"This guide aims to bring together the most relevant literature on media development cooperation, be it of practical or academic nature and regardless of its ideological background. Included were publications which: focus on media development, i.e. the development of an professional, independent and sustainable media sector (and not on development communication, i.e. the use of media as communication channel for development issues); address explicitly the role of foreign assistance in media development; handle a clearly defined issue coherently; are based on various programmes or projects and not just on one isolated project experience; have been publicly available and have been published since 1990. From more than 600 reports, strategy papers and other writings on media development cooperation at the Catholic Media Council (www.cameco.org/library), the Communication Initiative (www.comminit.com/en/mediadev.html) and the Center for International Media Assistance (http://cima.ned.org) I identified 300 publications which met these criteria and which are included in this literature guide. To enhance the practical use of this publication, in addition I selected 30 “Top Titles” which may be considered key publications in terms of their comprehensiveness, practical usefulness or academic relevance." (Page 1)