"USAID’s Latin American Journalism Project (LAJP), which focused on journalistic standards and practices in Central America from 1988 to 1997, was the Agency’s first major media initiative. The project stemmed from an assessment and conference, and a proposal by Florida International University
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(FIU), that concluded that educational and training programs carried out over the long term would have a positive impact on journalism throughout the region. As designed and implemented by FIU, the project provided training to nearly 7,000 participants on different aspects of journalism. When funding lapsed in 1997, the Agency passed the torch to the Center for Latin American Journalism (CELAP), a private, self-supporting institution that continues to provide journalism training in Latin America. As a part of its global assessment of media assistance, USAID’s Center for Development Information and Evaluation (CDIE)1 evaluated the achievements, impacts, and limitations of the LAJP and CELAP programs in October 2002." (Executive summary)
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"Foreign aid has continually searched for true north and never found it. In the beginning, development experts concentrated on national economic growth, believing the benefits would trickle down to poor people. Free press systems benefit American journalists and their institutions directly. Because
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of their duty to inform their customers, journalists have an interest in securing as much access to the rest of the world as possible. Countries with free press systems afford more access than those without. Also, well-trained foreign journalists can aid media organizations. Journalists were among the first to call for foreign aid. As the ones who know and care most about a free press, they should make propagation of independent media their special aid mission. The task is too important a matter to be left to anyone else. The Independent Journalism Foundation, among a few other institutions, operates in-the-field training centers for working journalists that sometimes include special training for students." (Abstract)
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"As such, support for media is an important prong of U.S. democracy and governance assistance. USAID’s objective of the increased development of a politically active civil society provides a strategic rationale for mediarelated activities. In addition, a desired result of an enhanced free flow of
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information broadly states the Agency's target for media activities. [...] The strategic approach presented in this paper offers guidance to USAID missions, rather than any blueprint, for making choices about which media activities might be most appropriate in a given context. In addition to suggesting a goal to guide USAID media programs, the approach provides examples of successful media assistance activities and discusses factors influencing their success." (Introduction, page 1-2)
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"There are no neat prescriptions for nurturing a free press in a society that has little or no democratic legacy. Every step is a first step and there are no well-worn paths or time-honored institutions. There have been obvious successes in Albania. The technical and material aid to the newspapers h
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as propelled production practices from the 1940's into the 1990's in only a few short years. Broadcasting, while still laboring under the yoke of government ownership, is changing due to cultural and political influences from abroad, and aid programs have put the building blocks in place to offer alternatives to government programming when and if laws allow. But technical successes are only part of the recipe for building a free and independent media. Albania's most potent legacy is one of totalitarian rule, and without a great deal of political maturation, the aid given to the media could easily be turned into a tool for exploiting the seamy and the sensational. Or worse; the underdog free press could become the lapdog of yet another repressive regime." (Conclusion)
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"This publication is a detailed description and analysis of the work of the radio training centre of Deutsche Welle, DWAZ (now Deutsche Welle Akademie). It covers its theoretical background, its organisational context, curriculum development, and an analysis of the professional profile of course par
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ticipants." (commbox)
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"A highly practical report, intended for developing countries, which surveys in general terms the status of communication training, pinpointing deficiencies and identifying potentially influential trends. Discusses the nature of training, the institutions, the operational problems, and course planni
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ng and curriculum." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 428)
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"The most ambitious on-site training program sponsored in Africa by the Federal Republic of Germany ran from 1964 to 1970 on the premises of the Ethiopian Broadcasting Service in Addis Ababa. It offered a series of full-time radio courses, each lasting a whole year." (Page 290)