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“Priorities Were Chosen by Donors”: A Critical Review of International Media Assistance in Afghanistan (2001-2021)
Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 15, issue 1 (2025), 23 pp.
"This study presents findings from research on international media development strate-gies and practices in Afghanistan between 2001 and 2021. Based on qualitative interviews with 35 Afghan journalists in Afghanistan, the research offers a retroactive assessment of key patterns in International Medi
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How “Insiders and Outsiders” Perceive Media Development Work: Reflections on Their Relationship and Cooperation
Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 12, issue 1 (2022), 18 pp.
"This article tries to show that media development work could be based less on the idea of cooperation, but rather be perceived as a dominance of foreign funding countries and their politics. Taking this view, the donor organisations’ perceived dominance in controlling the entire process and meeti
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Manufacturing the Liberal Media Model Through Developmentality in Malawi
In: Media, Development and Democracy
Heloisa Pait; Juliana Laet (eds.)
Bingley: Emerald Publishing (2021), pp. 23-44
"When questioning the relationship between media, development, and democracy, especially in the ill-defined “Global South,” it’s important to go beyond the commonly held meta-narratives that frame these concepts as common sense. In a quest to investigate alternative characterizations of these
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Google, the Media Patron: How the Digital Giant Ensnares Journalism
Frankfurt am Main: Otto Brenner Stiftung (2020), 124 pp.
"The study shows that the data giant’s rise to become a patron of the media began in France, where, responding to political pressure, it set up a 60-million-euro fund to support press publishers’ innovation projects in 2013. The French fund was the blueprint for the Digital News Initiative (DNI)
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Donor Aid and Private Investment: Their Interplay with Media Development
Sage Open, volume 10, issue 2 (2020), 12 pp.
"This review has shown that media assistance from donor sources enhanced the development of the African media generally especially after the Second World War, but the inability of outlets to sustain their operations financially usher them into the “operational survival phase” where private inves
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Foreign Aid and Journalism in the Global South: A Mouthpiece for Truth
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Lanham: Lexington Books (2020), 205 pp.
"[This book] examines the way in which foreign aid has shaped professional ideologies of journalism as part of systematic and orchestrated efforts since the beginning of the twentieth century to shape journalism as a political institution of the Global South. Foreign aid pushed for cultural converge
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Synthesising Media, Politics and Foreign Intervention: An Examination Into Malawi’s Media System Transformation
Hong Kong Baptist University, Doctoral Thesis (2017), vi, 202 pp.
"The conventional method for studying media systems has been to analyse the relationship between media and politics, based on Hallin and Mancini’s (2004) seminal research Comparing Media Systems: Three Models of Media and Politics. Their approach automatically places the nation-state as the key un
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The Western Way? Democracy and the Media Assistance Model
Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 4, issue 2 (2014), 15 pp.
"International media assistance took off during a time where the ideological extremes of USA vs. USSR were set to disappear. Following the Cold War, international relations focused on democracy building, and nurturing independent media was embraced as a key part of this strategy [...] The US and UK
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The Evolution of Media Development: The Media Development Model in a Changing World
Dublin: Dublin Institute of Technology, Arrow@dit (2013), 17 pp.
"The origins of media development can be found in post World War II Europe and the industry grew as a more significant aspect of international aid work in the 1980s and the 1990s, following the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the former Soviet Union. It was hoped that exporting the concept o
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China in the African Mediascape
Rhodes Journalism Review, issue 29 (2009), pp. 52-53
"Chinese assistance to African media is not new. What is different now is that it is being administered in the post-Cold War era with a greater degree of openness." (Page 52)
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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La Presse et l'Afrique
Cahiers de l'I.I.P. (Zürich), issue 3-4 (1968), pp. 20-22
"Exposé devant l'Assemblée de l'I.I.P. à Nairobi. Résumé de la déclaration du Président Kaunda (Zambie) aux journalistes membres de l'LI.P. — Un facteur fondamental dans les relations entre la presse et l'Afrique indépendante est que l'Afrique ne possède pas de presse réellement représe
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Der imperialistische Propagandaapparat Westdeuschlands im Dienste des Neokolonialismus
Zeitschrift für Journalistik (Leipzig), issue 2 (1962), pp. 1-5
"Ausgehend von der Situation der Presse in den jungen Staaten, in denen die neokolonialistischen Monopole versuchen, ihre Positionen zu festigen und auszubauen, analysiert der Autor die Faktoren, die dieser Kolonialisierung zugrunde liegen: größere materielle Mittel, Informationsmonopol und Kontro
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Entwicklungshilfe in Pressefragen
Zeitschrift für Journalistik (Leipzig), issue 1 (1962), pp. 43-51
"Die Bemühungen der „Neokolonialisten“ zur Beeinflussung der neuen unabhängigen afroasiatischen Länder werden anhand der Situation der Presse in Nigeria, der westlichen Presseerklärungen und der technischen Hilfe der Bundesrepublik Deutschland im Bereich der Massenmedien beschrieben." (Jean-
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