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The Media Viability Manifesto: A Common Framework for Joint Action
Key Guides
Bonn et al.: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie; Media Viability Manifesto Initiative (2024), 33 pp.
"The Media Viability Manifesto (MVM) provides an urgently needed common framework for joint action from the global media development community. Its aim is three-pronged: To foster conceptual clarity, to strengthen strategic collaboration between multiple stakeholders, and to align practical implemen
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Manifiesto sobre la Viabilidad de los Medios de comunicación: Un marco común para la acción conjunta
Key Guides
Bonn et al.: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie; Media Viability Manifesto Initiative; UNESCO IPDC (2024), 37 pp.
"El Manifiesto sobre la Viabilidad de los Medios de comunicación (MVM, por sus siglas en inglés) proporciona un marco común, urgentemente necesario, para la acción conjunta de la comunidad mundial de desarrollo de los medios. Su objetivo es triple: fomentar la claridad conceptual, reforzar la co
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Manifeste sur la viabilité des médias: Un cadre commun pour une action conjointe
Key Guides
Bonn et al.: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie; Media Viability Manifesto Initiative; UNESCO IPDC (2024), 37 pp.
"Le Manifeste sur la viabilité des médias (MVM) établit un cadre commun, dont le besoin est urgent, pour une action conjointe de la part de la communauté mondiale du développement des médias. Son objectif est triple : Promouvoir une vision claire, renforcer la collaboration stratégique entre
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Press Forward: A Guide for Local Funders
Press Forward (2024), 23 pp.
"Press Forward aims to grow the overall investment in local news and strengthen communities across the country over the next five years by focusing on such shared values as equity, accessibility, collaboration and centering community needs. The vision of the founding coalition is to increase resourc
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Exiting / transitioning from international partnerships
INTRAC (2022), 27 pp.
"This toolkit is designed to help small INGOs plan for and undertake exits and transitions from international partnerships with national civil society partners based
in other countries. It includes resources for times when exits or transitions have been planned, and also for when there has been a c
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Media for Democracy Assessment Tool: Learning, Evaluation, and Research (LER) Activity
Key Guides
Washington, DC; Landover, MD: USAID; Cloudburst Group (2021), 93 pp.
"The purpose of the Media for Democracy Assessment Tool (MAT) is to assist United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in producing media assessments to inform strategy on media and democracy programming, help inform potential media development programming goals, and help provide an i
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Charitable Giving in the Media: Research Highlights
Los Angeles: USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center, Media Impact Project (2021), 15 pp.
Wozu Non-Profit-Journalismus? Ein Report zu gemeinnützigem Journalismus – mit Wirkungslogiken, Qualitätskriterien und Tipps für Förder*innen
Key Guides
Berlin: PHINEO gemeinnützige AG (2020), 63 pp.
"Der Report „Wozu Non-Profit-Journalismus?“ macht sich für eine dritte Säule im Mediensystem stark: Der gemeinnützige Journalismus hält der Krise Antworten entgegen und leistet als Ergänzung zum öffentlich-rechtlichen und privaten Verlagsjournalismus einen Beitrag zur Medienvielfalt. Er is
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The Role of Media in Creating Inclusive, Just and Peaceful Societies: Guidelines for SDC Media Assistance
Key Guides
Bern: Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) (2020), 41 pp.
"The guidance aims to give SDC staff and members of the Democratisation, Decentralisation and Local Governance (DDLG) network an updated view on media development – a field that is still relatively new and for which there is more and more demand. The guidance provides an overall understanding of t
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An Introduction to Funding Journalism and Media
Key Guides
Ariadne European Funders for Social Change and Human Rights (2018), 43 pp.
"Section 1 summarises the background to and rationale for philanthropic funding of the media, including from a social justice and human rights perspective. This should help Ariadne grantmakers who are not sure if and why they should support media directly to make an informed decision, or to help mak
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Journalism and Media Grantmaking: Five Things You Need to Know. Five Ways to Get Started
Philadelphia: Wyncote Foundation; Media Impact Funders, new ed. (2018), 34 pp.
"This booklet is a starter guide for foundations interested in exploring how to make impactful journalism and community-information grants. It shares the experiences of dozens of foundations that have recently funded news and information projects. It also introduces the work of peer foundations that
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Same Beds, Different Dreams? Charitable Foundations and Newsroom Independence in the Global South
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2017), 32 pp.
"The growing trend of non-profit journalism has received much attention of late, but this report takes a unique look at how non-profit funding is affecting journalism in the Global South. Amidst the collapse of traditional business models for news organizations, funding from philanthropic foundation
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DG Enlargement: Guidelines for EU Support to Media Freedom and Media Integrity in Enlargement Countries, 2014-2020
European Commission (2014), 15 pp.
"In its political support the Commission will encourage enlargement countries to make legislation more supportive of the media. It will also promote the involvement of media and civil society in the pre-accession process, including in the formulation, implementation and monitoring of sector strategi
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Freedom of Expression, Media and Digital Communications: A Practical Guide
Key Guides
EPRD Policy & Development; European Commission (2012), 39 pp.
"The European Commission has begun to integrate a political economy (PE) 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
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Developing Independent Media as an Institution of Accountable Governance: A How-To Guide
Key Guides
Washington, DC: World Bank, Communication for Governance and Accountability Program (CommGAP) (2011), xi, 81 pp.
"This handbook is designed for those who may be interested in supporting media development programs, but are unclear about the whys, hows, and whens. It introduces the fundamentals of media development, provide ways to conceptualize and analyze the sector, and helps guide programming based on politi
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"This publication is a short, easy-to-read introduction to the field of media assistance. Following the usual steps of the project cycle, it describes the principal elements to analyse needs in media assistance and to select specific intervention strategies. The document distinguishes six interventi
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Developing Media in Stabilization and Reconstruction Operations
Key Guides
Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2007), 20 pp.
"This report [...] recommends that interveners take the following series of steps as they generate a strategy for media development in post-conflict zones.
Predeployment Phase: Mapping and Strategizing: map out the existing media landscape; identify the postwar condition of the media infrastructure
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