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Well Informed - Acting Responsibly: The Global Media Programme of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

Sankt Augustin; Berlin: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2011), 42 pp.

"Since the beginning of the 1970s, the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung has taken a holistic approach to its support of the media in its international and European cooperation efforts. What started as individual training projects for senior journalists and the support of communications studies in Latin Amer ... more

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A Draft Discussion Paper: International Support to Media Development. Context, Evidence, Challenges and Possible Strategic Principles

Paris: OECD (2011), 12 pp.

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Medienentwicklungszusammenarbeit und Journalismus: Theoretische Konzeption und empirische Implikationen im 21. Jahrhundert

Julian Mertens

Dortmund: Universität Dortmund, Fakultät für Kulturwissenschaften, Diplomarbeit (2011), v, 107 pp.

"Diese Arbeit skizziert Ansätze für eine holistische Theorie der Medienentwicklungszusammenarbeit, kurz MEZ. Sie geht der Frage nach, wie sich die MEZ beschreiben lässt und in welchen Zusammenhängen sie gesehen werden muss. Forschung und Praxis haben dies bislang weitgehend versäumt, sodass unk ... more

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Rethinking Media Development

Mark Nelson, Tara Susman-Peña

Arcata, Calif.; Washington, DC: Internews; World Bank Institute (2011), 26 pp.

"The international development community needs to spend less time training journalists and more time on efforts to build country level leadership for a strong and independent media as a key institution of development. This means longer-term programs, facilitating carefully planned and rigorous appro ... more

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Developing Independent Media as an Institution of Accountable Governance: A How-To Guide
Key Guides

Shanthi Kalathil

Washington, DC: World Bank, Communication for Governance and Accountability Program (CommGAP) (2011), xi, 81 pp.

"This handbook is designed for those who may be interested in supporting media development programs, but are unclear about the whys, hows, and whens. It introduces the fundamentals of media development, provide ways to conceptualize and analyze the sector, and helps guide programming based on politi ... 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.

"Particularly as journalism transitions to new digital, mobile, and Internet formats, Central and Eastern European countries need to experiment with new business and usage models and find strong advocates for independent media. Instead, the current economic, political and social momentum is pushing ... journalists toward sensationalized and partisan tabloid content that does little to earn respect for accountability journalism or engage citizens about important issues. Some nationalistic governments are seeking to co-opt media independence in all of its forms. Some of the best independent journalists are being driven to work for quixotic websites with little audience and no money. Media ownership is a paramount issue in the region, especially in Romania, where five oligarchs hold sway, with little interest in good journalism, and in Latvia, where the one strong daily paper has been sold, after 20 good years, to a politically ambitious local businessman. A pattern has developed in the region: The international media investors such as Rupert Murdoch and Ronald Lauder, who developed the new marketplace for private media after communism fell, are selling out to local entrepreneurs who are interested in harvesting the political potential of these now-established media venues. European Union (EU) accession prompted a flurry of press freedom laws that remain on the books in most of these countries but are not workable without constant vigilance and activism. Organizations like the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union, the Latvian Open Society Institute, and the Romanian Center for Independent Journalism are holding their fingers in the dike but are not getting much help from either EU or other Western media developers, who are triaging their aid, moving to the hot zones in the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Africa. Public broadcasters, buffeted by political pressure and tabloid competition from private channels, are in a downward spiral, with declining audiences and budgets. Some scholars question their survival, but others hope that digitizing their channels will breathe new life into public media. On the bright side, each country studied has pluralistic media options, and continues to produce investigative journalists of fierce integrity and great skill. Gazeta Wyborcza in Poland remains a strong newspaper and website, with quality journalism and respect throughout the region, even if Polish public television has become a tabloid mess. The Czech Republic still has some effective news organizations and an independent public television news division. Unlike during Communist times, or the still frozen autocracies to the East, journalists in Central and Eastern Europe are able to stay alive and out of jail while uncovering information and publishing it to hold the powerful accountable, even if it is only on a niche website to an elite audience. Such Web-based news organizations, like Latvia’s Ir.lv, the Czech Republic’s Aktuálně.cz, and Hungary’s, www.hirszerzo.hu and oknyomozó.hu, are worth watching. Finally, it is clear that the media developers contributed a lot, and learned a lot, but moved away from Central and Eastern Europe too soon. They should consider new initiatives both regionally and nationally, to support: investigative journalism projects with genuine public importance and ethical boundaries; journalism associations that stress professionalism and counteract the political elites’ dismissal of journalism’s value; media criticism publications that hold journalists, owners, and politicians accountable to the public; media literacy training, as well as a larger curriculum that stresses the rights and obligations of citizens in a democracy." (Executive summary, pages 6-7) more

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Media Modernisation in Kosovo: Intentions and Impacts of International Media Assistance in a Post-Conflict Society

Petra Sorge

Leipzig: Universität Leipzig, Institut für Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft, Master Thesis (Diplomarbeit) (2011), 153 pp.

"Nowhere in modern history has media assistance been as concentrated and large in scale as in the case of Kosovo, where under the auspices of the OSCE, different state and non-governmental actors have invested millions in the crisis-ridden media system. This thesis discusses the strategies for media ... more

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Communication for Development: Strengthening the Effectiveness of the United Nations
Deep Insights

Elizabeth McCall

New York: UNDP, Bureau for Development Policy (2011), ix, 127 pp.

This publication outlines four communication approaches used by United Nations organizations: (i) behaviour change communication; (ii) communication for social change; (iii) communication for advocacy; and (iv) strengthening an enabling media and communications environment. The second part provides ... more

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Topic Guide on Communication and Governance

Huma Haider, Claire McIoughlin, Zoë Scott

Birmingham; Washington, DC: Governance and Social Development Resource Centre (GSDRC), University of Birmingham; World Bank, Communication for Governance and Accountability Program (CommGAP), 2nd ed. (2011), 67 pp.

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Draft Summary Record of the Seminar on Trends in Support of Accountability: Media Assistance Today

In: Draft Summary Record of the 15th Govnet Meeting

DAC Network on Governance

Paris: OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) (2011), pp. 19-25

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Africa’s Evolving Infosystems: A Pathway to Security and Stability

Steven Livingston

Washington, DC: National Defense University Press (2011), iii, 57 pp.

"Linked by mobile telephony and supported by geographical information systems, civil society networks now have unprecedented opportunities to develop security-monitoring programs, provide information needed for effective health care, create banking services, and provide farmers with market informati ... more

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Reformen und Öffnung begleiten: Die internationale Arbeit der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in der Volksrepublik China

Bernd Reddies

In: Die Arbeit der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in der UdSSR/Russland und in der Volksrepublik China

Hans-Joachim Spanger, Bernd Reddies (eds.)

Bonn: J. H. W. Dietz Nachf. (2011), pp. 157-301

"Im Rahmen seiner Darstellung der Aktivitäten der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in China beschreibt der Autor in einem Unterkapitel (Seite 180-193) die Medienzusammenarbeit der FES in China zwischen 1980 und 1990." (commbox)

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Das heimliche Kellerkind: Eine Analyse des aktuellen Stands und der Notwendigkeit von Medienentwicklungszusammenarbeit in Brasilien

Mariella Trilling

Dortmund: Technische Universität Dortmund, Institut für Journalistik, Bachelor-Arbeit (2011), iii, 84 pp.

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Rethinking Communication for Development Policy: Some Considerations

Linje Manyozo

In: The Handbook of Global Media and Communication Policy

Robin Mansell, Marc Raboy (eds.)

Malden, Mass.: Wiley Blackwell (2011), pp. 319-335

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International Media Assistance and Aid Effectiveness: Conceptual Blindspots and Institutional Incentives

Abby Jones, Silvio Waisbord

[Washington, DC]: Paper prepared for presentation at American Political Science Association Conference (2010), 39 pp.

"This article analyzes how selected programs articulate broad media objectives with program goals and apply indicators to determine impact with the goal of understanding how media assistance goals are operationalized and measured, and how program goals are linked to broad objectives. Guided by the n ... more

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International Media Assistance: A Guide to the Literature

Christoph Dietz

Forum Medien und Entwicklung (fome); Catholic Media Council (CAMECO), preliminary ed. (2010), 31 pp.

"This guide aims to bring together the most relevant literature on media development cooperation, be it of practical or academic nature and regardless of its ideological background. Included were publications which: focus on media development, i.e. the development of an professional, independent and ... more

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Support Study Regarding Media and Development Programmes Currently in Africa Funded by European Donors: Final Report
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Jorgen Ringgaard, Milica Pesic, Moussa Sawadogo, Jean Ouedraogo

Soges; European Union (2010), 50 pp. + annexes

"As a follow up on the Media and Development Forum, which took place in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) on 11-13 September 2008, the European Commission initiated this study to map out the projects and programmes which European donors have in place to support media development in Africa [...] Some 240 co ... more

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Report on the AUC/EC Joint Informal Expert Meeting on Media and Development

Addis Ababa: African Union Commission; European Commission (2010), 51 pp.

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Afghan Media in 2010: Synthesis Report

Eric Davin, Philibert de Mercey, Carlotta Tincati, Kinga Komorowska, Arezo Malakooti, Sébastien Duhaut

Altai Consulting; USAID (2010), 178 pp.

"In 2004-2005, the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Office of Transition Initiatives commissioned Altai Consulting to conduct the first comprehensive media evaluation of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, looking at the impact of the Afghan media on opinions and behav ... iors three years after the beginning of the country’s reconstruction. The evaluation found, among other things: that Afghans were avid and sophisticated media users and that cultural barriers to media use were less significant than previously expected; that the radio played a predominant role throughout the country; and that media are instrumental in social progress and education. However, since publication of that report1, Afghanistan’s media sector has seen important changes. To inform future assistance from the international community to the Afghan media, it was deemed necessary to assess the current state of the Afghan media – by reflecting a full and accurate audience profile, to determine program preferences, to measure the impact of the Afghan media on local opinions and behaviors and to gauge Afghan expectations in terms of programming and messaging. A large-scale research project was thus planned and conducted from March to August 2010. This research included a deep probe into the media sector and the public’s behaviors and expectations. The methodology used to achieved this included a combination of: literature review; direct observations; key informant interviews with most relevant actors involved in the media sector; 6,648 close-ended interviews in more than 900 towns and villages of 106 districts, covering all 34 provinces of the country; an audience survey on more than 1,500 individuals run daily for a week; about 200 qualitative, open-ended interviews; and 10 community case studies. Such an effort guarantees that results presented here are fairly representative of the Afghan population at large. This document provides a comprehensive synthesis of data collected during the survey. A database of media actors, 16 priority district reports, 10 case study reports, a complete description of the methodology and the original datasets from the main quantitative research and the audience research are publicly available, allowing anyone interested to access more focused information as needed." (Introduction, page 8) more

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Review of Literature

Amelia Arsenault, Shawn Powers

Media Map Project; Internews; World Bank Institute (2010), 32 pp.

"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)

Developing Independent Media as an Institution of Accountable Governance: A How-To Guide Key Guides

Communication for Development: Strengthening the Effectiveness of the United Nations Deep Insights

Support Study Regarding Media and Development Programmes Currently in Africa Funded by European Donors: Final Report Deep Insights

Developing Independent Media as an Institution of Accountable Governance: A How-To Guide
Key Guides

Communication for Development: Strengthening the Effectiveness of the United Nations
Deep Insights

Support Study Regarding Media and Development Programmes Currently in Africa Funded by European Donors: Final Report
Deep Insights