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Demokratieförderung durch Journalistenausbildung in Südosteuropa
Bonn: Hochschulrektorenkonferenz (2009), 216 pp.
"To fill a gap in UNDP’s current strategic approach to democratic governance in Timor-Leste, media development has been added as an essential pillar of its programme geared toward assistance for building a democratic state. This project aims to improve the enabling conditions for the media sector
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Empowering Independent Media: U.S. Efforts to Foster Free and Independent News Around the World
Deep Insights
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2008), 96 pp.
"This report provides an assessment of U.S. international media development efforts, both public and private, and calls on future efforts to be more long-term, comprehensive, and need-driven. Recommending a more holistic assistance approach, the report looks at the international media development fi
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Using Content Analysis to Measure the Influence of Media Development Interventions: Elections Training for Journalists in Yemen
London: BBC World Service Trust (2008), 8 pp.
"The findings from this research reveal the complexity of delivering journalism training and the challenges involved in capturing evidence of impact. Content analysis is a useful tool for measuring change in media output. It can both inform training delivery and provide evidence of improvements to o
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Training Journalists to Report on HIV/AIDS: Final Evaluation of a Global Program
Arcata: Internews Network (2008), 50 pp.
"Internews Network, a U.S.-based organization that for more than two decades has trained journalists around the world, in 2002 received funding from the United States Agency for International Development to launch a project in Africa to help media improve their coverage of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Cal
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Changing Paradigms in Media Education Aid in the Pacific
In: South Pacific Islands Communication: Regional Perspectives, Local Issues
Singapur: Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre (AMIC) (2008), pp. 59-81
"Journalism education (based for most of the past three decades at three Pacific universities) and industry short-course training have followed different yet parallel paths in the region. Aid donors have played important roles in both sectors, although often not particularly well coordinated. While
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Media Assistance: Challenges and Opportunities for the Professional Development of Journalists. Working Group Report
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2007), 19 pp.
"This report represents input from twenty-three practitioners who have observed, planned, and implemented media education programs of the U.S. and other Western governments, as well as those of private funders. The group discussed broad lessons learned and specific recommendations for policymakers,
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University Journalism Education: A Global Challenge
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2007), 35 pp.
"This report explores the current state of university-based journalism education and describes avenues for engaging those international media developers by highlighting three strategies: • Universities are important for entry-level journalism training. International media developers should conside
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Journalism Education as a Vehicle for Media Development in Africa: The AMDI Project
African Journalism Studies, volume 28, issue 1-2 (2007), pp. 127-147
"This overview is based on data obtained from a wider analysis of the state of media development in Africa – the African Media Development Initiative (AMDI). The analysis draws on a sample of university lecturers and department heads of mass communication, media and journalism studies from across
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An Imperative to Innovate: Sustainable Journalism Training in Central and Eastern Europe. Final Report to the Knight Foundation
Washington, DC: Jefferson Institute (2007), 52 pp.
"Our analysis will proceed along the following lines. First, it will show how media development promotes market-based democracy. Second, it examines the particular role of Central and East European journalist training centers in media development. Third, we broaden the scope beyond fixed training ce
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Crafting the Arab Media for Peace-Building: Donors, Dialogue and Disasters
In: Arab Media and Political Renewal: Community, Legitimacy and Public Life
London; New York: Tauris (2007), pp. 135-153
"From small beginnings in the 1960s, Western governments and international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) are today spending huge sums on media intervention in Arab countries, to the point where such intervention has become an industry. Among the plethora of media projects aimed at moulding
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Foreign Aid in Pacific Media Education: Panacea or Pandora’s Box?
Media Asia, volume 34, issue 2 (2006), pp. 66-78
"Since New Zealand development assistance helped establish the South Pacific’s first journalism school at the University of Papua New Guinea in 1975, many international aid agencies have contributed to media training and education in the region. Among the donors in a competitive environment, have
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IREX: Final Program Report. Montenegro Independent Media Program
Washington, DC: IREX (2006), 34 pp.
Journalistenausbildung in Mosambik
Berlin: Frank & Timme (2006), 426 pp.
"Christoph Hantel hat drei Jahre an einer mosambikanischen Universität Journalisten ausgebildet. In einer landesweiten Befragung ließ er ein Zehntel aller mosambikanischen Journalisten interviewen, sprach mit Herausgebern, Politikern und Dozenten und besuchte Medien und Ministerien. Er zeichnet ei
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e-Learning: Comunicación y educación. El diálogo continúa en el ciberespacio
San José (CR): Radio Nederland Training Centre (RNTC) (2006), 245 pp.
Political Violence and Journalism in a Multiethnic State: A Case Study of Burma (Myanmar)
Journal of Communication Inquiry, volume 30, issue 4 (2006), pp. 354-373
"Debates about the role of media in situations of political violence call into question whether journalists should focus on “objective” reporting or instead facilitate conflict resolution. Yet an increasingly problematic assumption is that journalists are outsiders to the communities in conflict
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Retelling the News in Central Europe: Western Journalism as Democratic Discourse
In: Nationalist Myths and Modern Media: Contested Identities in the Age of Globalization
London: Tauris (2006), pp. 39-54
"This paper has shown that media assistance donors to Central Europe misplaced their emphasis on the trainign of journalistic craft skills as a principal means of introducing what they rather uncritically called 'democratic journalism' to post-Communist societies. There are many narrative choices in
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