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The Influence of News Coverage on Humanitarian Aid: The Bureaucrats’ Perspective
Journalism Studies, volume 23, issue 2 (2022), pp. 167-186
"We examine if and how news coverage influences governments’ humanitarian aid allocations, from the perspective of the senior bureaucrats involved in such decision-making. Using rare in-depth interviews with 30 directors and senior policymakers in 16 of the world’s largest donor countries, we fo
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Democratic Openings and Country Visibility: Media Attention and the Allocation of US Democracy Aid, 1975-2010
Foreign Policy Analysis, volume 16, issue 3 (2020), pp. 373-396
"Late in the twentieth century, the United States embraced democracy promotion as a foreign policy priority, a central component of which involved allocating democracy aid to governments, political parties, and nongovernmental organizations around the world to support and encourage democratization.
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Front Pages and Frontlines: How the News Cycle Impacted Humanitarian Assistance in Liberia and the Democratic Republic of Congo
In: The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action
Robin Andersen; Robin Purnaka L. de Silva (eds.)
London: Routledge (2017), pp. 200-210
"Heather Bourbeau finds that in a crisis, media professionals and humanitarian aid providers negotiate a delicate balance between thorough and consistent coverage, and coverage that sensationalizes a crisis and leads to hysteria, misery, and fatigue. In "F" Bourbeau compares the media coverage of th
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From Pictures to Policy: How Does Humanitarian Reporting Have an Influence?
In: Humanitarianism, Communications and Change. Global Crises and the Media
Simon Cottle; Glenda. Cooper (eds.)
Peter Lang (2015), pp. 153-166
"In contrast to the contemporary media perception the government aid provided to Ethiopia was pretty much existing money that was reconfigured and, despite appearances, there was no ‘new money’. The UK Government rejected any longer term ongoing engagement and was just concerned with short-term
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The Celebritization of Human Trafficking
Boston: New Englanf Law (2013), 38 pp.
"Celebrities now regularly engage with human trafficking policy and practice. A “sexy” topic, human trafficking is not only susceptible to alluring, fetishistic, and voyeuristic narratives, but plays into the celebrity-as-rescuer-of-the-victim ideal that receives a huge amount of attention from
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Reporting Disasters: Famine, Aid, Politics and the Media
London: Hurst (2013), x, 236 pp.
"The media reporting of the Ethiopian Famine in 1984-5 was an iconic news event. It is widely believed to have had an unprecedented impact, challenging perceptions of Africa and mobilising public opinion and philanthropic action in a dramatic new way. The contemporary international configuration of
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Public Sentinel: News Media and Governance Reform
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Washington, DC: World Bank (2010), xxi, 420 pp.
"This book highlights the importance of the news media as watchdogs, agenda setters and gatekeepers for the quality of democratic deliberation in the public sphere. At the same time, it theorizes that the capacity of journalists and media systems to fulfill these roles depends on the broader context
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The Media and the Rwanda Genocide
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Kofi Annan (statement)
London; Kampala; Ottawa: Pluto Press;Fountain Publishers;International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2007), xvi, 463 pp.
"This book examines the crucial role the media played in the 1994 Rwanda genocide, bringing together local reporters and commentators from Rwanda, Western journalists, and media theorists. Part One (eight articles) describes and analyzes "Hate Media in Rwanda", mainly, but not exclusively, focusing
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Media Coverage and Foreign Assistance: The Effects of US Media Coverage on the Distribution of US Official Development Assistance (ODA) to Recipient Countries
Georgetown Public Policy Institute (2005), 45 pp.
Media, Bureaucracies and Foreign Aid: A Comparative Analysis of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, France and Japan
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2004), ix, 179 pp.
"In many ways, this book is a simple and straightforward product of social science research. A conceptual expectation was created through the integration and extension of existing theory and research findings. The responsiveness argument presented in chapter 2 lead to the expectation that aid bureau
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Forgotten Humanitarian Crises: Conference on the Role of the Media, Decision-Makers and Humanitarian Agencies, Copenhagen, 23 Oktober 2002
Copenhagen: Danish Refugee Council (DRC) (2002), 29, viii pp.
