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Mapping and analysis of ODA to media and the information environment
Deep Insights
Paris: OECD; OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) (2024), 101 pp.
"Laure-Hélène Piron (The Policy Practice Director) undertook an analysis of official development assistance to media and the information environment for the Governance Network of the OECD Development Assistance Committee which was published in June 2024. The report shows that the rhetoric of gover
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Media Training in Transition Countries: Perspectives of a Media Trainer
London; New York: Routledge (2022), xiv, 142 pp.
"Drawing on the author’s and other media trainers’ experiences over a 25-year period, this book provides important insights into tailoring training programs to specific regions and countries. Case studies describe training in radio and television management, broadcasting, and media sustainabilit
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Environmental Media Grantmaking: How Funders Are Tipping the Scales Toward Change
Philadelphia: Media Impact Funders (2020), 32 pp.
"This report—which complements MIF’s in-person and online convenings throughout the year—aims to highlight trends in environmental media grantmaking, impact studies and examples of promising media projects, and insights from funders in the space. This report focuses on U.S. funders who give in
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"Media funders are still looking at questions of media assessment through many different lenses. The survey results indicated that the two biggest challenges facing this field are lack of consensus about what constitutes “impact” (33%) and lack of clarity about methods/measures within the media
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Public Diplomacy in Afghanistan beyond the 2014 Transition: Lessons from the United States and the Netherlands
The Hague: Netherlands Institute of International Relations 'Clingendael' (2013), 25 pp.
"The end of the security transition process in Afghanistan in 2014 marks the need to rethink foreign public diplomacy efforts in the country. As Afghanistan is entering its ‘transformational decade’, there is a unique opportunity to disconnect public diplomacy from the military–security paradi
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U.S. Government Funding for Media: Trends and Strategies
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2013), 46 pp.
"U.S. government support for international media development is declining. Spending by the Department of State and USAID for media freedom and freedom of information programs has dropped 43.5 percent in the past five years–from $135 million in Fiscal Year 2008 to approximately $76.3 million in FY
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Media development, information operations, and the liberal order: Mapping US mass media policy and practice in the Afghan intervention, 2001-10
Toronto: York University, Master Thesis (2012), iv, 149 pp.
"Since 2001 the development and use of the nascent mass media environment has been an integral component to the US-led democratization of Afghanistan. This approach is embedded in a history of US-led liberal order building, in which liberal principles and democracy are deployed strategically as me
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Performance Evaluation Afghanistan Media Development and Empowerment Project (AMDEP)
Washington, DC: Checchi and Company Consulting; USAID (2012), iv, 103 pp.
"The purpose of this evaluation is to identify results and lessons learned from USAID’s Afghanistan Media Development and Empowerment Project (AMDEP). AMDEP was designed as a one-year project (later extended) that began on November 1, 2010. It built on eight years of previous USAID media activitie
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Empowering Independent Media: U.S. Efforts to Foster a Free Press and an Open Internet Around the World
Deep Insights
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA), 2nd ed. (2012), 149 pp.
"This report examines seven central areas of media development—funding, digital media, sustainability, media law, journalists' safety, journalism education, and monitoring and evaluation. It also delves in-depth into four areas deserving of greater attention: citizen journalism, investigative jour
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Continental Shift: New Trends in Private U.S. Funding for Media Development
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2011), 26 pp.
"This work is an update of the October 2009 CIMA report, Experimentation and Evolution in Private U.S. Funding of Media Development by the same author. The field of private sector funding of independent media abroad has continued to undergo a massive upheaval over the past two years. Both the 2008 r
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Towards a New Model: Media and Communication in Post-Conflict and Fragile States
Deep Insights
Washington, DC: World Bank, Communication for Governance and Accountability Program (CommGAP) (2008), 105 pp.
"There is very little undestanding of the role that communicartion processes play in the numerous starnds of post-conflict reconstruction, including peacebuilding, governance, and long-term development. This paper addressess this gap by distilling lessons learned from the media and communication str
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Democracy or Polyarchy? US-Funded Media Developments in Afghanistan and Iraq Post 9/11
Media, Culture & Society, volume 30, issue 1 (2008), pp. 109-130
"This paper has demonstrated that the benefits for the general Afghan and Iraqi public derived from the ‘promotion of independent media’ by institutions like the NED are questionable, especially for parties interested in encouraging more deliberative or participatory forms of democracy. Instead,
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Exporting Press Freedom: Economic and Editorial Dilemmas in International Media Assistance
Deep Insights
New Brunswick; London: Transaction Publishers (2007), 310 pp.
"Exporting Press Freedom examines the history and practice of media assistance, and argues that the dilemma of media independence and sustainability is best understood as an economic problem rather than one of poor editorial standards or lack of will. It includes profiles of news and public affairs
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U.S. Public and Private Funding of Independent Media Development Abroad
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2007), 28 pp.
"U.S. funding for international media development in 2006—public and private—exceeded $142 million; U.S. government funding totaled nearly $69 million; U.S. private sector funding totaled over $60 million; and Funding from government-supported nonprofit organizations—the National Endowment for
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"Aiding and training journalists and media managers, along with civil society groups, paid off in Georgia. The American and Western investment helped to generate the Rose Revolution, and resulted in a potentially more democratic, open and Western-leaning society. It was a comparatively economical, a
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Independent Media Development Abroad: Challenges Exist in Implementing U.S. Efforts and Measuring Results
Washington, DC: United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) (2005), 49 pp.
"The Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development obligated at least $40 million in fiscal year 2004 for the development of independent media, including activities such as journalism and business management training and support for legal and regulatory frameworks. About 60 p
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The Media Missionaries: American Support for Journalism Exellence and Press Freedom Around the Globe
Miami: Knight Foundation (2004), 136 pp.
"When the Communist barricades collapsed in 1989, hundreds of Americans rushed to Eastern Europe and the former Soviet republics to spread the gospel of democracy. Among them were some of America’s most altruistic journalists, who hoped to midwife a newly independent press. Since then, the U.S. go
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USAID's Media Assistance: Policy and Programmatic Lessons
Washington, DC: USAID, Bureau for Policy and Program Coordination (2004), xiv, 20 pp.
"1. USAID media assistance was effective in promoting and strengthening independent media [...] 2. Comprehensive training programs had multiplier effects on upgrading the professional skills of journalists and instilling the norms of free press. But they suffered from implementation problems [...] 3
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U.S. Media Assistance Programs in Serbia: July 1997 - June 2002
Washington, DC: USAID, Bureau for Policy and Program Coordination (2003), xiii, 33 pp.
"Serbian media assistance programs reflect two approaches to media development. Though they occasionally created friction, the differing approaches produced positive results. The goal of USAID’s Office of Transition Initiatives (USAID/OTI) was to fund programs and media outlets that could dissemin
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Media Assistance: Best Practices and Priorities. Report on a USAID Workshop
Washington, DC: USAID, Bureau for Policy and Program Coordination (2003), 17 pp.
"Determining that the time had come to derive lessons from past efforts, think afresh about media assistance, and perhaps add some new models - including approaches for Africa and Asia, where the cultural preconditions and economic prospects are quite different from those of Europe - USAID’s Burea
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