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Agents of Change? How Western Media Assistance Impacts Journalists in Developing Countries
Singapore: Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association (2010), 34 pp.
"Despite the growing importance of media assistance, recent developments in this field have gone largely unnoticed by journalism and mass communication studies. Therefore, this paper will analyze the status quo of international media assistance and provide a literature review. Authors engage in theo
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Development and the Media. DW Akademie Annual Report 2009
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2010), 40 pp.
Support Study Regarding Media and Development Programmes Currently in Africa Funded by European Donors: Final Report
Deep Insights
Soges; European Union (2010), 50 pp. + annexes
"As a follow up on the Media and Development Forum, which took place in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) on 11-13 September 2008, the European Commission initiated this study to map out the projects and programmes which European donors have in place to support media development in Africa [...] Some 240 co
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Public Sentinel: News Media and Governance Reform
Deep Insights
Washington, DC: World Bank (2010), xxi, 420 pp.
"This book highlights the importance of the news media as watchdogs, agenda setters and gatekeepers for the quality of democratic deliberation in the public sphere. At the same time, it theorizes that the capacity of journalists and media systems to fulfill these roles depends on the broader context
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Minutes from the International Partnership Meeting
Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS) (2010), 40 pp.
"This report provides an overview of the discussions and conclusions from the International Partnership Meeting in New York on 26 January 2010 organised by the Open Society Institute and International Media Support. At the meeting, 30 media support and press freedom organisations from across the wor
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"This report explores the origins of media development research, outlines existing empirical measurements of the impact of media development projects, and examines relevant theories about the relationship between media modernization and societal progress." (Page 1)
The Future of Journalism and Challenges for Media Development: Are We Exporting a Model That no Longer Works at Home?
Journalism Practice, volume 4, issue 3 (2010), pp. 268-273
"Large parts of media development work have focused on providing support to create privately owned, independent media in transition and developing countries. The accepted logic of many donor organisations has been that creating external pluralism, i.e. having many different private media companies o
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Media Literacy: Citizen Journalists
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2009), 26 pp.
"In environments where poor infrastructure, minimal access to technology, and small-scale economies impede the creation or sustainability of mainstream independent media, and in countries where repressive governments limit the ability of professional journalists to operate freely, citizen journalist
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Media development in Afghanistan
Media Development (WACC), issue 1 (2009), pp. 39-44
"The international community entered Afghanistan in December 2001 to oust the Taliban. It promised reconstruction, development and democratisation. At the time, the trauma of 25 years of war had left civil society in Afghanistan shattered and the media had become mere tools in the hands of the dicta
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NGOs and 'modernization' and 'democratization' of Media
Global Media and Communication, volume 5, issue 1 (2009), pp. 9-33
"Western-supported media assistance in transition and developing countries has a long history. Building independent media, preferably through the nongovernmental sector, is seen as an important aspect of achieving mondernization and democratization. This article questions the idealized assumptions u
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Industrias culturales y cooperación iberoamericana en la era digital
Pensamiento Iberoamericano, issue 4 (2009), pp. 73-102
"Las Industrias Culturales (IC) aparecen hoy como el centro nuclear en donde se juega el destino de nuestras identidades, nuestros valores compartidos y la calidad de nuestras democracias. Es también, por eso mismo, el espacio fundamental para los intercambios interculturales, en donde se dirime el
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Appui au secteur des médias: Quel bilan pour quel avenir?
In: Réforme au Congo (RDC): attentes et désillusions
Paris; Tervuren: L'Harmattan; MRAC (2009), pp. 191-210
Governance and the Media: A Survey of Policy Opinion
London: BBC World Service Trust (2009), 40 pp.
"In total, 23 people were interviewed for this report, a mix of those from different parts of the development and media communities, from differently located organisations, and from those based in different geographic locations. The bulk of the interviews were with development agencies - multilatera
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One Size Does Not Fit All: Objectives and Priority Areas for Media Assistance in Different Societies
Deep Insights
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2009), 39 pp.
"The essential thesis of this paper is that the requirements and problems of the media sector differ substantially from country to country according to its political, social and economic conditions: in authoritarian states the scope and intensity of media assistance is quite limited, whereas democra
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Challenges to U.S. Government Support for Media Development
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2009), 22 pp.
"Media play a pivotal role in U.S. foreign policy, but the two U.S. government bodies most directly involved in media development assistance - the State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) - face significant resour
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Between Radicalisation and Democratisation in an Unfolding Conflict: Media in Pakistan
Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS) (2009), 54 pp.
"After nine years of military rule, Pakistan today finds itself in the second year of a challenging transition to democracy. Unlike previously unsuccessful transitions to democracy, this transition is characterised by the presence of a newly liberalised mass media. This can prove to be to be a cruci
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Throwing the Switch: Challenges in the Conversion to Digital Broadcasting
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2009), 34 pp.
Cultura y comunicación: Estado y prospectiva de la cooperación española con el resto de Iberoamérica, 1997-2007
Madrid: Fundación Alternativas; Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID) (2009), 224 pp.
"La investigación que se presenta en estas páginas tuvo un doble objetivo: por un lado, estudiar la cooperación española, bilateral y multilateral, con un seleccionado conjunto de paÃses de iberoamericanos en materia de patrimonio y cultura clásica (artes plásticas, espectáculos en vivo) y d
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