, Populares y Educativos de Ecuador (CORAPE) is the biggest network of community media in Ecuador, and since 2016 has been the main partner of DW Akademie in that South American country. Between 2016 and 2019 the two organizations implemented a project finance
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The Role of the Media in Peacebuilding in Yemen
Bonn: Center for Applied Research in Partnership with the Orient (CARPO) (2020), 15 pp.
"The increased political capture of the Yemeni media since 2014 has reinforced diverging political discourses and has contributed to polarization across society and to political fragmentation. Content of newspapers, television and online platforms has further eroded journalistic standards through th
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Overall Programme Information
Paris: UNESCO (2020), ?? pp.
"This report assesses progress towards the achievement of the above-mentioned outcomes during the period of 1 January to 31 December 2018, the de-facto year of operation of the inception phase for the MDPFoE. Initial contributions were provided by Austria, Canada, Norway and Switzerland. On the seco
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Media Incubator for the Western Balkans Pilot Project: Evaluation Report
Free Press Unlimited (2020), 67 pp.
"FPU’s implementation approach emphasizes the value of forming true partnerships with local implementers to co-develop project plans and build capacity. This approach led to FPU being perceived by its partners as a refreshingly different type of partner that takes a novel approach in its project i
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Wie ich lernte, die Welt im Radio zu erklären: Von Radio Bremen zur Übersee-Brücke
Bremen: Kellner Verlag (2020), 359 pp.
"Als die Tonstudios, 1963, noch voll verkabelt sind, beginnt Klaus Jürgen Schmidt, sich durch die Strukturen der Öffentlich-Rechtlichen zu schlagen. Die biografische Erzählung ist ein Einblick hinter die Kulissen von Radio Bremen, aber auch in das Leben des Autors, der immer wieder für sein Idea
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Internews’ Strategic Approach to COVID-19
Internews (2020), 13 pp.
"The Internews approach to addressing COVID-19 is deeply rooted in our new strategy, which calls for building the five elements of a healthy information environment. These are: 1. Good, accurate, evidence-based information; 2. That everyone can access safely; 3. That consumers know how to critically
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Impact Dashboard 2020
New York; Prague: Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF) (2020), 50 pp.
"Starting with support to media companies in countries transitioning from communist systems to free markets back in 1996, to being at the forefront of investing in digital news and information startups in emerging and frontier markets in 2019, MDIF has invested in 119 independent media businesses ac
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Final Report. Jordan Media Assessment: Media Landscape Analysis
USAID; Management Systems International (MSI) (2020), 98 pp.
"The Media Landscape Analysis is Component I of the Jordan Media Assessment, a comprehensive review of the media sector in Jordan. Based on a thorough desk review of existing research on Jordan’s media scene, it focuses on the legal framework, political will and economic context that affect the wo
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Measuring Global Media Freedom: The Media Freedom Analyzer as a New Assessment Tool
Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2020), xv, 252 pp.
"The Media Freedom Analyzer developed by Laura Schneider is a new way to measure global media freedom in a more objective, unbiased and transparent way. Grounded in the opinions of around 1000 experts from 126 countries, the index is the first empirically validated tool to assess free and independen
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Environmental Media Grantmaking: How Funders Are Tipping the Scales Toward Change
Philadelphia: Media Impact Funders (2020), 32 pp.
"This report—which complements MIF’s in-person and online convenings throughout the year—aims to highlight trends in environmental media grantmaking, impact studies and examples of promising media projects, and insights from funders in the space. This report focuses on U.S. funders who give in
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Is Media Assistance Obsolete? A Practice-Based Perspective on the Potential for Digital Technologies to Achieve Media Development Goals in Sub-Saharan Africa
Dublin: Technological University Dublin, Doctoral Thesis (2020), 417 pp.
"This thesis examines the impact on the Media Assistance sector of the arrival of digital technologies into the ‘information ecosystems’ in which it operates. Whereas historically in Media Assistance, broadcast media and the press have been the preferred (or available) media for achieving develo
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Evaluating Academic and Media Nongovernmental Organization Partnerships for Participatory Data Gathering
International Journal of Market Research, volume 63, issue 1 (2020), pp. 43-57
"This article discusses participatory methods for data gathering in the context of a partnership between a Swiss-based media development organization, Fondation Hirondelle, and a research team at the University of Sheffield. In 2018–2019, the partnership conducted fieldwork which focused on the im
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The Publeaks Projects
Free Press Unlimited (2019), 96 pp.
"This booklet contains a series of stories and essays on the impact and rationale behind the various PubLeaks platforms that Free Press Unlimited has helped set up over the years." (Publisher description)
Case Study: Media Development Investment Fund
Convergence (2019), 10 pp.
"Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF) is a not-for-profit fund that provides affordable debt, equity, and quasi-equity financing as well as technical assistance to independent media companies in countries where the free press is under threat [...] As of December 31, 2018, MDIF has provided more
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Supporting Democracy Through Digital Investigative Journalism in Nepal: Evaluation Report
Helsinki: Vikes (2019), 55 pp.
"Centre of Investigative Journalism (CIJ Nepal) has made a contribution to introducing and promoting investigative journalism and its activities need to be continued, particularly given the efforts of Nepal to democratize and the introduction on new governance structure in the country. Generally, th
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Foundation-Funded Journalism, Philanthrocapitalism and Tainted Donors
Journalism Studies, volume 20, issue 5 (2019), pp. 675-695
"Not-for-profit news organisations are increasingly funded by private foundations, supported by wealthy entrepreneurs. This raises a range of ethical dilemmas for journalists, which are particularly serious when their donors are alleged to have been involved in unethical or illegal activities. Altho
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Code of Ethics
International Media Support (IMS) (2019), 4 pp.
This Code of Ethics serves to inform beneficiaries, donors and the public of the internal guidelines, whereby IMS maintains the highest standards of integrity, governance, financial management, partnerships and implementation of our mission. This Code of Ethics consists of three parts: A brief intro
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