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The State of Media Development: Middle East and North Africa
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2025), 25 pp.
"In light of the rapid changes in the political, economic, and technological landscape in the region, there is an urgent need to reassess the goals and priorities of media support programs in the MENA region, focusing on challenges, best practices, and providing effective recommendations. This also
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Support for Ukrainian Refugees Through Media: Summary of Project Achievements
Paris: UNESCO (2025), 10 pp.
"Through this project, UNESCO strengthened fact-based information exchange between refugees and host citizens as media audience. In doing so, it fostered social cohesion. The project assisted the media in their portrayal of the diversity of viewpoints, and governments in their response to the refuge
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From threat to reality: Independent media endangered, security and democracy weakened, autocracy and disinformation thriving
International Fund for Public Interest Media (IFPIM) (2025), 18 pp.
"Rooted in research and consultation with independent media organisations in 30 middle- and low-income countries, this briefing argues that the weakening of democracy, security, and development is closely correlated with the near extinction of independent media. It demonstrates – with evidence
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Brokers of journalism: Exploring the assigned role of interpreters in media training in Vietnam
Australian Journalism Review, volume 47, issue 2 (2025), pp. 243 - 261
"In this article, I explore the assigned role of interpreters in journalism training programmes in Vietnam, focusing on two media aid projects funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida): the Local Radio Project and the Further Training of Journalists programme. The stu
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Demokratie beginnt im Lokalen: Zeit für eine neue Medienförderung
Berlin: Heinrich Böll Stiftung (2025), 30 pp.
"[...] mit welchen Instrumenten können journalistische Marktaustritte verringert und Neugründungen gefördert werden – und das mit möglichst effizientem Mitteleinsatz? In diesem Kurzgutachten vergleichen wir verschiedene strukturelle Maßnahmen sowie Förderinstrumente mit Blick auf Kriterien w
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The Critical Role Support Organizations Can Play in Maturing the Local News Field
Democracy Fund; Commoner Company (2025), 16 pp.
"[...] this report aims to help support organizations foster a shared identity so that, in collaboration with funders and newsmakers, they can execute on our primary recommendation: Create a field-level agenda for the local news field. We recommend a field agenda address at least these four key goa
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‘We have nothing now’: Myanmar’s exiled media face existential crisis after Trump severs aid
The Guardian, 23 February (2025)
"Organisations that take extreme risks to document atrocities, corruption and war crimes fear for their future after USAid cuts." (Introduction)
"The US has suspended funding for development aid, including for media. Meanwhile, China and Russia have been stepping up media assistance programs for years with a variety of strategies, explains Dani Madrid-Morales." (Introduction)
Call for an increase of European support for journalism and free media worldwide
CFI; Deutsche Welle DW Akademie; Fondation Hirondelle; International Media Support (IMS), April 29 (2025)
"At this critical point in time, independent journalists, public interest media and civil society organisations in countries around the world need decisive support. They are directly and severely impacted by the current US administration’s decision to freeze financial support to independent media.
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Urgent call for governments, multilateral institutions, and philanthropies to support independent media and journalism
Brussels: Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD) (2025), 3 pp.
"The recent U.S. government decision to suspend foreign assistance has abruptly halted key grants and programmes that have been essential in sustaining global development, cooperation, and supporting international peace and security and human rights efforts worldwide, putting in jeopardy the ability
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Reimagining Funding for Journalism: Key Takeaways from IJF 2025
Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD), May 6 (2025)
"At the International Journalism Festival (IJF) in Perugia this year, journalism funding and sustainability took centre stage. International funders, media leaders, and innovators grappled with the urgent question of how to keep independent journalism not just alive—but thriving—in an era of shr
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Media Assistance: Mind the Gap! A critical review of common practices and strategies. Presentations
Dortmund: Erich-Brost-Institut; Forum Medien und Entwicklung (fome) (2025), 202 slides
"This is a compilation of the presentations at the fome conference on "Media Assistance: Mind the Gap!" from September 30 – October 1, 2024, in Dortmund." (commbox)
The Economic Imperative of Investing in Public Interest Media
Forum on Information & Democracy (2025), 20 pp.
"Halting the decline of public interest media requires systematically recognizing, measuring, and rewarding the true value of public interest media to national and global economies and enabling governments to more effectively guide both public and private innovation. As we have argued, too much of t
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Policies in Parallel? A Comparative Study of Journalistic AI Policies in 52 Global News Organisations
Digital Journalism, volume 13, issue 9 (2025), pp. 1578–1598
"A growing number of news organisations have set up guidelines to govern how they use artificial intelligence (AI). This article analyses a set of 52 guidelines, mainly from Western Europe and North America, from publishers in Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Finland, Germany, India, the Netherlands, Norway
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In Eastern Europe, freeze on US aid leaves door open to Russian disinformation
Washington, DC: International Center for Journalists, February 25 (2025)
"The Trump administration’s freeze on U.S. foreign aid will lead to a surge in Russian disinformation across Eastern Europe, experts warn, as independent media outlets across the region will be forced to shutter, leaving a vacuum of credible information in their wake. “Russian disinfo will have
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Artificial Intelligence and Journalism: A Systematic Bibliometric and Thematic Analysis of Global Research
Computers in Human Behavior Reports, volume 20 (2025), 21 pp.
"Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping journalistic practices across the globe, offering new opportunities while raising ethical, professional, and societal concerns. This study presents a comprehensive, second-generation systematic review of published articles on AI in journalism from 2010 to 2
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Funding Without Strings: The Case for IJ4EU’s Investigative Journalism Support Model
Journalism Practice (2025), 19 pp.
"Against the backdrop of market failure, shrinking newsroom budgets, and increasing political pressure on the press, the Investigative Journalism for Europe (IJ4EU) program has emerged as a journalist-led, donor-funded initiative that supports collaborative investigative reporting across borders. Dr
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Media development pathways: A case study of the Media Institute of Southern Africa
London: University of Westminster, Doctoral Thesis (2025), 222 pp.
"The purpose of this research project is to contribute to the academic and practitioner understanding of how donors impact the development of media systems in developing and transitioning countries. The study reflects on the evolution of donor strategies in media development over the past 30 years s
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