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Public Funding of Private Media

Corinne Schweizer, Manuel Puppis, Matthias Künzler, Samuel Studer

London: LSE Media Policy Project (2014), 17 pp.

"As advertising revenues shift to non-journalistic platforms, news organizations face financial difficulties. To safeguard pluralism and editorial competition, alternative funding sources should be considered. Policymakers can support private media organizations with mechanisms such as tax relief or ... more

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Measuring Media Impact: Taking the Long Term View, Supporting Media Independence

Anya Schiffrin

Columbia Unversity, School of International and Public Affairs (2014), 50 pp.

"The question of when and how the media can bring about social and political change is a perennial one. We know more about what does not work than what does. Even so, donors increasingly ask for proof of media impact and they often hope that data will provide the answer. New tools can provide inform ... more

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Aide internationale au secteur des médias du Burundi : Analyse de l’efficience et des effets pervers induits. Cas pratique : Analyse du Plan d’Action Commun d’Appui aux Médias. Deuxième génération

Brice Ryckaert

Haute Ecole de la Province de Namur (2014), 35 pp.

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Changing the Narrative: China‘s Media Offensive in Africa

Sergio Grassi

Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2014), 9 pp.

"China’s media offensive in Africa is an expression of the need to create advantageous conditions for its own trade relations and for strategic alliances, for example in international organizations. At the same time, China’s global charm offensive or »charm defensive« is also a reaction to wha ... more

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Role of Media in Fostering Democracy in Afghanistan 2001 to 2013

Norma Rahmanzai Isaczai

University of Leicester, Master Thesis (2014), 103 pp.

"This dissertation is a study about the growth and development of media in Afghanistan and its role and contribution to national and international collective efforts to build a modern, stable and democratic Afghanistan in the last decade. In pursuing my dissertation, I have examined the Afghan media ... more

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Seizing Opportunities: For Free and Independent Media Worldwide

Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2014), 34 pp.

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Video letters, mediation and (proper) distance: A qualitative study of international development communication in practice

Florencia Enghel

Karlstad: Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Thesis (2014), 268 pp.

"This study focuses on the institutional practice of international development communication. Through a qualitative study of the Videoletters project, it examines a situated process of intervention in its complexity and analyzes how the specifics of mediation illuminate issues of proximity and dista ... more

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Principles for Media Assistance

In: Accountability and Democratic Governance: Orientations and Principles for Development

Paris: OECD (2014), pp. 97-109

"1. Incorporate media assistance into a larger framework of development aid. 2. Incorporate media indicators and audits into governance diagnostics and needs analysis. 3. Co-operate with media development CSOs and determine media objectives and outcomes, not methodologies. 4. Focus on building publi ... more

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Plötzliches Ende

Thomas Schuler

Message, issue 3 (2014), pp. 30-33

"Zu Recht stellt sich die mit viel Glamour gestartete Journalistenakademie Intajour als Erfolg dar. Aber warum wickelt Bertelsmann sie jetzt ab? Und warum verhindert das Medienunternehmen den Fortbestand als unabhängige Akademie?" (Seite 30)

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Content Analysis: Measuring the Success of Journalism Capacity Building

Christoph Spurk, Jan Lublinski

Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2014), 8 pp.

"In this paper we describe how quality in reporting could be measured through content analysis. We show that this approach, although somewhat technical, is feasible. It can help projects to become better and more successful. As a suggestion for practitioners in media development we present three opt ... more

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Independent Evaluation: Cambodian Communications Assistance Project

Annmaree O’Keeffe, Mandy Gyles

ABC International Development (2014), 48 pp.

"The Cambodian Communications Assistance Project (CCAP) is a sub-national governance project, working with four provincial departments of information (PDI) – Battambang, Kampong Cham, Kampot and Siem Reap. It started in May 2012 and is due to be completed in December 2014. The project, with a budg ... more

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Media Freedom Indices: What They Tell Us - and What They Don't. A Practical Guidebook

Laura Schneider

Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2014), 67 pp.

"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

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Navigating Theory, Negotiating Difference and Beating the System: A Critical How-To of Media Assistance Evaluation

Jessica Noske-Turner

Brisbane: Queensland University of Technology, School of Journalism, Media and Communication, Creative Industries Faculty, Doctoral Thesis (2014), 333 pp.

"This thesis explores how the impacts of Australian media assistance on social change and governance can be most effectively evaluated and understood. It is based on a three-stage research design, using predominantly qualitative research methods. In doing so it contributes in-depth insights into the ... more

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Pacific Islands Rentier Behaviour and Community Radio: Revisiting MIRAB

Linda Austin

Paper presented at the 10th OURMedia Conference: Diverse Communities, Diverse Media (2014), 22 pp.

"For nearly 30 years, the widely accepted economic-rationalist model used to explain Pacific island development has been variations of Bertram and Watters’ (1985) MIRAB model, or that of development based on the extraction of “rents” from Migration, Remittances, Aid and Bureaucracy. This paper ... revisits the MIRAB model through a culture-centred approach to investigate the phenomenon of community radio, specifically why there appears to be so little of it in the South Pacific islands and what can be learned from comparing the few successful community radio stations with those that have failed. One key difference relates to indigenous notions of rent extraction and wealth redistribution. Hau’ofa (2005) contends that all Pacific island cultures are defined in fundamental ways by the adaptive interactions between people and the sea. This “oceanic” orientation – one that is expansive, cyclical, open and fluid – stands in opposition to the bounded, stationary and seemingly changeless nature of land, which lies at the heart of Western development theories. This outward orientation predisposes islanders to anticipate the introduction of new technologies and ideas from exogenous sources, which are then interrogated, appropriated and transformed into “something meaningful” to island societies. In this way, Pacific communities have long sought rent-seeking relationships with the outside world to sustain their village lives and have redistributed this wealth through social networks. As will be demonstrated through case studies involving donor-initiated, women’s advocacy, and faith-based community radio stations, this rent-seeking orientation is pervasive throughout all levels of Pacific society, from civil society organizations (CSOs) that work with international donors to establish community radio stations, to the communities purported to benefit from the stations, to volunteers who work within them. How well the rent-extracted wealth is redistributed within culturally appropriate social networks is often the key to a radio station’s future sustainability. Such pathways to sustainable development within alternative islander-defined development models, however, are often opaque to international development actors working within Western-defined development theories, resulting in the widespread failure of many community media development projects." (Abstract) more

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Assessing Impact, Evaluating Adaptability: A Decade of Radio La Benevolencija in Rwanda, Burundi, and the DRC

Lauren Kogen

Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS);Altai Consulting (2014), 38 pp.

"RLB’s interventions in Rwanda, Burundi, and the DRC have achieved significant knowledge, attitude, and behavior changes. Among the most notable of these: With respect to gains in knowledge, members of RLB’s audience have gained better understandings of the cycle of violence and methods used by ... more

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Evaluating the Impacts of Media Assistance: Problems and Principles

Jessica Noske-Turner

Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 4, issue 2 (2014), 21 pp.

"This paper suggests that the problem of impact evaluation of media assistance is understood to be more than a simple issue of methods, and outlines three underlying tensions and challenges that stifle implementation of effective practices in media assistance evaluation. First, there are serious con ... more

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Understanding Data: Can News Media Rise to the Challenge?

Tara Susman-Peña

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2014), 38 pp.

"Acknowledgement of the increasingly central role of data in decision making at all levels of society is increasingly visible. The High-Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda called for “A New Data Revolution” that would help track progress toward development goals and ensure the inclus ... more

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Development Efforts to Promote Investigative Reporting: A Preliminary Assessment of Centers in Azerbaijan, Jordan, Bangladesh, and Bosnia

Rosemary Armao

Paper presented at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Rio de Janeiro;Investigative Journalism Education Consortium (IJEC) (2014), 12 pp.

"This paper compares and contrasts four centers: The Center for Investigative Reporting in Bosnia-Herzegovina (CIN), The Journalism Training and Research Initiative in Bangladesh (JATRI), the Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism in Jordan (ARIJ), and The Caucasus Media Investigations Center ( ... more

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New Freedoms, New Challenges: Fostering a Professional, Inclusive Media in Burma

Sandy Barron

Washington, DC; Arcata, Calif.: Internews;USAID (2014), 31 pp.

"Since 2001, Internews has trained and supported more than one thousand junior and senior journalists from all of Burma’s major ethnic groups, both those inside the country and those based outside, in print, radio, television, and online reporting. The cumulative effects of this close collaboratio ... more

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Assessing the Impact of TMF on the Tanzanian Media: A Practical Approach

Sanne van den Berg

Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 4, issue 2 (2014), 11 pp.

"The Tanzania Media Fund (TMF) supports individual journalists and media institutions to produce quality public interest and investigative journalism content that better informs the public, contributes to debate and thereby increases public demand for greater accountability in Tanzania. TMF has used ... more