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SAEF Report on Observation of Media Conduct During the 2014 Malawi Tripartite Elections
Southern African Editor's Forum (SAEF) (2014), 15 pp.
"SAEF’s major finding in Malawi was that although the media had covered the entire election process fairly well, it had failed to give equitable coverage to all three parts of the elections – presidential, parliamentary and local government. The press gave 40% coverage to the presidential race,
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Kenya's Media Landscape: A Success Story with Serious Structural Challenges
Leipzig: Vistas (2014), 180 pp.
"Kenya’s 2010 Constitution guarantees press freedom in a way the country has never previously seen. However, the concentration of media ownership and pending consensus on new media legislation are tarnishing the triumphs of Kenya’s media liberalization and development. Regulation of news content
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Media Role in African Changing Electoral Process
Lanham et al.: University Press of America (2014), xix, 229 pp.
PakVotes: A Social Media Experiment in Elections Monitoring
Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2014), 5 pp.
"PakVotes, a pilot project supported by the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP), used social media platforms and a network of reporters located in areas outside of major cities in Pakistan to track violence during the 2013 elections. The project offers lessons that could guide future efforts to use socia
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The Role of UNDP in Supporting Democratic Elections in Africa
Addis Ababa: UNDP (2013), vii, 52 pp.
Malawi Reporting: Covering the Tripartite Elections
London: Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR) (2013), 48 pp.
"This Course Handbook has been produced to accompany the USAID/NDI/IWPR Course in Election Reporting, which is being run for Malawian journalists in the run-up to the 2014 Elections. The Handbook, which follows the day-by-day course programme, contains copies of the slides used during the course plu
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When Words Were Weapons: Kenya’s Media Turn the Tide on Hate Speech and Conflict
Arcata, Calif.; Washington, DC: Internews (2013), 71 pp.
"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
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Negotiating Media ‘balance’ in Malaysia’s 2013 General Election
Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, volume 32, issue 2 (2013), pp. 39-60
"This article will discuss recent trends in Malaysia’s media surrounding the 2013 general election (GE13). It will argue that the GE13 produced two important trends in the media industry. First, there was increased political-party participation in social media, citizen journalism and blogging. In
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Médias et élections: Un guide pour les praticiens électoraux
New York: UNDP (2013), vi, 110 pp.
Die Rolle der Medien im Demokratisierungsprozess Kenias
Berlin; Münster: Lit (2013), 332 pp.
Hostages of Peace: The Politics of Radio Liberalization in Somaliland
Journal of Eastern African Studies, volume 7, issue 2 (2013), pp. 239-257
"Somaliland has held several competitive and multiparty elections that have been cited by international election monitors as being ‘‘free and fair.’’ While political competition has been tolerated, or even encouraged by the governments in power, there has been a continued reluctance to allow
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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
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Medios de comunicación, gobernanza y agenda informativa en Nicaragua
Managua: Universidad Centroamericana (UCA), Observatorio de Medios (2012), 332 pp.
"De forma resumida se puede expresar que la razón de ser del Observatorio de Medios de la UCA es la de una instancia que investiga y opina sobre el comportamiento de los medios en el país bajo la premisa que estos deben contribuir al desarrollo humano y sostenible de este país centroamericano. Pa
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Media Practice in Iraq
Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), xi, 221 pp.
"A historical survey of the Iraqi media from its beginning up to the present day, focusing on the post-2003 media scene and the political and societal divisions that occurred in Iraq after US-led occupation. Investigates the nature of the media outlets and offers an analysis of the way Iraqi satelli
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Exile Media, Global News Flows and Democratization: The Role of Democratic Voice of Burma's 2010 Elections
Media, Culture & Society, volume 34, issue 5 (2012), pp. 537-554
"This article explores the links between transnational media flows and social and political change in authoritarian regimes through a conjunctural study of Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB), a Burmese exile media organization. Drawing on observation and interviews conducted at DVB's Oslo studio during
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The ACE Encyclopaedia: Media and Elections
ACE Electoral Knowledge Network, revised ed. (2012), 232 pp.
Covering Elections: The Challenges of Training the Watchdogs
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2012), 36 pp.
"Covering elections is not just coverage of one “grand event,” and training must reflect that. Short-term training just in advance of election day has been mostly discounted as ineffective. More must be done to cast elections as part of a critical on-going political process and to equip journali
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