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The Role of the Media in Peacebuilding in Yemen
Bonn: Center for Applied Research in Partnership with the Orient (CARPO) (2020), 15 pp.
"The increased political capture of the Yemeni media since 2014 has reinforced diverging political discourses and has contributed to polarization across society and to political fragmentation. Content of newspapers, television and online platforms has further eroded journalistic standards through th
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Foreign Aid and Journalism in the Global South: A Mouthpiece for Truth
Deep Insights
Lanham: Lexington Books (2020), 205 pp.
"[This book] examines the way in which foreign aid has shaped professional ideologies of journalism as part of systematic and orchestrated efforts since the beginning of the twentieth century to shape journalism as a political institution of the Global South. Foreign aid pushed for cultural converge
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Google, the Media Patron: How the Digital Giant Ensnares Journalism
Frankfurt am Main: Otto Brenner Stiftung (2020), 124 pp.
"The study shows that the data giant’s rise to become a patron of the media began in France, where, responding to political pressure, it set up a 60-million-euro fund to support press publishers’ innovation projects in 2013. The French fund was the blueprint for the Digital News Initiative (DNI)
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"Big changes start small": Geschichten von Menschen, die etwas bewegen. Ein Wirkungsbericht
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2020), 97 pp.
"Die DW Akademie sammelt und dokumentiert die Wirkungen ihrer Projekte auf verschiedenen Ebenen, mit verschiedenen Methoden. Dazu zählen zunächst drei Wege, die heute Standard in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit sind: erstens angewandte Studien, die neues Wissen über Wirkungen ermöglichen, zweiten
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Multi-Donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists: Annual Report, 2019
Paris: UNESCO (2020), 163 pp.
"This progress report presents the main findings and achievements of a self-evaluation exercise conducted by the responsible UNESCO project officers at Headquarters and in the relevant Field Offices." (Page 3)
The Wisdom of the Crowd: Promoting Media Development Through Deliberative Initiatives
Deep Insights
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2020), 28 pp.
"An innovative new set of citizen engagement practices—collectively known as deliberative democracy—offers important lessons that, when applied to the media development efforts, can help improve media assistance efforts and strengthen independent media environments around the world [...] Through
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Syrian Independent Exile Media
Deep Insights
International Media Support (IMS) (2020), 64 pp.
"The Syrian independent exile media as a sector is at the core of this study. To understand the unique nature of this sector, the study contextualises the issues pertaining to the Syrian independent exile media in the wider framework of exile media globally, and donors’ approaches to media develop
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Is Media Assistance Obsolete? A Practice-Based Perspective on the Potential for Digital Technologies to Achieve Media Development Goals in Sub-Saharan Africa
Dublin: Technological University Dublin, Doctoral Thesis (2020), 417 pp.
"This thesis examines the impact on the Media Assistance sector of the arrival of digital technologies into the ‘information ecosystems’ in which it operates. Whereas historically in Media Assistance, broadcast media and the press have been the preferred (or available) media for achieving develo
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Philippines: Initiative for Media Freedom
Internews (2020), 2 pp.
"The Initiative for Media Freedom (IMF) is a five-year program implemented by Internews and funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) with the support of the American people. Internews and its partners work collaboratively to enhance democratic governance that provides
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Sustainability Goals in the Field of Media Development: The Case of Fondation Hirondelle
Jönköping University, School of Education and Communication (2020), 15 pp.
"The aim of this study is to analyse one of the leading development aid projects in the field of the media, Lausanne-based Fondation Hirondelle (FH), from a communication perspective: It will first be conceptualized in a broader socio-cultural and political sense, in relation to the paradigm of sust
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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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Evaluating Academic and Media Nongovernmental Organization Partnerships for Participatory Data Gathering
International Journal of Market Research, volume 63, issue 1 (2020), pp. 43-57
"This article discusses participatory methods for data gathering in the context of a partnership between a Swiss-based media development organization, Fondation Hirondelle, and a research team at the University of Sheffield. In 2018–2019, the partnership conducted fieldwork which focused on the im
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Needs Assessment of Independent Media in the Neighbourhood: A Summary of the Report Produced for the European Commission’s DG NEAR
Manchester: University of Salford (2020), 19 pp.
"This summary presents the top-level findings of an eight-month research project aimed at assessing the needs of independent media in the EU Neighbourhood (East and South). The study was carried out by four international experts who visited 11 of the 16 partner countries and conducted interviews wit
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Wie ich lernte, die Welt im Radio zu erklären: Von Radio Bremen zur Übersee-Brücke
Bremen: Kellner Verlag (2020), 359 pp.
"Als die Tonstudios, 1963, noch voll verkabelt sind, beginnt Klaus Jürgen Schmidt, sich durch die Strukturen der Öffentlich-Rechtlichen zu schlagen. Die biografische Erzählung ist ein Einblick hinter die Kulissen von Radio Bremen, aber auch in das Leben des Autors, der immer wieder für sein Idea
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Sostenibilidad de medios comunitarios en la Red CORAPE
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie; Coordinadora de Radios Populares y Educativas del Ecuador (CORAPE) (2020), 33 pp.
"La Coordinadora de Medios Comunitarios, Populares y Educativos de Ecuador (CORAPE) es la red de medios comunitarios más grande de Ecuador y desde 2016 ha sido socio principal de DW Akademie en el país sudamericano. Entre 2016 y 2019 ambas organizaciones ejecutaron un proyecto financiado por el Mi
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Donor Aid and Private Investment: Their Interplay with Media Development
Sage Open, volume 10, issue 2 (2020), 12 pp.
"This review has shown that media assistance from donor sources enhanced the development of the African media generally especially after the Second World War, but the inability of outlets to sustain their operations financially usher them into the “operational survival phase” where private inves
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Environmental Media Grantmaking: How Funders Are Tipping the Scales Toward Change
Philadelphia: Media Impact Funders (2020), 32 pp.
"This report—which complements MIF’s in-person and online convenings throughout the year—aims to highlight trends in environmental media grantmaking, impact studies and examples of promising media projects, and insights from funders in the space. This report focuses on U.S. funders who give in
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Overall Programme Information
Paris: UNESCO (2020), ?? pp.
"This report assesses progress towards the achievement of the above-mentioned outcomes during the period of 1 January to 31 December 2018, the de-facto year of operation of the inception phase for the MDPFoE. Initial contributions were provided by Austria, Canada, Norway and Switzerland. On the seco
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Measuring Global Media Freedom: The Media Freedom Analyzer as a New Assessment Tool
Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2020), xv, 252 pp.
"The Media Freedom Analyzer developed by Laura Schneider is a new way to measure global media freedom in a more objective, unbiased and transparent way. Grounded in the opinions of around 1000 experts from 126 countries, the index is the first empirically validated tool to assess free and independen
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Evaluation of the Regional Independent Media Support Programme: Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras, 2017–2019
Helsinki: Vikes Finnish Foundation for Media and Development (2020), 59 pp.
"Taking into account the actual situation in the region, the support that VIKES provides for independent journalism is more urgent than ever. Journalists in the region are facing unprecedented challenges, from declining revenues, a broken business model and a new form of censorship, threats to journ
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