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Media Development and the Open Government Partnership: Can Improved Policy Dialogue Spur Media Reforms?
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2019)
"The global effort to promote open and transparent government creates new opportunities to put media development on the political agenda of countries around the world. This report looks in particular at the structures of the Open Government Partnership (OGP), which in its 2016 Paris Declaration char
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Visibility and Fundraising for IPDC
Paris: UNESCO (2019), 69 pp.
Strengthening the United Nations’ Role in Media Development
Deep Insights
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2019)
"This report examines the myriad ways that the agencies and bodies of the United Nations support the development of healthy media systems. Author Bill Orme highlights the role of four UN organizations in particular—UNESCO, UNDP, UNICEF, and DPO—and makes recommendations targeted to these agencie
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Radio & Audio Grantmaking: Reaching New Audiences Through Old Platforms
Philadelphia, PA: Media Impact Funders (2019), 17 pp.
"Both radio and audio funding levels are growing, reflecting both overall funding trends in media and particular interest in using old and new sound-based formats in creative and compelling ways. Both formats are driving innovation across programming, with radio often serving as a curator of news an
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The New Advertisers: How Foundation Funding Impacts Journalism
Media and Communication, volume 7, issue 4 (2019), pp. 45-55
"Many journalism stakeholders have begun looking to philanthropic foundations to help newsrooms find economic sustainability. The rapidly expanding role of foundations as a revenue source for news publishers raises an important question: How do foundations exercise their influence over the newsrooms
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How foreign aid fuels African media’s payola problem
Project Syndicate, February 12 (2019)
"Today, a typical journalist in Africa is a professional workshop attendee. Non-governmental organisations from every sector “train” journalists in their subject matter, often with content conceived in Western capitals by people with no experience in journalism or in the target countries. Journa
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Global Media Philanthropy: What Funders Need to Know About Data, Trends and Pressing Issues Facing the Field
Deep Insights
Philadelphia: Media Impact Funders (2019), 50 pp.
"Both funding and making media are now dangerous in new ways: Foundations, publishers, editors and journalists across the world are facing not just familiar forms of repression and censorship, but new threats from breaches to digital privacy and a notably uncivil online culture. Funders need to work
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Building Trust in Media in South East Europe and Turkey
Brussels: UNESCO Office Brussels (2019), 16 pp.
"The project seeks to restore confidence in the media in South East Europe and Turkey. The focus is on improving media accountability mechanisms, media internal governance, and media and information literacy among citizens to strengthen civil society support for the media and demand for quality medi
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"This Mozambique Media Strengthening Program (MSP) final report is an overview of IREX’s implementation of a wide range of assistance activities to strengthen the media and healthrelated communications sectors in Mozambique over a seven-year period. These activities have significantly contributed
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Evaluation Report Executive summary Colombia. Dealing with the aftermath of the conflict: Access to human rights-related information and sensitive reporting of local media in Colombia
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2019), 3 pp.
"DW Akademie’s project in Colombia supports initiatives that promote the inclusion of diverse experiences in the country’s historical memory, focusing in particular on the local effects of the peace process. In general, these initiatives are aimed at giving Colombians, mainly victims and people
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UNDP’s Engagement with the Media for Governance, Sustainable Development and Peace
Deep Insights
Oslo: UNDP Oslo Governance Centre (2019), 82 pp.
"This report features 13 case studies that together highlight the range and impact of UNDP’s engagement with the media for the purpose of achieving development outcomes. These examples vary widely in scope and aim: from an election media monitoring initiative in Georgia to an initiative promoting
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Radio Voices: How One Grant Changed a Public Radio Station. Case Study: KCRW
Los Angeles: USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center, Media Impact Project (2019), 14 pp.
"National Public Radio (NPR) affiliate KCRW received a three-year grant from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation in 2015 to spark public discourse about issues affecting disadvantaged and vulnerable populations in Los Angeles. It included initiatives to sponsor live events and to improve reporting acros
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"The Balkans Media Assistance Program (BMAP) (2017 – 2021, $8 million) is a USAID funded initiative focused on making media more competitive in local and regional marketplaces and strengthening the sustainability of the independent media sector across the Balkans, particularly in the digital space
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Making Meaning of Media Development Today
International Journal of Communication, volume 13 (2019), pp. 2437-2456
"This article aims to fill a gap in the academic literature on how employees at a media development intermediary construct meaning of their work. Based on in-depth interviews with 18 employees of Internews, this research shows that employees believe the organization has “evolved” from the past t
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Whispered Support: Two Decades of International Aid for Independent Journalism and Free Expression
In: Myanmar Media in Transition: Legacies, Challenges and Change
Singapore: ISEAS (2019), pp. 95-130
"This chapter is drawn primarily from Jane Madlyn McElhone's thirteen years of in-field experience in Myanmar and other nations in transition, as well as key informant interviews she conducted in 2017 and 2018 [...] Our discussion is driven by a series of interlinked questions. Who were the key medi
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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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Mauritania Violent Extremism & Media Landscape Assessment: Desk Study & Field Analysis
USAID; International Business and Technical Consultants (IBTCI) (2019), 89 pp.
"The primary questions driving this assessment are: What are the principal drivers of extremism in Mauritania? What are the principal social fractures that have been, or could be, exploited by extremists? The table below displays the overall main drivers of VE in Mauritania, as well as the five subn
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Talkback Program: Cambodia Communication Assistance Project. Impact Briefing
ABC International Development (2019), 11 pp.
"Talkback radio programs (TBP) were established to educate the Cambodian public on governance issues and provide a channel through which they could communicate with authorities directly. Programs were broadcast in 4 provinces: Battambang, Kampong Cham, Siem Reap, and Kampot. This impact briefing rev
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UNESCO’s Internet Universality Indicators: A Framework for Assessing Internet Development
Key Guides
Paris: UNESCO (2019), 198 pp.
"The four principles identified as key to Internet Universality are summarised as the R-O-A-M principles, and are fundamental to the development of the Internet in ways that are conducive to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals with no one left behind. These principles are: R – that the int
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"This study was specfically intended to: 1. provide comprehensive insight into the public’s media consumption patterns, and its underlying causes: a) values; b) needs and interests, particularly regarding media content; c) motivation and aspirations, with specific emphasis on buying media content;
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