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Continental Shift: New Trends in Private U.S. Funding for Media Development
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2011), 26 pp.
"This work is an update of the October 2009 CIMA report, Experimentation and Evolution in Private U.S. Funding of Media Development by the same author. The field of private sector funding of independent media abroad has continued to undergo a massive upheaval over the past two years. Both the 2008 r
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Democracy or Polyarchy? US-Funded Media Developments in Afghanistan and Iraq Post 9/11
Media, Culture & Society, volume 30, issue 1 (2008), pp. 109-130
"This paper has demonstrated that the benefits for the general Afghan and Iraqi public derived from the ‘promotion of independent media’ by institutions like the NED are questionable, especially for parties interested in encouraging more deliberative or participatory forms of democracy. Instead,
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Towards a New Model: Media and Communication in Post-Conflict and Fragile States
Deep Insights
Washington, DC: World Bank, Communication for Governance and Accountability Program (CommGAP) (2008), 105 pp.
"There is very little undestanding of the role that communicartion processes play in the numerous starnds of post-conflict reconstruction, including peacebuilding, governance, and long-term development. This paper addressess this gap by distilling lessons learned from the media and communication str
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U.S. Public and Private Funding of Independent Media Development Abroad
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2007), 28 pp.
"U.S. funding for international media development in 2006—public and private—exceeded $142 million; U.S. government funding totaled nearly $69 million; U.S. private sector funding totaled over $60 million; and Funding from government-supported nonprofit organizations—the National Endowment for
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Exporting Press Freedom: Economic and Editorial Dilemmas in International Media Assistance
Deep Insights
New Brunswick; London: Transaction Publishers (2007), 310 pp.
"Exporting Press Freedom examines the history and practice of media assistance, and argues that the dilemma of media independence and sustainability is best understood as an economic problem rather than one of poor editorial standards or lack of will. It includes profiles of news and public affairs
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"Aiding and training journalists and media managers, along with civil society groups, paid off in Georgia. The American and Western investment helped to generate the Rose Revolution, and resulted in a potentially more democratic, open and Western-leaning society. It was a comparatively economical, a
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Independent Media Development Abroad: Challenges Exist in Implementing U.S. Efforts and Measuring Results
Washington, DC: United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) (2005), 49 pp.
"The Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development obligated at least $40 million in fiscal year 2004 for the development of independent media, including activities such as journalism and business management training and support for legal and regulatory frameworks. About 60 p
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USAID's Media Assistance: Policy and Programmatic Lessons
Washington, DC: USAID, Bureau for Policy and Program Coordination (2004), xiv, 20 pp.
"1. USAID media assistance was effective in promoting and strengthening independent media [...] 2. Comprehensive training programs had multiplier effects on upgrading the professional skills of journalists and instilling the norms of free press. But they suffered from implementation problems [...] 3
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The Media Missionaries: American Support for Journalism Exellence and Press Freedom Around the Globe
Miami: Knight Foundation (2004), 136 pp.
"When the Communist barricades collapsed in 1989, hundreds of Americans rushed to Eastern Europe and the former Soviet republics to spread the gospel of democracy. Among them were some of America’s most altruistic journalists, who hoped to midwife a newly independent press. Since then, the U.S. go
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Media Assistance: Best Practices and Priorities. Report on a USAID Workshop
Washington, DC: USAID, Bureau for Policy and Program Coordination (2003), 17 pp.
"Determining that the time had come to derive lessons from past efforts, think afresh about media assistance, and perhaps add some new models - including approaches for Africa and Asia, where the cultural preconditions and economic prospects are quite different from those of Europe - USAID’s Burea
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U.S. Media Assistance Programs in Serbia: July 1997 - June 2002
Washington, DC: USAID, Bureau for Policy and Program Coordination (2003), xiii, 33 pp.
"Serbian media assistance programs reflect two approaches to media development. Though they occasionally created friction, the differing approaches produced positive results. The goal of USAID’s Office of Transition Initiatives (USAID/OTI) was to fund programs and media outlets that could dissemin
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Information Intervention: Bosnia, the Dayton Accords, and the Seizure of Broadcasting Transmitters
Cornell International Law Journal, volume 33, issue 1 (2000), pp. 67-112
"The international mission, as U.S. and Western representatives saw it, was to reconstruct a viable multi-ethnic media, as well as to prevent further conflict. NATO was seeking to build, under the Dayton Accords, a plural society out of pieces that seemed fractured beyond repair. The OHR believed th
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The Role of Media in Democracy: A Strategic Approach
Washington, DC: USAID, Center for Democracy and Governance (1999), 35, 10 pp.
"As such, support for media is an important prong of U.S. democracy and governance assistance. USAID’s objective of the increased development of a politically active civil society provides a strategic rationale for mediarelated activities. In addition, a desired result of an enhanced free flow of
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Public and Non-Profit Interaction: U.S. Assistance to Eastern European Media 1989-1995
Lund; Bromley, Kent: Lund University Press; Chartwell-Bratt (1997), ix, 266 pp.
"This study explores the relationships among U.S. public and non-profit organizations against the backdrop of the assistance they rendered to news media in Eastern European countries between 1989 and 1995. Ideological and administrative goals and strategies used by organizations such as the Departme
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Bilateral Foreign Aid
In: Broadcasting in Africa: A Continental Survey of Radio and Television
Philadelphia: Temple University Press (1974), pp. 215-251
L'aide à la presse des pays en voie de développement
FIEJ Bulletin (Paris), volume 18, issue 70 (1966), pp. 12-26
"Essentiel des exposés faits au 19e Congrès de la F.I.E.J. sur le thème de l'assistance à la presse des pays en voie de développement — Les formes de l'aide africaine, latino-américaine, belge, française, américaine, anglaise et allemande y sont successivement exposées." (Jean-Marie Van B
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How Good is T.V. in Latin America
NAEB Journal (Urbana), volume 20, issue 2 (1961), pp. 51-55
"Training of personnel for work with the communication media in Latin America — The importance of technical training in this field — Technical assistance from the United States — Need to set up a communication media centre particularly for the training of personnel — Where should such a cent
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Communications Media in Tropical Africa
Washington, DC: International Cooperation Administration (1961), 172 pp.
Mimeography. "The state of the communications media in tropical Africa — Radio, which lends itself to a system of collective listening, is the medium which should be borne most in mind — What are the possibilities of developing radio (broadcasting, reception, training of specialist staff, produc
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1st Regional Conference of Communications Media Officers. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Feb. 24 - March 1, 1958
USAID (1958), 124 pp.
"Moving knowledge and proved techniques from the more developed to the developing countries is the essence of the economic and technical cooperation programs. Wtihin this broad framework, communication media have two different but mutually complementing functions: one, to create or increase competen
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