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SAEF Report on Observation of Media Conduct During the 2014 Malawi Tripartite Elections

Southern African Editor's Forum (SAEF) (2014), 15 pp.

"SAEF’s major finding in Malawi was that although the media had covered the entire election process fairly well, it had failed to give equitable coverage to all three parts of the elections – presidential, parliamentary and local government. The press gave 40% coverage to the presidential race, ... more

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Face-To-Face Survey Overview Summary Results

London: Balancing Act (2014), 50 pp.

"Mobile ownership in all of the four surveys [in Ghana, Nothern Nigeria, Senegal and Tanzania] was around 90%, making the mobile phone the most widely owned device media device, both used as a media carrier (radio) and a media in its own right (Internet, SMS) [...] Radio remains the dominant medium ... more

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Feature Phone User Survey: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa

London: Balancing Act (2014), 64 pp.

"Feature phone users are significantly more likely to use the Internet almost as much radio and TV for news and information. This is not an either/or set of choices but the Internet is part of the range of media they use. Internet is in second position in Nigeria, third position in Ethiopia and Keny ... more

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African Media Barometer: Swaziland 2014

Windhoek; Mbabane: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2014), 69 pp.

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Selbstzensur aus Angst und Armut - Im Konfliktgebiet Ost-Kongo existiert die Meinungs- und Pressefreiheit nur auf dem Papier

Judith Raupp

In: Frieden auf der globalen Entwicklungsagenda: Beiträge für einen positiven Frieden

Konsortium Ziviler Friedensdienst (ed.)

Frankfurt am Main: welt-sichten (2014), pp. 15-17

"Um die Pressefreiheit in der Demokratischen Republik Kongo ist es alles andere als gut bestellt. Viele Journalisten sind verunsichert oder kommen ihrer Arbeit nicht mehr nach, weil sie Angst vor Schikanen, Verfolgung oder schlimmstenfalls um das eigene Leben haben. Der Zivile Friedensdienst engagie ... more

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Genozid in Ruanda

Message, issue 4 (2014), pp. 36-45

"Bei der Aufarbeitung des Völkermords in Ruanda liefern die Medien kaum Neues. Ihre zugespitzten und vereinfachende Berichte werden dem komplexen Ereignis oft nicht gerecht. Im Interview kritisiert Stefan Brüne überholte Gut-Böse-Narrative und fordert, im Angesicht aktueller Krisen den Fokus der ... more

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Media Development with Chinese Characteristics

Iginio Gagliardone

Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 4, issue 2 (2014), 16 pp.

"China’s concessionary loans and support to development projects have tended to shift balances of power by favouring certain actors over others and have challenged existing development paradigms, revitalizing ideas of the developmental state. Building on fieldwork conducted in Ghana, Ethiopia, and ... more

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Promouvoir des médias professionnels et responsables contribuant aux processus démocratiques dans les Grands Lacs: Projet de la Coopération suisse. Étude de faisabilité

Marie-Soleil Frère, Willy Nindorera, Anke Fiedler

Panos Grands Lacs;Association Burundaise des Radiodiffuseurs (ABR);Panos Europe (2014), 298 pp.

"Premier jalon de ce programme, cette étude, réalisée pour le compte de l’IPGL et de l’ABR par une équipe de 6 consultants locaux et internationaux, dresse un état des lieux du paysage médiatique des trois zones concernées. Il met en évidence des différences majeures entre les trois esp ... more

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Jésus au bout du clic: L'Eglise répond à la communication

Jean-Baptiste Malenge Kalunzu

Kinshasa: Baobab (2014), 152 pp.

"Poussées autant par l’enseignement de l’Eglise que par les appels de la mission au quotidien, les communautés de l’Eglise d’Afrique s’engagent de jour en jour et de mieux en mieux pour apporter une réponse aux appels à la communication. Il suffit même de considérer le besoin de visi ... more

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The Mobile Economy Sub-Saharan Africa 2014

London: GSMA (2014), 68 pp.

"Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has been the fastest growing region over the last five years, in terms of both unique subscribers and connections. By June 2014, there were 329 million unique subscribers, equivalent to a penetration rate of 38%. Consumers, governments and businesses across SSA are rapidly ... more

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The Power of Talk: Media and Accountability in Three African Countries

Rebecca Stringer

London: BBC Media Action (2014), 24 pp.

"This policy briefing offers an empirical contribution to evolving thinking on governance within the international development landscape. Using the example of media, we argue that interventions designed to foster demand-based accountability may not be as successful in some fragile settings as more d ... more

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Media Laws: Training Curriculum

London: Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR) (2014), 70 pp.

"The aim of this handbook is to equip the reader with an understanding of Rwanda’s new media laws, both in terms of the rights and obligations introduced, as well as in terms of the regulatory and institutional structure they have established. The handbook is presented in seven modules, which comp ... more

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Development Journalism and Gender: A Case Study of Broadcasting Media in Tanzania

Eva Solomon

Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, Doctoral Thesis (2014), 277 pp.

"While development journalism was mainly a top-down form of communication (authoritative) during the socialistic era, in the liberal era the development-oriented journalists draw on both the Social Responsibility and Libertarian Theories of the media. The ‘state–public service’ broadcasters re ... more

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African Media Barometer: Botswana 2014

Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2014), 65 pp.

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Annual Report 2014

Dar es Salaam: World Family of Radio Maria Africa (2014), 21 pp.

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Business Journalism Thrives - Even Under Repressive Regimes

Don Podesta

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2014), 8 pp.

"Even as a growing number of authoritarian regimes crack down on the political press, business news is thriving. And the coverage is more vigorous than might be expected. Enterprising journalists are exposing mismanagement and unearthing shady business deals, and — even at times exposing official ... more

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Baseline Study Report on Women Access to Information Through Mobile and Media Communication Services

Liberia Women Media Action Committee (LIWOMAC);United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF) (2014), 38 pp.

"Out of a total 400 participants, 374 respondents, representing 93.5%, know how to use cell phones, while 26, representing 6.5%, have no knowledge whatsoever about cell phone usage. This finding is indicative of a relatively high knowledge of mobile phones utility. The result also indicates that Lon ... more

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The Gambia Media Survey

Gates Malaria Partnership;Center for Innovation Against Malaria (2014), 56 pp.

"A national survey was completed in November 2004, designed to measure: media access and use; knowledge of Malaria, its prevention and cure; reach of the radio programme Bolongodala. The sample achieved represented the adult (15+) population of the Gambia estimated to be 768,200. Mandinka is the mos ... more

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Religion & communication

David Douyère, Stéphane Dufour, Odile Riondet

Paris: L'Harmattan (2014), 232 pp.

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Women in Politics and Media: Perspectives from Nations in Transition

Maria Raicheva-Stover, Elza Ibroscheva (eds.)

New York; London: Bloomsbury Academic (2014), xiv, 334 pp.

"This is the first collection to de-Westernize the scholarship on women, politics and media by: 1) highlighting the latest research on countries and regions that have not been ‘the usual suspects’; 2) featuring a diverse group of scholars, many of non-Western origin; 3) giving voice through pers ... more