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Community Media: A Good Practice Handbook
Paris: UNESCO (2011), 80 pp.
"This is a collection of case studies of good practice in community media, mainly from developing countries, and focusing especially on radio. The first section addresses the enabling environment for community media, with ten country case studies of good practice in media policies, regulations, fund
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Annual Report 2018/2019
Johannesburg: Media Development & Diversity Agency (MDDA) (2019), 136 pp.
Shifting the South African Media Diversity Debate from the Stick to the Carrot: Lessons from Scandinavia, Latin America and West Africa
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African Journalism Studies, volume 38, issue 1 (2017), pp. 66-84
"More than 20 years into democracy, the South African media landscape, although free and moderately pluralistic, still does not represent fairly the diversity of viewpoints held in the country. Yet, the South African media debate on transformation has been dominated by the ANC’s continued focus on
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Pluralism with Little Diversity: The South African Experience of Media Transformation
In: Media Pluralism and Diversity: Concepts, Risks and Global Trends
London: Palgrave Macmillan (2015), pp. 237-251
"This chapter explores the South African experience in attempting to achieve a more diverse and representative media that articulate the aspirations of the country, after decades of apartheid which skewed the media towards white people. South Africa has not developed a diversity measurement tool, su
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Impact of the Department of Communications’ Community Radio Support Programme: Report and Recommendations
Pygma Consulting (2011), 80 pp.
"The Department of Communications (“DoC”) Community Radio Support Programme (“CRSP”) was initiated in 1998 and includes a range of categories of support: Infrastructure rollout to provide technical equipment to stations; Signal distribution and upgrade; Programme production support on specif
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Annual Report 2009-2010
Media Development & Diversity Agency (MDDA) (2010), 146 pp.
The Challenge of Partnerships Between the State, Capital, and Civil Society: The Case of the Media Development and Diversity Agency in South Africa
Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, volume 14, issue 4 (2003), pp. 401-420
"Inspired by “extra-market” initiatives to ensure media diversity in social-democratic Northern Europe, the Media Development and Diversity Agency (MDDA) is a path-breaking attempt by a developing country to support the media needs of marginalized communities too poor to be of interest to advert
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The Media Development and Diversity Agency: Position Paper
Media Development & Diversity Agency (MDDA) (2002), 64 pp.
"Government has taken the bold step of setting up an independent agency that will address some of the problems of media development and diversity in South Africa. It is important to stress that the proposed Media Development and Diversity Agency (MDDA) will not interfere in the content of any newspa
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