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Journalism Training in Sudan: A Move Towards Enhanced Cooperation

International Media Support (IMS) (2009), 23 pp.

"One of the major obstacles to the development of a professional media is the lack of qualified education and training and media training remains a neglected area in Sudan. Education and training in journalism and related areas provided by universities are not responding sufficiently to the needs of ... more

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Demokratieförderung durch Journalistenausbildung in Südosteuropa

Bonn: Hochschulrektorenkonferenz (2009), 216 pp.

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Empowering Independent Media: U.S. Efforts to Foster Free and Independent News Around the World
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Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2008), 96 pp.

"This report provides an assessment of U.S. international media development efforts, both public and private, and calls on future efforts to be more long-term, comprehensive, and need-driven. Recommending a more holistic assistance approach, the report looks at the international media development fi ... more

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Using Content Analysis to Measure the Influence of Media Development Interventions: Elections Training for Journalists in Yemen

Sonia Whitehead, Esther Saville

London: BBC World Service Trust (2008), 8 pp.

"The findings from this research reveal the complexity of delivering journalism training and the challenges involved in capturing evidence of impact. Content analysis is a useful tool for measuring change in media output. It can both inform training delivery and provide evidence of improvements to o ... more

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Changing Paradigms in Media Education Aid in the Pacific

David Robie

In: South Pacific Islands Communication: Regional Perspectives, Local Issues

Evangelia Papoutsaki, Usha Sundar Harris (eds.)

Singapur: Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre (AMIC) (2008), pp. 59-81

"Journalism education (based for most of the past three decades at three Pacific universities) and industry short-course training have followed different yet parallel paths in the region. Aid donors have played important roles in both sectors, although often not particularly well coordinated. While ... journalism education was being established in the region for the first time at the University of Papua New Guinea in 1975, media industry executives met to plan a strategy to boost on-the-job training and to defend themselves from growing pressures from post-colonial governments. The industry established the Pacific Islands News Association (PINA), which became a major regional media lobby group. Subsequently, the region’s state broadcasters broke away in 1988 to form a rival body, Pacific Islands Broadcasting Association (PIBA), and to establish the region’s first news cooperative, Pacnews. For a brief three-year period between 1988 and 1991, the university journalism education sector and industry training managed reasonable cooperation under UNESCO’s Pacjourn project. During this time, UPNG hosted Pacjourn and its staff of media academics and trainers ran short-courses for the benefit of the media industry. The focus then swung back to Fiji with a new UNESCO project leading to the establishment of the PINA-initiated Pacific Journalism Training Development Centre. While the UPNG Journalism Programme was funded initially by New Zealand aid, DWU was a private institution funded primarily by the Catholic Church and staffed mainly by volunteers. The degree programme founded at USP in the mid 1990s was funded by the French government for four years. In 1994, the Fiji media industry established a vocational training centre, the Fiji Journalism Institute (FJI), with UNESCO and other donor funding assistance along with the Fiji government, which provided office space. Although this venture collapsed after six years under a cloud over financial accountability, both the Fiji Media Council and PINA moved to revive the centre through the Fiji Institute of Technology. The Samoa Polytechnic (now the Samoa Institute of Technology) also established a vocational journalism school in 2002. Fiji has been the only Pacific country where the media industry has established a vocational programme competing with an established journalism school at a university—the region’s largest. This has prompted concerns about duplication and wastage of resources. AusAID, through its Pacific Media and Communications Facility and its associated Media in Development Initiative programme in Papua New Guinea, has gained ascendancy in the region as a media aid donor—and in most other fields, too. It has sought to achieve greater coordination in the region’s media training and aid cooperation between agencies. This also led to the merger of PINA and PIBA in 2004 for the benefit of the region. However, this trend has also led to growing concern in media and academic circles over a loss of independence and sovereignty over media training and educational policies—is aid a panacea or Pandora’s box for media training and education sustainability? It is critical for governance that future media training aid should have more transparency with funds being spread more evenly across several agencies so that no single industry group effectively holds too much power over journalism training policy. And the media should become proactive over reportage and debate over media aid issues and challenge conflicts of interest. Non-government organisations such as AusAID and the UN organisations need to tackle aid policy more robustly to push for a new funding paradigm in support of the Fourth Estate in the region in the digital age." (Conclusion) more

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Radio Nederland Training Centre en América Latina: Memoria pedagógica de tres décadas 1978-2008

Daniel Prieto Castillo

Hilversum: Radio Nederland Training Centre (RNTC) (2008), 175 pp.

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Training Journalists to Report on HIV/AIDS: Final Evaluation of a Global Program

Jon Cohen, Laurie Zivetz, Mia Malan

Arcata: Internews Network (2008), 50 pp.

"Internews Network, a U.S.-based organization that for more than two decades has trained journalists around the world, in 2002 received funding from the United States Agency for International Development to launch a project in Africa to help media improve their coverage of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Cal ... more

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Strengthening Independent Media Program in Timor-Leste: Quarterly Performance Report, No. 4

Vjollca Shtylla

Washington, DC: International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) (2007), 71 pp.

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Media Assistance: Challenges and Opportunities for the Professional Development of Journalists. Working Group Report

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2007), 19 pp.

"This report represents input from twenty-three practitioners who have observed, planned, and implemented media education programs of the U.S. and other Western governments, as well as those of private funders. The group discussed broad lessons learned and specific recommendations for policymakers, ... more

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An Imperative to Innovate: Sustainable Journalism Training in Central and Eastern Europe. Final Report to the Knight Foundation

Aaron Presnall (ed.)

Washington, DC: Jefferson Institute (2007), 52 pp.

"Our analysis will proceed along the following lines. First, it will show how media development promotes market-based democracy. Second, it examines the particular role of Central and East European journalist training centers in media development. Third, we broaden the scope beyond fixed training ce ... more

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Journalism Education as a Vehicle for Media Development in Africa: The AMDI Project

Patrick M. McCurdy, Gerry Power

African Journalism Studies, volume 28, issue 1-2 (2007), pp. 127-147

"This overview is based on data obtained from a wider analysis of the state of media development in Africa – the African Media Development Initiative (AMDI). The analysis draws on a sample of university lecturers and department heads of mass communication, media and journalism studies from across ... more

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University Journalism Education: A Global Challenge

Ellen Hume

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2007), 35 pp.

"This report explores the current state of university-based journalism education and describes avenues for engaging those international media developers by highlighting three strategies: • Universities are important for entry-level journalism training. International media developers should conside ... more

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Crafting the Arab Media for Peace-Building: Donors, Dialogue and Disasters

Bruce Stanley

In: Arab Media and Political Renewal: Community, Legitimacy and Public Life

Naomi Sakr (ed.)

London; New York: Tauris (2007), pp. 135-153

"From small beginnings in the 1960s, Western governments and international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) are today spending huge sums on media intervention in Arab countries, to the point where such intervention has become an industry. Among the plethora of media projects aimed at moulding ... more

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Journalism as a Tool for the Formation of a Free, Informed and Participatory Democratic Development: Swedish Support to a Palestinian Journalist Training Project on the West Bank and Gaza for the Period 1996-2005

Birgitte Jallov

Stockholm: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2006), 49 pp.

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IREX: Final Program Report. Montenegro Independent Media Program

Washington, DC: IREX (2006), 34 pp.

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e-Learning: Comunicación y educación. El diálogo continúa en el ciberespacio

Daniel Prieto Castillo, Peter van de Pol

San José (CR): Radio Nederland Training Centre (RNTC) (2006), 245 pp.

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Foreign Aid in Pacific Media Education: Panacea or Pandora’s Box?

David Robie

Media Asia, volume 34, issue 2 (2006), pp. 66-78

"Since New Zealand development assistance helped establish the South Pacific’s first journalism school at the University of Papua New Guinea in 1975, many international aid agencies have contributed to media training and education in the region. Among the donors in a competitive environment, have ... more

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Retelling the News in Central Europe: Western Journalism as Democratic Discourse

James Miller

In: Nationalist Myths and Modern Media: Contested Identities in the Age of Globalization

J. H. Brinks, Stella Rock, Edward Timms (eds.)

London: Tauris (2006), pp. 39-54

"This paper has shown that media assistance donors to Central Europe misplaced their emphasis on the trainign of journalistic craft skills as a principal means of introducing what they rather uncritically called 'democratic journalism' to post-Communist societies. There are many narrative choices in ... more

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Journalistenausbildung in Mosambik

Christoph Hantel

Berlin: Frank & Timme (2006), 426 pp.

"Christoph Hantel hat drei Jahre an einer mosambikanischen Universität Journalisten ausgebildet. In einer landesweiten Befragung ließ er ein Zehntel aller mosambikanischen Journalisten interviewen, sprach mit Herausgebern, Politikern und Dozenten und besuchte Medien und Ministerien. Er zeichnet ei ... more

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Political Violence and Journalism in a Multiethnic State: A Case Study of Burma (Myanmar)

Lisa Brooten

Journal of Communication Inquiry, volume 30, issue 4 (2006), pp. 354-373

"Debates about the role of media in situations of political violence call into question whether journalists should focus on “objective” reporting or instead facilitate conflict resolution. Yet an increasingly problematic assumption is that journalists are outsiders to the communities in conflict ... more

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