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Content Analysis: Can Shared Indicators Improve Monitoring and Evaluation?

Erich Sommerfeldt

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2012), 24 pp.

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Empowering Independent Media: U.S. Efforts to Foster a Free Press and an Open Internet Around the World
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Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA), 2nd ed. (2012), 149 pp.

"This report examines seven central areas of media development—funding, digital media, sustainability, media law, journalists' safety, journalism education, and monitoring and evaluation. It also delves in-depth into four areas deserving of greater attention: citizen journalism, investigative jour ... more

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Bigger Cities, Smaller Screens: Urbanization, Mobile Phones, and Digital Media Trends in Africa

Adam Clayton Powell

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2012), 36 pp.

"As Africa becomes increasingly urban, the reach and use of mobile telephones and other portable digital devices inevitably are becoming a mass medium. This shift creates new opportunities for existing broadcasters and publishers. And it creates new opportunities for a much larger number of new inde ... more

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Making Media Development More Effective

Tara Susman-Peña

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2012), 42 pp.

"Despite years of stock taking, donors to media development still have a number of blind spots that prevent their interventions from being more effective. In particular, media development stakeholders could improve their efforts by applying aid effectiveness principles to their practice. When examin ... more

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The Video Revolution

Jane Sasseen

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2012), 43 pp.

"Citizen journalists across the globe are using blogs, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and other new tools to spread articles, blog posts, videos, and photos of news happening in their countries. The new video journalists use these broader tools as well, taking full advantage of social media to share th ... more

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Working in Concert: Coordination and Collaboration in International Media Development

Walter Dean

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2012), 27 pp.

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Calling the Shots: How Ownership Structures Affect the Independence of News Media

Michelle J. Foster

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2012), 35 pp.

"At an international level, the media development community should advocate for standards governing media cross-ownership limitations, best practices in media licensing, and the licensing of the broadcast spectrum. States should adopt net neutrality and support increased uncensored access to social ... more

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On Media Development: An Unorthodox Empirical View

Daniel Kaufmann

Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2012), 26 slides

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Covering Elections: The Challenges of Training the Watchdogs

Rosemary Armao

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2012), 36 pp.

"Covering elections is not just coverage of one “grand event,” and training must reflect that. Short-term training just in advance of election day has been mostly discounted as ineffective. More must be done to cast elections as part of a critical on-going political process and to equip journali ... more

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Challenges for Independent News Media in Pakistan

Sherry Ricchiardi

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2012), 47 pp.

"For two years running, Pakistan has been ranked by international media monitors as the most dangerous place on earth for journalists. Media workers have been kidnapped, tortured, and beaten to death for delving into the nation’s potent military apparatus and spy agencies. Bodies have been found w ... more

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A Pilot Study for GFMD’s Media Development Toolkit: Testing Standards, Strengthening Professionalism. An Assessment of Ghana’s Media Landscape

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA); IREX; Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD) (2012), 49 pp.

"The study did not aim to carry out new surveys or collect information that was not already publicly available. Since the toolkit is aimed at providing media development organizations with a tool to assess media landscapes without having to carry out extensive new research, the Ghana study worked on ... more

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The Medium Versus the Message: U.S. Government Funding for Media in an Age of Disruption

Anne Nelson

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2012), 28 pp.

"The new priorities include: 1. Expanding the access in developing countries to digital platforms. 2. Devising and promoting uses for new platforms (especially mobile) for functions that occupy a new, poorly defined space between traditional journalism and other modes of information. 3. Contesting o ... more

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Social Media in the Arab World: Leading Up to the Uprisings of 2011

Jeffrey Ghannam

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2011), 39 pp.

"Key Findings: About 17 million people in the Arab region are using Facebook, available in Arabic, with 5 million in Egypt alone, and demand is expected to grow on micro-blogging sites. Twitter announced it will launch its Arabic interface in 2011; Arab governments are developing, at varying rates, ... more

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Funding Free Expression: Perceptions and Reality in a Changing Landscape

Anne Nelson

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2011), 25 pp.

"Seven key findings emerged from this research: 1. Overall donor funding for free expression work has increased–not decreased–over the past three to five years [...] 2. Under current conditions, it is impossible to conclusively measure the amount of free expression funding. Donors themselves hav ... more

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Media and the Law: An Overview of Legal Issues and Challenges

Peter Noorlander

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2011), 26 pp.

"This report provides an overview of the different kinds of laws that affect the media and explains how they are used in many countries to influence the operations of news outlets and the information they offer. It focuses on restrictive laws more than on those of the enabling and empowering variety ... more

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Caught in the Middle: Central and Eastern European Journalism at a Crossroads

Ellen Hume

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2011), 93 pp.

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News on the Go: How Mobile Devices Are Changing the World’s Information Ecosystem

Dale Peskin

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2011), 26 pp.

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Confronting the News: The State of Independent Media in Latin America

Douglas Farah

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2011), 38 pp.

"Over time the governments of Nicaragua, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Ecuador have shown a growing willingness to shrug off even the harshest criticism from usually friendly forums such as the OAS and UNESCO. As the media is forced into silence and the independence of the judiciary is weakened, there are ... more

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Voices from Villages: Community Radio in the Developing World

Mary Myers

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2011), 52 pp.

"Since the 1990s community radio has mushroomed throughout the developing world. In fact it has grown faster than either state or commercial radio. Across Africa, community radio grew, on average, by a significant 1,386 percent between 2000 and 2006. Asia and Latin America have also seen remarkable ... community radio booms. This has been due mainly to the widespread liberalization of the airwaves, the falling costs of the necessary technology, and a thirst for alternatives to government-controlled and commercial media. International aid agencies are showing ever greater interest in community media’s ability to inform and empower. More governments are acknowledging the contribution of community media to education, public health, and economic development and are creating policy and legal frameworks to enable its expansion. Nevertheless, community radio still faces repression in many countries. This report explores the reasons for this expansion and the constraints and challenges community radio still faces. It also looks at community radio’s record in terms of development and examines its real achievements against its ideals. For purposes of this report, community radio is defined as radio by and for the community, be it a physical community or a community of interest, with an emphasis on community ownership and management on a not-for-profit basis. Wider and more hybrid definitions are acknowledged and explored, and community radio’s differences from vernacular, fundamentalist, and hate radio are clarified. The report also points out where community radio is most prevalent in the developing world and the reasons for this, looking especially at the kind of pro-freedom policies that allow it to thrive and what positive change is possible where community radio works well. A short case study takes a more detailed look at India, where community radio was only recently allowed. The major challenge for community radio continues to be economic survival and sustainability beyond donor and NGO support. Various models are explored, including some new initiatives that emphasize a more business-oriented approach than has been the case in the past. Another big challenge is the right of community radio to exist at all. The record of the support given by the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC, in the French acronym) is examined in light of these continuing struggles, as well as the work of national-level platforms also engaged in advocacy." (Executive summary, page 5) more

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Media Codes of Ethics: The Difficulty of Defining Standards

Eugene L. Meyer

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2011), 48 pp.

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