"Chayka.lv is an independent media outlet established in 2019 that provides free, high-quality, politically neutral information to the Russian-speaking community of the Latvian city of Daugavpils, including news, entertainment, human-interest and other factual content. It started as pages on the Fac
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ebook and OK.ru social media platforms, then an online news portal, before expanding to other platforms including Instagram, VK, Telegram, and YouTube. It has been supported to develop its journalistic capacity, expand its audience and progress towards financial sustainability by Internews’ project Supporting Independent Media in the Baltics Action (SIMBA), which was funded by the US Department of Human Rights and Labor between 2019 and 2022. In August 2021, Internews commissioned the Market Research Center to conduct a detailed research study into Chayka.lv’s impact on the media landscape of Daugavpils. This report is the product of that study, and highlights how Chayka.lv was the city’s third most popular Russian-language media outlet at the time of writing, that survey respondent’s viewed Chayka.lv as the only politically neutral source of information in Daugavpils, that it has a significant female following and that Internews’ support correlates with growth and expansion." (Publisher description)
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"In 2012 the opportunity for ordinary Afghans to communicate with political authorities or hold them to account was extremely limited. To help address this BBC Media Action worked with state broadcaster Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA) and the BBC Afghan Service to co-produce the TV and radio nati
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onal debate programme Open Jirga (Open Assembly). It also supported the Afghan Education Production Organization (AEPO) to incorporate governance issues into its longstanding radio drama New Home, New Life. The project aimed to provide a platform for people to question their leaders and which built the profile and participation of women in public dialogue and debate. It also sought to raise the production skills and standards of RTA staff to produce high-quality coverage on key governance issues. Findings showed that BBC Media Action’s training and mentoring of RTA was largely successful. It was also found that more than 84% of those that tuned into Open Jirga and/or New Home, New Life reported that the programmes had increased their knowledge of key governance issues. However, research revealed that satisfaction with panellists’ responses was mixed. Some audiences and experts felt that Open Jirga could have done more to follow up to ensure that action was taken and demonstrate where power holders were failing in their duties. Encouragingly however it was found that both programmes did have a positive impact on attitudes regarding women’s right to participate and their confidence to take action." (BBC Media Action website)
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"As it seeks to win the hearts and minds of citizens in the Muslim world, the United States has poured millions of dollars into local television and radio programming, hoping to generate pro-American currents on Middle Eastern airwaves. However, as this fascinating new book shows, the Middle Eastern
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media producers who rely on these funds are hardly puppets on an American string, but instead contribute their own political and creative agendas while working within U.S. restrictions. The Other Air Force gives readers a unique inside look at television and radio production in Afghanistan and the Palestinian territories, from the isolated villages of the Afghan Panjshir Valley to the congested streets of Ramallah. Communications scholar Matt Sienkiewicz explores how the U.S. takes a “soft-psy” approach to its media efforts combining “soft” methods of encouraging entertainment programming, such as adaptations of The Voice and The Apprentice with more militaristic “psy-ops” approaches to information control. Drawing from years of field research and interviews with everyone from millionaire executives to underpaid but ever resourceful cameramen, Sienkiewicz considers the perspectives of the Afghan and Palestinian media workers trying to forge viable broadcasting businesses without straying outside American-set boundaries for acceptable content." (Publisher description)
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"The World Bank should take a more active role in policy and regulatory activities targeting the broadcasting sector because: broadcasting can have a significant part to play in the fight to reduce global poverty; convergence of information and communications technologies (ICT) is allowing broadcast
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services to be provided over telecommunications networks and internet services to use broadcast systems; the broadcast component of the convergent ICT sector is a significant economic sector; reform of the broadcast sector can have a significant development impact; few other international development players are active in the broadcast reform arena; traditional reticence to address a sector that raises political sensitivities appears overblown. The Bank Group’s potential activities in the sector might include: basic reform, involving the opening up of the broadcast sector to private and community involvement, and deconcentrating private media ownership; convergence regulation, involving the harmonization and integration of regulations covering broadcast and telecommunications infrastructure; support for community radio stations to improve access for the poor to the tools of information and communications technologies; pilot projects involving digital television to assess the potential of broadcasting as a tool to widen access to the internet." (Executive summary, page ix)
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"Realizing the immense power of the electronic media, FES started to initiate and support the development of national broadcasting systems and regional exchange networks some 20 years ago. In cooperation with Eurovision, the mother of all television exchange systems, FES helped to establish Asiavisi
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on, Arabvision and Afrovision, thus linking the continents via a global network. In 1987, the Caribbean Broadcasting Union (CBU) also asked for assistance. As usual, the Lost Paradise between North and South America had not been high on the agenda. And there was not much hope that these tiny rocks in the Caribbean Sea, scattered over an area the size of Western Europe from the North Cape to Gibraltar, could ever be linked via regional television and included in the global exchange. Still we tried, and we succeeded. This is the story of a very special effort in development aid: "Television in Paradise". (Prologue)
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"Diese Studie präsentiert eine empirische Analyse des lokalen Bildungsfernsehsystems in der sudanesischen Provinz Gezira, das in den siebziger Jahren mit deutscher Entwicklungshilfe eingeführt und gefördert wurde [...] Auf der Grundlage seiner Erkenntnisse aus dem Sudan argumentiert der Autor, da
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ss das Potenzial des Fernsehens zur Förderung und Beschleunigung der ländlichen Entwicklung in den am wenigsten entwickelten Ländern wahrscheinlich geringer ist als allgemein angenommen. Der Import komplexer und teurer westlicher Fernsehtechnik scheint daher keine erfolgversprechende Strategie zur Lösung der Kommunikationsprobleme der am wenigsten entwickelten Länder zu sein. Das sudanesische Beispiel zeigt außerdem, dass die verfrühte Einführung und Verbreitung des Fernsehens eine Reihe negativer Folgen haben kann, da sie knappe Ressourcen aus anderen Bereichen wie der Presse und dem Bildungssystem abzieht und zu einer wachsenden technischen und finanziellen Abhängigkeit von ausländischen Geberinstitutionen und dem Weltmarkt für Fernsehhard- und -software führen kann.“ (Zusammenfassung, Seite 216)
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"The difficulties, shortcomings and failures of experimental projects are as significant as their successes. It is in this open-minded spirit that we have traced the history of the experience in Senegal and sought to evaluate its impact. Throughout the foregoing pages, attention has been drawn to si
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gnificant lessons. It may, however, be useful to summarize once more certain principal conclusions. The application of radio and television to adult education does not grow organically out of existing structures and practices. Neither the media, when in fact they do exist, nor the institutions and organizations concerned with adult education are necessarily predisposed to a joint comprehensive effort. The condition of success is the solution of political, administrative and financial problems, the more rational use of existing facilities and staff, the provision of new resources in funds, hardware and personnel, and the elaboration of a methodology adapted to the needs and aims of adult education. A great deal of time, money and personal effort had to be spent on this preparatory phase, and it was only thanks to political support by the Head of State, to collaboration between the media and the interested agencies, and also the active participation of the target audience itself, that valid results could be obtained. The second set of conclusions concerns the material resources, finance and time required for such an undertaking. Unfortunately, it was not possible to obtain a clearcut economic evaluation of the entire project, in particular of its television component, but certain lessons are clear: A project of this kind should be neither underfinanced nor endowed with excessive resources. Lack of facilities and personnel made it impossible to pursue the numerous initial objectives and to use fully the various audio-visual media. Regrettably, the teaching of literacy had to be abandoned owing to lack of resources." (Conclusion, page 52)
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"BBC proposal to start courses for overseas producers — The courses for producers and technicians offered to people from overseas by the Thomson Foundation — Aid to the developing countries in the field of TV from the Australian Broadcasting Commission." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh
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: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 48, topic code 422)
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"Considérations générales — Choix du système du réseau de diffusion — Centres de production de programmes TV — Réception des programmes — Assistance technique et formation du personnel. [Document de travail, 9 nov. 1962. Contribution à: La Conférence des Nations Unies sur l'Applicati
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on de la Science et de la Technique dans l'Intérêt des Régions peu Développées, Genève, dú 4 au 20 février 1963. E/Conf. 39/L/72. Point de l'ordre du jour: 2.2.1]" (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 871, topic code 431)
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"La conception et les réalisations du centre pour le film et la TV Outremer." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 929, topic code 411)