commbox Media Assistance

Filter

1689

Sort by:

Direction:

Download (0)

Strengthening Kenyan Media: Exploring a Path Towards Journalism in the Public Interest

Asch Harwood, Emily Herrick, Wilson Ugangu

Omidyar Network (2017), 33 pp.

External Link (5)

A Changing Asian Media: Assessing Challenges and Opportunities for Evolving Media in South and Southeast Asia

International Media Support (IMS);Fojo Media Institute (2017), 51 pp.

"Countries in the regions despite extreme diversity share many of the same challenges with their media environments – particularly when it comes to quality content production and distribution, journalist safety and impunity, the enabling legal environment, gender and social inequality as well as m ... more

Download (0)

Strengthening Free and Independent Media in South Sudan (i-STREAM): FY17 Annual Report

Charles Haskins

Internews (2017), 93 pp.

External Link (9)

Ongoing and Submitted Projects in the Field of Media and Freedom of Expression Online and Offline: From 1 May 2017 to 30 September 2017

Council of Europe (2017), 41 pp.

"Twelve cooperation projects with external funding (voluntary contribution or jointly funded by the European Union) are currently underway amounting to 7 429 398 Euros in all. Some activities are also financed by the ordinary budget of the Council of Europe. Approximately 153 activities were organis ... more

External Link (9)

La (re-)professionnalisation du journalisme tunisien dans la période transitionnelle: Le rôle des acteurs extranationaux

Olivier Koch

In: La circulation des productions culturelles: cinémas, informations et séries télévisées dans les mondes arabes et musulmans

Dominique Marchetti (dir.)

Rabat: Centre Jacques-Berque (2017), ?? pp.

"La nature de l’enseignement et l’évaluation de la pertinence du choix des formateurs sont également sujettes à caution. En effet, 54,3 % des participants estiment que les contenus dispensés ne sont pas adaptés au contexte national. D’une certaine manière, ceci est confirmé par les form ... more

Download (0)

Peer-To-Peer Programme: Managing the Digital Transition. A Training Challenge for National Broadcasters in the MENA Region. Final Results

MedMedia;COPEAM (2017), 7 pp.

"This report presents the final results of a nine-month regional peer-to-peer exchange programme implemented in 2017 by MedMedia, an EU-funded programme, and COPEAM, in partnership with public service broadcasters in the Southern Mediterranean Region. The programme aimed at developing training polic ... more

Download (0)

Formación dual en periodismo - ProPeriodismo II. Formación dual para un periodismo de calidad

La Paz: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2017), 2 pp.

External Link (9)

Google Scholar (11)

WorldCat (8)

Media Development, DAC, and China: Different Approaches, Same Public Diplomacy

Valerie A. Cooper

Journal of Media Business Studies, volume 14, issue 1 (2017), pp. 25-37

"More than US $441 million was spent on media development worldwide in 2012, with African countries receiving 28% of that amount. This funding came from a variety of sources, including both established Development Assistance Committee (DAC) countries and emerging donors such as China. These countrie ... more

External Link (11)

Google Scholar (12)

WorldCat (11)

End of an Era and the Debacle of Cross-Border Media Building Projects in Africa

Sam Phiri

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 9, issue 3 (2017), pp. 401-414

"In the 1990s following the collapse of the Berlin Wall in Germany and the death of Apartheid in South Africa, several cross-national initiatives were undertaken in Africa to strengthen the role of the media in nascent democracies. Some 30 years later, several of these initiatives are dead while the ... more

External Link (10)

Doing Debate Differently: Media and Accountability

Will Taylor

London: BBC Media Action (2017), 34 pp.

"This paper discusses a number of ways in which media plays a part in increasing accountability. It draws on quantitative and qualitative data from BBC Media Action’s work in nine countries. It finds that: media can influence accountability by empowering people, creating opportunities for construc ... more

Download (0)

Strengthening Accountability Through Media in Kenya: Final Evaluation

Catharine Buckell, Sopie Baskett

London: BBC Media Action (2017), 59 pp.

"Funded by DFID, under the Global Grant project, BBC Media Action produced three seasons of the weekly TV and radio programme Sema Kenya (Kenya Speaks). Sema Kenya featured a moderated discussion between a live panel of officials and an audience of ‘ordinary’ Kenyans and was designed to enable i ... ndividuals, communities and governments to be better informed and more engaged in tackling governance challenges. Alongside this, BBC Media Action delivered a mentoring programme, initially with six local radio stations, and later with the national broadcaster Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC), which has the largest footprint in the country. Through this work, BBC Media Action aimed to strengthen the capacity of Kenya’s media sector to produce governance programming that supported and mainstreamed the overall objectives of the project at both the local and national level. [...] Sema Kenya contributed to people being more informed about and engaged in politics. Audiences were more knowledgeable about politics, discussed it more with friends and family, felt more confident in their ability to influence political processes and participated more in governance related activities (particularly at the community level) – all factors that support bottom-up accountability. Audiences themselves linked Sema Kenya with these outcomes. This finding was validated by analysis confirming a significant positive relationship between watching or listening to Sema Kenya and consistently higher knowledge, discussion and confidence to engage in politics, even when taking into account other factors that might influence these outcomes (such as education, age and interest in politics). While Sema Kenya’s audience was more likely to participate in politics, qualitative research respondents rarely attributed their actions directly to what they had heard on Sema Kenya. This reflects findings from advanced quantitative analysis (structural equation modelling) that suggests the link between Sema Kenya and increased political participation is indirect and mediated by political knowledge, discussion and self-efficacy. Supported by an extensive network of broadcast partners that stretched across all 47 counties in Kenya, the discussion programme reached an estimated 12.7 million people over three seasons, with a peak audience of 5.7 million in 2013 – the year of the general election. The show also maintained a loyal audience throughout all three seasons, with around half of all those reached annually tuning in for at least every second episode." (Executive summary, pages 6-7) more

External Link (10)

Google Scholar (8)

WorldCat (10)

Policy for Media and Communication in Humanitarian Action and Longterm Development Cooperation: Some Norwegian Experiences and Perspectives

Anne Skjelmerud, Ivar Evensmo

In: The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action

Robin Andersen; Robin Purnaka L. de Silva (eds.)

London: Routledge (2017), pp. 150-161

"Anne Skjelmerud and Ivar Evensmo, both senior advisers at the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, present a tour d'horizon of Norway's pioneering engagement to change the asymmetrical North-South news flow, a legacy of the colonial area, in order to improve the global flow of information. ... more

Download (1)

Local Radio in Afghanistan: A Sustainability Assessment

Nathalie Paarlberg, Kamran Parwana, Eric Davin et al.

Altai Consulting;Internews (2017), 136 pp.

"This study assesses the role and impact of this local radio station network as well as its sustainability prospects, focusing on four pillars of sustainability in particular: Financial sustainability: at a minimum, radio stations need to be able to support their activities, and ideally enjoy some s ... more

External Link (17)

Google Scholar (13)

WorldCat (14)

The Need and the Opportunities for Sustainability: The Case of Local Radio Stations in Tanzania

Christoph Spurk, Filip Dingerkus

Journal of Media Business Studies, volume 14, issue 1 (2017), pp. 38-59

"Local radio stations have mushroomed in Africa, including Tanzania, partly due to increased support from international donors. However, research results show that the lack of economic viability is a major constraint for local radio stations. They can hardly generate sufficient revenues from adverti ... more

Google Scholar (2)

WorldCat (3)

Streitgespräch. Google-Förderung: Ziemlich beste Feinde

Lorenz Matzat, Yannick Dillinger

Medium Magazin, issue 2 (2017), pp. 50-53

"Dürfen Medien eigene Projekte von Googles Digital News Initiative finanzieren lassen, führt das zur journalistischen „Schere im Kopf“? Wir haben stellvertretend für die Pro- und Contra-Lager in der Branche Lorenz Matzat (lokaler.de) und Yannick Dillinger (,‚Schwäbische Zeitung“) zum Str ... more

External Link (11)

Google Scholar (10)

WorldCat (9)

Media Interventions as Humanitarian Action

Shawn Powers

In: The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action

Robin Andersen; Robin Purnaka L. de Silva (eds.)

London: Routledge (2017), pp. 416-427

"This chapter aims to introduce the concept of an information intervention as an example of humanitarian action. Typically associated negatively with government efforts to incite conflict and tension, two case studies are explored-Haiti and Syria-to better understand how state-led information interv ... more

Google Scholar (2)

WorldCat (1)

Deutsche Ansätze für Entwicklungskommunikation: Die Konzeption von Medien und Kommunikation für Entwicklung durch die Deutsche Welle Akademie

Evelyn Stockmann

Leipzig: Universität Leipzig, Institut für Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft, Master Thesis (2017), 180 pp.

"Als Untersuchungsmaterial wurden die organisationseigenen, deutschsprachigen Veröffentlichungen ausgewählt, die auf der Website der DW Akademie dokumentiert sind [...] Insgesamt gingen 113 einzelne Textdokumente in die qualitative Inhaltsanalyse ein" (Seite 73-74) [...] "Unter der Einschränkung ... more

Google Scholar (11)

WorldCat (10)

El Fondo Internacional para la Diversidad Cultural: Una nueva herramienta para la cooperación en el audiovisual

Luis A. Albornoz

In: Diversidad e industria audiovisual: el desafío cultural del siglo XXI

Luis Alfonso Albornoz; María Trinidad García Leiva (eds.)

México, DF: Fondo de Cultura Económica (FCE) (2017), pp. 109-143

External Link (7)

Google Scholar (7)

WorldCat (9)

The death of B92: How it survived Milosevic’s authoritarianism but didn’t survive democracy

Dragan Stavljanin, Rade Veljanovski

International Journal of Digital Television, volume 8, issue 2 (2017), pp. 261-276

"This article examines how broadcaster B92, once the top-billed independent media in Serbia that resisted Milosevic’s authoritarianism, could not survive democracy. Although it withstood the crackdown and censorship of the war regime, it was eventually sunk by what could be considered ‘market ce ... more

Google Scholar (8)

WorldCat (8)

Radio Okapi Kindu: The Station That Helped Bring Peace to the Congo

Jennifer Bakody

Vancouver; Berkeley: Figure (2017), 304 pp.

"When Jennifer Bakody steps off the plane in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2004, she walks right into the hardest and most inspiring job an idealistic young journalist from Nova Scotia could ever imagine. Six years of war involving eight countries and several million deaths have just ended ... more