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Independent Media and Free Flow of Information: An Evidence Gap Map Protocol
New Delhi: International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) (2021), 58 pp.
"This report presents the protocol for a systematic search to identify and map the evidence base of impact evaluations and systematic reviews of interventions that aim to promote an independent media as a democratic institution in low- and middle-income countries. The EGM was developed by 3ie, made
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"Big Changes Start Small": Stories of People Making a Difference. An Impact Report
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2020), 97 pp.
"DW Akademie collects and documents the impacts of its projects through a range of methods. There are three approaches that are currently standard in development cooperation: Applied studies, which enable new insights on impacts, impact-oriented monitoring performed with local partners in the course
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"Big changes start small": Geschichten von Menschen, die etwas bewegen. Ein Wirkungsbericht
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2020), 97 pp.
"Die DW Akademie sammelt und dokumentiert die Wirkungen ihrer Projekte auf verschiedenen Ebenen, mit verschiedenen Methoden. Dazu zählen zunächst drei Wege, die heute Standard in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit sind: erstens angewandte Studien, die neues Wissen über Wirkungen ermöglichen, zweiten
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Creating Change Through Digital Communities: How RNW Media's Digital Platforms Impact Young People's Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviour
Hilversum: RNW Media (2020), 34 pp.
"The Theories of Change for both Citizens’ Voice [a programme focusing on social cohesion and inclusive governance] and the SRHR programme (which includes Love Matters [delivering information and media on love, sex and relationships to 18-30-year-olds]) contain a key assumption that through provid
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Donor Aid and Private Investment: Their Interplay with Media Development
Sage Open, volume 10, issue 2 (2020), 12 pp.
"This review has shown that media assistance from donor sources enhanced the development of the African media generally especially after the Second World War, but the inability of outlets to sustain their operations financially usher them into the “operational survival phase” where private inves
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Foundation Funding and the Boundaries of Journalism
Journalism Studies, volume 20, issue 14 (2019), pp. 2034-2052
"Private foundations are an important source of funding for many news outlets. It has even been suggested that they may offer a partial solution to journalism’s economic crisis. Yet we do not know how foundation funding shapes journalistic practice. In this article, we show that foundation funding
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Foundation-Funded Journalism, Philanthrocapitalism and Tainted Donors
Journalism Studies, volume 20, issue 5 (2019), pp. 675-695
"Not-for-profit news organisations are increasingly funded by private foundations, supported by wealthy entrepreneurs. This raises a range of ethical dilemmas for journalists, which are particularly serious when their donors are alleged to have been involved in unethical or illegal activities. Altho
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Questioning the Role of Foreign Aid in Media System Research
In: The Palgrave Handbook of Media and Communication Research in Africa
Bruce Mutsvairo (ed.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), pp. 401-412
"While the internal dynamics or the role of the state has had a significant bearing on how media systems evolve and change, both internal and external factors have contributed to the type of media that exists in Malawi today. Although Hallin and Mancini did not include at length the role of external
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More Than Radio – a Community Asset: Social Return on Investment Analyses of Indigenous Broadcasting Services
Social Ventures Australia (SVA) (2017), 84 pp.
"There are over 120 Australian Government funded Indigenous Broadcasting Services (IBSs) operating in Australia, with further unfunded IBS transmission sites. They vary in size from very small remote services to large community radio broadcasting services, and together, they reach an estimated audie
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Can Mass Media Cause Change? A Randomised Control Trial Finds Out
BBC Media Action (2016)
"Can the mass media cause changes in an audience’s knowledge, attitudes and intention to practise behaviours? At BBC Media Action, we have just successfully conducted a randomised control trial (RCT) to investigate this chain of causality in a prime time health TV drama in Bangladesh." (Introducti
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Impact Assessment for Nonprofit News Projects & Their Funders
Media Impact Funders (2015), 19 pp.
"In the end, impact assessment comes down to a dialogue—about goals; how news informs, connects and engages communities; and how best to maintain journalistic integrity in the process. That’s why we’ve created this guide, which features both conceptual perspectives for foundations and nuts-and
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Funder Perspectives: Assessing Media Investments
Media Impact Funders (2015), 22 pp.
"Media funders are still looking at questions of media assessment through many different lenses. The survey results indicated that the two biggest challenges facing this field are lack of consensus about what constitutes “impact” (33%) and lack of clarity about methods/measures within the media
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Can We Measure Media Impact? Surveying the Field
Stanford Social Innovation Review, issue fall (2015), pp. 47-55
"More and more news outlets rely on philanthropic funding. With such funding come new questions about the effect that media content has on citizens and policymakers. Traditional metrics, most observers agree, are insufficient. But the value of alternative metrics is an open issue. Two scholars analy
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Evaluating the Impacts of Media Assistance: Problems and Principles
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
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TMF Success Stories
Dar es Salaam: Tanzania Media Fund (TMF) (2013), 13 pp.
"TMF wants to add fire to the demand of citizens for accountability – through a strong media that produces a large variety of high-quality stories about things that matter in the lives of Tanzanians. Therefore, TMF is interested in stories from grantees about how their media production changed som
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Making Media Development More Effective
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
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On Media Development: An Unorthodox Empirical View
Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2012), 26 slides
Media Assistance M&E and Democratization Measurement Characteristics in USAID Program Reporting Documents
Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri–Columbia, Master Thesis (2012), vi, 139 pp.
"This case study of USAID media assistance program reporting documents (n=68) looks at specific monitoring and evaluation characteristics as reported over a 20-year period and how reporting documents make the link to democratization. The analysis found that although M&E activity has improved as repo
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Overview Report: Measuring Media Development
Washington, DC: Internews;World Bank Institute (2011), 16 pp.
"The Media Map Project is investigating the relationships between media and development, and analyzing the impact of media development assistance in specific contexts. The project undertakes a three-pronged approach. Part 1, Quantifying Media is an extensive quantitative analysis of macro data, appl
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Cooperación internacional a medios de comunicación: Resultados de tres meta-evaluaciones
In: Políticas y legislación para la radio local en América Latina
Alfonso Gumucio Dagron; Karina Herrera Miller (eds.)
La Paz: Plural Editores (2010), pp. 179-189
"A pesar de que las inversiones externas en proyectos de medios han aumentado – con excepción de América Latina – hacen falta estudios que analicen el impacto de estas inversiones. A veces se han publicado evaluaciones de proyectos individuales, pero se careció de estudios que analizaran el c
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