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Monitoring Media Sustainability: Economic and Business Revisions to Development Indicators

In: What is Sustainable Journalism? Integrating the Environmental, Social, and Economic Challenges of Journalism
Peter Berglez; Ulrika Olausson; Mart Ots (eds.)
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2018), pp. 243-256
"Robert G. Picard describes the evolvement of UNESCO's media development indicators. The chapter describes a growing focus on economic, financial and managerial dimensions, since, it argues, they pave the fundament to any sustainable, commercial or non-commercial journalistic venture. What Picard cr ... more

Vertrauensforschung für NGOs: NGO-Trust Index und NGO-Trust Map

In: Handbuch NGO-Kommunikation
Nadine Remus; Lars Rademacher (eds.)
Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2018), pp. 443-460
"Dieser Beitrag widmet sich dem medienvermittelten Vertrauen in NGOs. Ein auf Basis der Theorie des öffentlichen Vertrauens (Bentele 1994) entwickeltes, inhaltsanalytisches Messinstrument, der NGO-Trust Index (NGO-TI) und die Ergebnis-Visualisierung in der NGO-Trust Map (Wohlgemuth et al. 2013), we ... more

Indicators

INTRAC (2017), 4 pp.
"Indicators are commonly used in social development to provide evidence of change. They form an important part of most monitoring and evaluation systems and approaches. There are many different types of indicator, including quantitative and qualitative indicators. They can be developed in different ... more
"Some programme indicators are designed to be collected at programme level. Others are designed to capture, summarise or aggregate information collected at project or partner level. It is important to clarify how information on indicators is transmitted between different levels of a programme." (Int ... more
"El presente artículo aborda la construcción del Índice de Rentabilidad Social en Comunicación (IRSCOM), que pretende recoger valores ligados al funcionamiento de los medios audiovisuales, eludiendo la visión mercantilista, potenciando la participación ciudadana y la transparencia en su gesti ... more
"The handbook is based on the authors’ varied experiences from consulting the implementation of media mappings in several transitional countries and it will focus on two of these projects: a. mapping the Mongolian media landscape initiated in 1999 ten years after the break down of Communism and b. ... more
"In times of digital transformation media all over the world have to come up with new ways to ensure their survival. Meanwhile, media development actors are searching for new concepts and orientation in their support of media organizations and media markets. This paper presents DW Akademie’s sugge ... more
"The existing international media freedom indices provide a variety of different information tools that contain important knowledge for media development practitioners. As shown, the different tools are of varying significance for the relevant purposes within the media development context: while som ... more

The (Un)safe Practice of Journalism: An Analysis Based on UNESCO’s Journalists’ Safety Indicators Assessments

In: Freedom of Expression and Media in Transition: Studies and Reflections in the Digital Age
Ulla Carlsson (ed.)
Göteborg: Nordicom (2016), pp. 103-107
"Journalists around the world are being killed and threatened for doing their work. This is a serious hindrance to freedom of expression and the safe practice of journalism. UN and UNESCO have led the process to create the UN Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity to i ... more
"This study identifies and addresses key challenges concerning M&E for climate change adaptation (CCA). It does so by documenting good practices and good practice principles on the development, selection, and use of indicators used in the M&E of adaptation interventions. The study also looks at the ... more
"By illustrating the rise of neoliberalism as a case in point, the study hypothesises a neoliberal influence on the measurement of freedom of information. To test such assumption, the work describes three ideal typical models of freedom of information – the liberal, egalitarian and neoliberal mode ... more

Field Guide for Data Quality Management

Washington, DC: Pact (2014), 57 pp.
"Data quality is a cornerstone of accountability in program reporting. In the international development sector, although we are often focused on reporting, ensuring the quality of the data that we report is critical for our partners, our donors, and our beneficiaries. In addition, Data Quality Manag ... more
"This guidebook aims to give the reader an overview of the existing international media freedom measures and how they can be used. By introducing the methodology and pointing out the strengths and weaknesses, it allows the readers to better understand, judge and thus critically reflect the indices ... more

A Guidebook of Broadcast and Newspaper Indicators

Montreal: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2013), 78 pp.
"This guidebook has been developed for use by professionals, policymakers and the research community involved in media development around the world. Its development was based on the UIS questionnaires on media statistics (see Appendices II, III and IV). This guide is not intended to provide a full s ... more

Building indicators in media assistance: Four ways evaluation reports present "change"

Shanghai; Brisbane: ICA Regional Conference: Communication and Social Transformation, 8-10 November 2013;Queensland University of Technology (2013), 15 pp.
"This paper draws on some preliminary findings from a comparative thematic analysis of 47 evaluation documents of media assistance programs. The aim of this analysis is to identify trends in impact evaluation practice in the media assistance field, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of differen ... more
"The present text explains how the Media Sustanability Index has refined its instrument and procedures to better capture the impact of social media." (Abstract)
"The present article discusses how the new categoryof “citizen journalist” fits into the overall media environment and how the Freedom House Freedom of the Press methodology has been changed to incorporate this category." (Abstract)

Freedom of Expression, Media and Digital Communications: A Practical Guide

EPRD Policy & Development;European Commission (2012), 39 pp.
"The European Commission has begun to integrate a political economy approach throughout the project cycle. This guide tailors the political economy approach to the media development sector specifically. Using a political economy media matrix (PEMM) as its basis, it explains how to integrate the PE a ... more
"In step with United Nations efforts to further promote universal standards and better protect people against human rights violations, this publication of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights provides practical guidance for the development of quantitative and qualitati ... more