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Minutes from the International Partnership Meeting
Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS) (2010), 40 pp.
"This report provides an overview of the discussions and conclusions from the International Partnership Meeting in New York on 26 January 2010 organised by the Open Society Institute and International Media Support. At the meeting, 30 media support and press freedom organisations from across the wor
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"This report explores the origins of media development research, outlines existing empirical measurements of the impact of media development projects, and examines relevant theories about the relationship between media modernization and societal progress." (Page 1)
Agents of Change? How Western Media Assistance Impacts Journalists in Developing Countries
Singapore: Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association (2010), 34 pp.
"Despite the growing importance of media assistance, recent developments in this field have gone largely unnoticed by journalism and mass communication studies. Therefore, this paper will analyze the status quo of international media assistance and provide a literature review. Authors engage in theo
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One Size Does Not Fit All: Objectives and Priority Areas for Media Assistance in Different Societies
Deep Insights
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2009), 39 pp.
"The essential thesis of this paper is that the requirements and problems of the media sector differ substantially from country to country according to its political, social and economic conditions: in authoritarian states the scope and intensity of media assistance is quite limited, whereas democra
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Governance and the Media: A Survey of Policy Opinion
London: BBC World Service Trust (2009), 40 pp.
"In total, 23 people were interviewed for this report, a mix of those from different parts of the development and media communities, from differently located organisations, and from those based in different geographic locations. The bulk of the interviews were with development agencies - multilatera
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NGOs and 'modernization' and 'democratization' of Media
Global Media and Communication, volume 5, issue 1 (2009), pp. 9-33
"Western-supported media assistance in transition and developing countries has a long history. Building independent media, preferably through the nongovernmental sector, is seen as an important aspect of achieving mondernization and democratization. This article questions the idealized assumptions u
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Industrias culturales y cooperación iberoamericana en la era digital
Pensamiento Iberoamericano, issue 4 (2009), pp. 73-102
"Las Industrias Culturales (IC) aparecen hoy como el centro nuclear en donde se juega el destino de nuestras identidades, nuestros valores compartidos y la calidad de nuestras democracias. Es también, por eso mismo, el espacio fundamental para los intercambios interculturales, en donde se dirime el
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Appui au secteur des médias: Quel bilan pour quel avenir?
In: Réforme au Congo (RDC): attentes et désillusions
Paris; Tervuren: L'Harmattan; MRAC (2009), pp. 191-210
Media Literacy: Citizen Journalists
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2009), 26 pp.
"In environments where poor infrastructure, minimal access to technology, and small-scale economies impede the creation or sustainability of mainstream independent media, and in countries where repressive governments limit the ability of professional journalists to operate freely, citizen journalist
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Between Radicalisation and Democratisation in an Unfolding Conflict: Media in Pakistan
Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS) (2009), 54 pp.
"After nine years of military rule, Pakistan today finds itself in the second year of a challenging transition to democracy. Unlike previously unsuccessful transitions to democracy, this transition is characterised by the presence of a newly liberalised mass media. This can prove to be to be a cruci
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Throwing the Switch: Challenges in the Conversion to Digital Broadcasting
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2009), 34 pp.
Cultura y comunicación: Estado y prospectiva de la cooperación española con el resto de Iberoamérica, 1997-2007
Madrid: Fundación Alternativas; Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID) (2009), 224 pp.
"La investigación que se presenta en estas páginas tuvo un doble objetivo: por un lado, estudiar la cooperación española, bilateral y multilateral, con un seleccionado conjunto de países de iberoamericanos en materia de patrimonio y cultura clásica (artes plásticas, espectáculos en vivo) y d
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Media development in Afghanistan
Media Development, issue 1 (2009), pp. 39-44
"The international community entered Afghanistan in December 2001 to oust the Taliban. It promised reconstruction, development and democratisation. At the time, the trauma of 25 years of war had left civil society in Afghanistan shattered and the media had become mere tools in the hands of the dicta
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Ein Leuchtturm mit Stromschwankungen: Die Rolle der Medien bei der Entwicklung einer demokratischen Kultur
DED-Brief, issue 2 (2009), pp. 42-43
"In den vergangenen Jahren hat Ghana einen großen Sprung gemacht, was die Achtung der Pressefreiheit und der Menschenrechte betrifft. Aber eine grundlegende qualitative Verbesserung der Medienlandschaft würde beinhalten, dass sich die Journalisten ihrer verantwortungsvollen Rolle in einer Demokrat
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Challenges to U.S. Government Support for Media Development
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2009), 22 pp.
"Media play a pivotal role in U.S. foreign policy, but the two U.S. government bodies most directly involved in media development assistance - the State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) - face significant resour
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The Role of Mass Media in Local and Regional Economic Development (LRED)
Abuja: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) (2008), 21 pp.
"This paper has highlighted that the mass media can play an important, if not critical, role in both enhancing the flow of information and improving public-private dialogue in the local context. The paper therefore recommends explicitly incorporating media into the approaches of LRED. This means wor
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Communication for Empowerment in Mozambique: An Assessment of Communication and Media Needs at the Community Level
Oslo; South Orange, New Jersey: UNDP Oslo Governance Centre; Communication for Social Change Consortium (2008), 79 pp.
"Communication for Empowerment is an initiative which, in its global context, aims to enable average citizens including those from marginalised strata of society and those living in poverty to take informed decisions on their own lives, have access to channels that allow their voice to be heard and
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Informing Citizens: Opportunities for Media and Communications in the Pacific
In: South Pacific Islands Communication: Regional Perspectives, Local Issues
Singapur: Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre (AMIC) (2008), pp. 34-58
"The Pacific Media & Communications Facility (PMCF) was a three-year regional media governance project involving the 14 Pacific Island Forum countries. It was funded by the Australian government and commenced in May 2004. The report “Informing Citizens: Opportunities for media and communications i
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Donor Support for Media Development
In: Whose Voices? Media and Pluralism in the Context of Democratisation
Uppsala: Uppsala University, Collegium for Development Studies (2008), pp. 99-113
"This paper is a summary of a desk-review of donor policies, experiencies and evaluations in the realm of media support, which studied 30 of the major aid donors. It attempts to draw together the major lessons learned in terms of media support from a donor perspective." (Page 1)
