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"The research focuses on three themes. Firstly, it identifies and maps the information environment in Mon State in terms of technology and media use across urban, rural, non-conflict, and former conflict geographic areas. Secondly, the flow of news and information is examined to see how individuals ... more
"The six modules [...] are designed to help trainers integrate digital safety and online security topics into their media training. The modules do not assume that the trainer has special knowledge of the subject. While we wrote the toolkit with journalism trainers in mind, we believe that the module ... more
Key findings include: 35% of people interviewed had family members working outside of Nepal; 86% of households had a working mobile phone (92.5% in urban; 84.3% in rural areas); 49% had a working television (79.5% in urban; 42.3% in rural areas); 45% a working radio (46.1% in urban; 45.3% in rural a ... more
"This toolbox should provide some insights and tools for journalists reporting on events in other countries, but it has primarily been developed for journalists reporting on extremely violent conflicts in their own communities. It hopes to provide these journalists with insights they can draw on in ... more
"As expected, the general media environment in South Sudan is highly varied, with sharp distinctions between the capital city of Juba and the rest of the country, which is largely rural. A key difference here involves language use and understanding, with rural areas dominated by local/tribal languag ... more
"This survey asked representatives of major humanitarian aid organizations to reflect on how their operations in the field communicate with disaster-affected communities [...] The two areas in which progress is critical are improving the relationship between humanitarian organizations and local medi ... more
"This paper argues that like other sectors, the media development sector needs to bring greater empirical rigor to its operations in order to bring about gender integration. It attempts to orient media development practitioners with both a historical and contemporary view of key policies, research a ... more
"Connecting the Last Mile explores how communities in the most devastated areas of the prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima got their information. It identifies which communications channels were used before, during and after the earthquake and tsunami, and it attempts to answer a central ques ... more
"The report presents findings that pose both unique challenges and opportunities for programs seeking to provide humanitarian information to Syrian refugees in Lebanon. So far, according to the report, there is little evidence of any comprehensive strategy or investment in providing a humanitarian c ... more
"When violence broke out in the final days of 2007 after a bitterly contested election in Kenya, Internews responded within days, working with journalists who were trying and failing to make sense of the unprecedented post-election conflict that swept across their country. Five and a half years late ... more

Citizen Watchdog Report: November 2012-April 2013

Washington, DC; Arcata, Calif.: Internews (2013), 35 pp.
"For six months between November 2012 and April 2013, fifty citizen watchdog monitors carefully noted incidents of hate speech and dangerous speech broadcast by five radio stations in Kenya. It was part of Internews in Kenya’s Free and Fair Media (FFM) programme aimed at working with the media to ... more
"This paper draws on interviews with digital security trainers and coordinators of digital security trainings of trainers (ToT)s whose end-goal is the support of human rights defenders, civil society, activists, and local media worldwide [...] Among its main findings, this paper notes the following ... more

The Business of Media in Myanmar

Washington, DC, Arcata, Calif.: Internews (2013), 22 pp.
"Exploring communication ecologies rather than discrete communication practices remains a difficult challenge. Indonesia: Crisis Communication Channels is one of the early attempts to develop this practice, with case-study examples [...] The three case-study disasters are: Jakarta’s January 2013 f ... more
"Road traffic is often covered in the media as an event – not as an enormous drain on a country’s health resources or a leading killer of its citizens. By framing traffic safety as a health story, journalists have the opportunity to impact the way these stories are told, and potentially help shi ... more
"In early 2013, the Internews Center for Innovation and Learning (ICIL) set out to pilot a new system that allows humanitarian communications professionals and responders to quickly gather, analyze, and act upon data to understand information needs of an affected population during a crisis. The syst ... more