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Ethical Principles for Broadcasters: Views, Tips and References

Kuala Lumpur: Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD); Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2009), 116 pp.

"This book can only give an overview on practiced media ethics by making available memorable experiences of broadcasters in their daily work. Furthermore it provides an exchange of different views and ideas of broadcasters and offers useful links and further suggestions to get a closer look into how ... more

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The Media in South-East Europe: A Comparative Media Law and Policy Study

Beate Martin, Alexander Scheuer, Christian Bron (eds.)

Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2009), 159 pp.

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Media Courts of Honour: Self-Regulatory Councils in Southern Africa and Elsewhere
Deep Insights

Franz Krüger

Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2009), 50 pp.

"What emerges from the discussion of the Southern African media councils is a picture of relatively new institutions, struggling to find their place in a changing, difficult media and political terrain. They share many common challenges, as they contend with hostile governments, poor journalistic pr ... more

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Media and Elections in the SADC Region: Protocols and Policies

Libby Lloyd

Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2009), 45 pp.

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Radiomost 100.5 FM: Pioneer of Community Radio in Kyrgyzstan

Gulmira Osmonova, Bettina Ruigies

Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2009), 134 pp.

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Self-Regulation of the Media in the SADC Region: Experiences with Media Councils in Southern Africa

Hendrik Bussiek

Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2009), 8, 9 pp.

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African Media Barometer: Namibia 2009

Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES); Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) (2009), 74 pp.

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Africa’s Media: Between Professional Ethics and Cultural Belonging

Francis Nyamnjoh

Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2009), 25 pp.

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African Media Barometer: Botswana 2009

Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES); Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) (2009), 70 pp.

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An Asia-Pacific Approach to Public Service Broadcasting: A Guidebook

José Maria G. Carlos (ed.)

Kuala Lumpur: Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD); Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2009), xiv, 165 pp.

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African Media Barometer: Moçambique 2009

Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES); Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) (2009), 56 pp., 64 pp.

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Beyond Broadcasting: The Future of State-Owned Broadcasters in Southern Africa

Guy Berger

Fackson Banda; Jane Duncan; Rashweat Mukundu; Zenaida Machado (contrib.)

Grahamstown: Highway Africa, School of Journalism & Media Studies, Rhodes University; Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2009), 65 pp.

"Digital communications technology does many new things. Its spread means that it is no longer a case of a tiny minority of professionals and politicians having a monopoly on mass communication. Implicit in the observations of this report, is the recognition that - amongst other things - digitisatio ... n also disrupts old boundaries between inter-personal and mass communication. What used to be the subject of, or product of, communication between a few individuals, can increasingly be put into the public sphere. Much of this content remains personal in quality, despite it being public in availability. But there is also much that is of public interest. In some ways, this therefore threatens those institutions supposed to be specialising in public interest information. In other ways, it can help them not only reinforce this mission, but to also take a step towards expanding their role into becoming wider public interest content and commun-ications agencies. They can, in short, be the motive force that pulls personal conversations into focussing on journalism that is of common public interest. That image of leading the transformation of mass communication is, however, just one of the scenarios outlined in this report. The others point to lesser roles, even including extinction. It should be noted that scenarios are not predictions of the future, but attempts to highlight a range of possible options. They help guide action in one or other direction. The complication is that digitisation and all that comes with it can deal a surprise to even the best-considered scenario possibilities. Who would have thought that a search engine company (Google) could become such an effective player in the advertising arena? Or that newspaper newsrooms would start hiring video-capable staffers, or that some cell-phone companies would move into distributing content? Could anyone have guessed that a company like Twitter could attract and burn millions of dollars of investment without even a proper business plan about how it intends to make money? The digital revolution, if it is to succeed, needs to have top quality cadres in the newsrooms. In the face of these kinds of developments, it is tempting to throw up one’s hands and take a come-what-may approach. That’s preferable to the illusion of controlling and managing the process. At the same time, between these two extremes of paralysis and over-planning, there is a broad direction that can be identified and pursued. We may not know exactly where we are going, but - as this Report seeks to do - we can look at where we are and what’s immediately ahead. More fundamentally, however, there’s worth in remembering from whence we come. In other words, while looking at the present and near-present, and keeping an eye on what future scenarios we can imagine, we can hold onto our values. In the context of public broadcasting, these values are - in a nutshell - to focus mass communications on deepening democracy and development. These public interest values remain all the more valid in a time when the historical informational “service” model is being expanded to also function as a public interest communicational mode. Keeping these ideals aloft helps state-owned broadcasters steer a course between delivering government-interest and commercial-interest content. They help to define the meaning of universal access in the face of financial pressures and socio-economic divides. They empower people to see the big picture and to bring concerted action to bear on it. In sum, they help us reinvent “public service broadcasting” in a fashion appropriate to its contemporary possibilities. Roll on digitisation in Southern Africa - and the transformation of at least some state-owned broadcasters to become leaders in this process." ("Summing up", page 53-54) more

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TV digital: Manual para el uso de legisladores

Lorena Donoso (ed.)

Santiago de Chile: Observatorio de Medios Fucatel; Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2008), 106 pp.

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Free Markets Free Media? Reflections on the Political Economy of the Press in Asia

Cherian George (ed.)

Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC); Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University (NTU); Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2008), 164 pp.

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Media Democracy

Sajjad Malik

Islamabad: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES); Society for Alternative Media and Research (SAMAR) (2008), 18 pp.

"Media democracy is a concept as well as an advocacy movement aiming at making the mainstream media more plural, and reflective of a broad set of ideas and opinions than churning out and propagating just routine socio-politico-economic news stories and articles in the name of news, information and e ... more

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Radio Baba Gurgur: A Field-Report on Community Broadcasting in Kirkuk (March 2007)

Naser Hasan

In: Shahadat: Witnessing Iraq's Transformation After 2003

Anja Wollenberg, Klaas Glenewinkel (eds.)

Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2007), pp. 86-91

"The work force at Radio Baba Gurgur includes a mixture of four Iraqi ethnicities: Kurds, Turkmens, Arabs and Chaldean-Assyrians. Because our programs aim at targeting all listeners in our multifaceted city, we broadcast in all of Kirkuk’s different languages. Our policy is not to increase the lin ... more