"Das Fernsehen ist angesichts des digitalen Wandels und allgegenwärtiger Bewegtbildinhalte einer existentiellen Bewährungsprobe ausgesetzt. Nur die Neuentwicklung von Geschäftsmodellen und Formaten, die echte „Originals“ darstellen, kann das langfristige Überleben der Sender sichern. Gleichz
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eitig gilt es eine systematische Technologie-Früherkennung und Implementierung zu betreiben. Der Band stellt ein geeignetes Innovations- und Veränderungsmanagement vor, um professionelle Content-Kreationen und Technologie-Lösungen qualitäts-, termin- und kostengerecht bereitzustellen. Dabei wird besonders den Möglichkeiten zum kreativen Arbeiten Rechnung getragen. Denn Kreativität ist am Ende entscheidend für den Erfolg im TV-Markt." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"Thank you for your interest in the AuthorAID Effective Mentorship in Research Communication Toolkit, designed for established researchers in low- and medium-income countries, who mentor PhD students or junior colleagues in research communication. For the purposes of this toolkit, we define research
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communication as the process of interpreting or translating scientific research into a language, format and context that specialists and non-specialists can understand. It involves a network of stakeholders for example researchers, editors, journalists, policymakers, governments generally, user organizations and the public, who are all potential users of research." (Page 5)
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"The starting point for any initiative seeking to establish a hotline will be to understand the particulars of the national context in which the hotline will be developed. Overall, this means conducting an environmental scan that takes in the local legislation, the socio-cultural context, the likely
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scale of the problem and existing efforts to combat the problem in your country." (Page 1)
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"This handbook is written specially for journalists. The examples come from newsrooms, because that is what I know best. But reading it, you will realise that the situations and examples can be ”translated” to your private life and adapted to all kinds of professional situations." (Pages 3-4)
"Consultancy costs can be a large budget item for many NGOs and so getting the best out of it is essential. This guide provides tips that will help you learn from good practices and avoid common mistakes. It is for staff involved in commissioning and managing consultants, particularly in programmes,
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grant management and monitoring, evaluation and learning. In this guide, the person or the organisation who is hiring a consultant is called ‘the client’. This guide is a summarised and updated version of a longer publication produced by Oxfam. It follows a sequence of steps in managing a consultancy, but each can be read as a stand-alone section." (Introduction, page 3)
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"Journalists who regularly cover science, health, environment and technology in Africa and the Arab world face a number of difficulties: Lack of elementary resources for journalistic research, and newsroom environments that are not always supportive of specialised reporting. Also a need for capacity
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to cover science is often bemoaned as well as difficulties in interactions between journalists and scientists. The evaluation of the world's largest support initiative for science journalism in developing countries, the SjCOOP mentoring programme, shows that some of these problems can be mitigated through a variety of support programmes, especially ‘distance mentoring’. The article analyses ways of building capacity and offering general support with the help of ICTs. Organisational structures for specialised reporting in 40 newsrooms are compared. Cases of structural advancement and innovation for science journalism are discussed." (Abstract)
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"Many different educational and training sessions focusing on science journalism have been offered to journalists in Africa in the past decades. However, there is still insufficient quality reporting on health, environment, technology and science. We propose a new, flexible and needs-oriented concep
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t for the professionalization of journalists. Its main elements are peer-to-peer mentoring and building of professional associations using online tools for training, networking and journalistic research, a combination of approaches and an in situ delivery. It has been put into practice through the Science Journalism Cooperation (SjCOOP) project in Africa and in the Middle East." (Abstract)
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"In April 2006, the World Federation of Science Journalists (WFSJ) embarked on a three-year journey in peer to peer mentoring. Through Project SjCOOP (Science journalism COOPeration), 16 experienced science journalists from 15 African, Arab, European and North American countries became companions to
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sixty of their colleagues in 33 African and Arab countries for two years. It was essentially a mentoring project at a distance, across multiple cultures, across countries and continents. The SjCOOP project led to the creation of seven associations of science journalists and made African and Arab science journalists true partners in the international community of science journalism. In this guidebook, Kathryn O’Hara, who gave the initial training in mentoring to the SjCOOP mentors, shares the lessons learned in the mentoring process and looks into the complex mentor-mentee relationship which is always full of surprises." (Foreword, page 3)
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"Typically today's tasks in management and consulting include project management, running workshops and strategic work - all complex activities, which require a multitude of skills and competencies. This standard work, which is also well accepted amongst consultants, gives you a reference or cookboo
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k-style access to the most important tools, including a rating of each tool in terms of applicability, ease of use and effectiveness. In his book, Nicolai Andler presents about 120 of such tools, grouped into task-specific categories entitled Define Situation, Gather Information, Information Consolidation, Creativity, Goal Setting, Organisational Analysis, Technical Analysis, Strategic Analysis, Decision Making, and Project Management. Checklists and application scenarios further enhance the use of this toolbox." (Publisher description)
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"Using detailed checklists, the authors explain the stages of a typical consultancy, paying close attention to the practical, ethical, financial, and legal aspects of the process. Drawing on their own extensive experience and a wide-ranging survey of international NGOs and freelance consultants, the
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y discuss how to develop more effective working relationships with all the relevant stakeholders, including donors, partners, programme managers, local staff, and local communities. They also show how development agencies can manage particular consultancies in order to promote long-term learning and thus improve the general quality of their programmes." (Oxfam website)
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