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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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Supporting Internet Freedom: The Case of Iran

Sherry Ricchiardi

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2014), 24 pp.

"The aim of this report is not to question the value of supporting Internet freedom in closed societies such as Iran. Rather, the intent is to provide a picture of how difficult it is to achieve progress in such countries. In times of tightening budgets for media development work, it is worth consid ... more

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The European Union's Rights-Based Support to the Media in the Enlargement Countries: With Special Attention to Turkey

Tolga Yazici, Sahin Karasar

International Journal of Arts and Commerce, volume 3, issue 7 (2014), pp. 12-24

"The European Union's dedication to freedom the media is articulated in different parts of its acquis and the European Union supports media freedom by funding member counties and enlargement countries. This study underlines the freedom of expression as a fundamental human right before the European U ... more

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Advances in African and Arab Science Journalism: Capacity Building and New Newsroom Structures Through Digital Peer-To-Peer Support

Jan Lublinski, Inka Reichert, Augustin Denis, Jean-Marc Fleury, Olfa Labassi, Christoph Spurk

African Journalism Studies, volume 35, issue 2 (2014), pp. 4-22

"Journalists who regularly cover science, health, environment and technology in Africa and the Arab world face a number of difficulties: Lack of elementary resources for journalistic research, and newsroom environments that are not always supportive of specialised reporting. Also a need for capacity ... more

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Windows of Opportunity: The Transformation of State Media to Public Service Media in Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Moldova and Serbia

Jan Lublinski, Erik Albrecht, Petra Berner, Laura Schneider, Merjam Wakili, Jackie Wilson

Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 4, issue 2 (2014), 30 pp.

"The transformation of state media to public service media (PSM) is one of the most ambitious endeavors in the field of media development. Not many efforts to free the national media from government control have succeeded in the past decades. In this paper the comparatively promising cases of Kyrgyz ... more

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Does Sustainability Require Transparency? The UN Divide Over Freedom of Information and Media in the Post-2015 Development Agenda

Bill Orme

Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 4, issue 2 (2014), 9 pp.

"The inclusion of a clear commitment to access to information in the SDGs [Sustainable Development Goals] – including factual “indicators” to monitor compliance – could have a profound impact on freedom of expression and media globally, advocates contend. Yet it remains uncertain whether any ... more

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The US Influence in Shaping Iraq’s Sectarian Media

Ahmed Khalid Al-Rawi

International Communication Gazette, volume 75, issue 4 (2013), pp. 374-391

"After the Anglo-American invasion, the US neo-conservative administration established the Iraqi Governing Council in July 2003, which included 25 members selected for their ethnic and religious origins; it was the most obvious sign of the US political separatist strategy. As a result of the new pol ... more

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Factual Debate and Discussion Programmes and Their Influence on Political Participation, Political Knowledge and Political Efficacy

Chris Larkin, Rhian Were

London: BBC Media Action (2013), 40 pp.

"The review found that there is evidence that exposure to dialogic formats can have an impact on political participation. It is clear, however, that the relationship between exposure to programming and manifest forms of participation cannot be studied in isolation to other important outcomes such as ... more

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How Do Political Debate Programmes Influence Political Participation? A Case Study from Nepal

Chris Larkin, Rhian Were

London: BBC Media Action (2013), 56 pp.

"This report focuses on the role of factual debate and discussion programming, defined for the purposes of this review as “dialogic formats”, on political participation, knowledge and efficacy [...] The review of the existing evidence base is followed by an in-depth look at the relationship betw ... more

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Design Research for Media Development: A Guide for Practitioners

Panthea Lee

New York: Reboot Design;Internews (2013), 125 pp.

"This is a hands-on reference guide for media development practitioners. It is based on principles and practices of design research that have been long used by the private sector, and grounded in the experience Reboot has gathered in designing and implementing international development projects arou ... more

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Evaluation of Media Cooperation Under the Danish Arab Partnership Programme (2005-12)

Rikke Ingrid Jensen, Alain Modot, Joachim Raffelberg, A. Sofie Jannusch, May Mahmoud Shalabieh

Copenhagen: DANIDA;Transtec (2013), 132 pp.

"According to the Danida website "The Danish Arab Partnership Programme (DAPP) is a long-term programme with the dual objectives of 1) supporting local reform processes in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA region) and 2) Establishing a basis for improved dialogue, understanding and cooperation ... more

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Adam Smith International;Springfield Centre (2013), 27 pp.

"The Nigerian media focuses little on business, and the business coverage that does exist is often dominated by macro-economic, large and international business issues, or is one-sided, representing only the views of government or the elite. The real issues that impact on Nigeria’s millions of sma ... more

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„Leben und Finanzen": Oikocredit fördert Grundbildung über Rundfunk in Kambodscha

Rundbrief Oikocredit Westdeutscher Förderkreis, issue 2 (2013), pp. 8-9

"Seit 2012 fördert Oikocredit in Kambodscha eine landesweite Radiosendung, die der ländlichen Bevölkerung Grundkenntnisse in Finanzfragen vermitteln und zugleich nachhaltige Unternehmenspraktiken fördern soll. Finanzielle Grundbildung ist für Oikocredit das entscheidende Instrument, um die Hera ... more

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UNICEF and Communication for Development: An Integrated Approach to Developing Capacity to Produce Communication for and with Children

Barbara Kolucki

In: The Routledge International Handbook of Children, Adolescents and Media

Dafna Lemish (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge (2013), pp. 433-441

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Citizens Rising: Independent Journalism and the Spread of Democracy

David Hoffman

New York: CUNY Journalism Press (2013), 244 pp.

"As founder of Internews, a leading non-profit organization dedicated to information access and independent media, David Hoffman has had a backstage pass to many of the seminal world political upheavals in recent years. In these pages we see how media have been used for good and bad—to trigger gen ... more

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Towards a Diagnostic Approach to Media in Fragile States: Examples from the Somali Territories

Nicole Stremlau

Media, War & Conflict, volume 6, issue 3 (2013), pp. 279-293

"Media interventions by international organizations and NGOs in conflict and post-conflict situations seek to develop and shape a media system to contribute to specific political and social ends. The analyses and assessments that inform these interventions are often based on an overview of the forma ... more

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From Counting Women to Making Women Count: Focusing on Women in Media Development Programs

Manisha Aryal, Craig LaMay

Washington, DC; Arcata, Calif.: Internews (2013), 28 pp.

"This paper argues that like other sectors, the media development sector needs to bring greater empirical rigor to its operations in order to bring about gender integration. It attempts to orient media development practitioners with both a historical and contemporary view of key policies, research a ... more

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Libya Media Transition: Heading to the Unknown

Fatima El-Issawi

London: Polis, London School of Economics, Department of Media and Communications (media@LSE) (2013), 74 pp.

"Libyan media’s deficiencies are vast and cover all facets of production. For one, the media industry’s decades-long isolation from the Arab and international markets poses a particular challenge to its reconstruction by comparison to the transitional media industries in Egypt and Tunisia. Media ... more

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The Media of Iraq Ten Years On: The Problems, the Progress, the Prospects

Abir Awad, Tim Eaton

London: BBC Media Action (2013), 35 pp.

"This briefing argues that the Iraqi media landscape of 2013 may not be the free, plural and professional fourth estate that many in the West had envisaged in 2003 but that it has real strengths – as well as weaknesses – which reflect the reality and complexity of modern Iraq. The seismic shift ... more

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UN Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity: Implementation Strategy 2013-2014

Paris: UNESCO (2013), 31 pp.

"This document provides the United Nations Implementation Strategy 2013-2014 of the UN Plan of Action on The Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity (hereafter referred to as the UN Plan). In addition to the Strategy, there is a detailed Work-Plan to put the Strategy into place." (Introducti ... more

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