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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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Tasting Western Journalism: Media Training in the Middle East

Gordon R. Robison

Los Angeles: University of Southern California, Center on Public Diplomacy (2005), 10 pp.

"Newsroom managers throughout the Middle East recognize the need for improved standards among the region’s journalists, and training programs are proliferating. It’s no surprise that reporters in places like Iraq need to learn the most basic skills of the craft. But in the rich oil states of the ... more

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Regional Training Programme in Environment Journalism and Communication in the Eastern African Region

Gustav Böklin

Stockholm: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2004), 60 pp.

"This review mission covers the period from the start of the Regional Training Programme in Environment Journalism and Communication in the Eastern African Region in February 2002 until September 2003. In other circumstances this would be referred as a pilot phase. The main conclusion of this review ... more

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Mid-Term Assessment of IREX Media Innovations Program

Rich McClear, Mark Koenig

USAID;IREX (2004), 37 pp.

Empowering Independent Media: U.S. Efforts to Foster Free and Independent News Around the World Top Insights

Empowering Independent Media: U.S. Efforts to Foster Free and Independent News Around the World
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