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Reporting Water in Southern Africa: A Media Guide to Managing Our Water Resources

Harare: Southern African Research and Documentation Centre (SARDC); Musokotwane Environment Resource Centre for Southern Africa (IMERCSA) (2009), 120 pp.

"Most of the current water problems in southern Africa arise from inadequate or improper management of water resources, rather than shortages. Thus it is essential to raise awareness of water availability and use, and of management approaches that are sustainable. A challenge for media practitioners ... when researching water issues is the problem that accessible sources of information tend to be cluttered with scientific and technical jargon. Statements commonly used in water expert circles often tend to be misunderstood or lose their meaning outside the profession, such as “…Water sustains ecosystems that provide valuable services to both the environment and people.” While water professionals and academics may get their information through peer-reviewed publications, specialist websites and water workshops, the public obtains knowledge of water management from television, radio, newspapers, magazines and sometimes through opinion leaders in their communities. The Internet is also becoming a useful tool in the search for knowledge about water resources due to its ability to offer access to large and varied amounts of information, although this can also be a liability, causing information overload. Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), which is a holistic approach to managing water and related resources, is widely discussed among water academics, practitioners and professionals involved in the management of water resources, who consider water an abundant “good” with social, economic and environmental value. While the IWRM concept is not well appreciated among some policy makers and the public, the media is quickly catching on to reporting the many users and uses, and on the need to foster economic efficiency, social equity and environmental sustainability in water resources management [...] It is thus the intention of this media guide to demonstrate that water reporting is not a technical specialisation but a bread-and-butter debate of today and tomorrow. This guide does not intend to make scientists out of journalists or the public, but to offer a quick reference to the main issues and policies as applied in southern Africa, to suggest ways to cut through the jargon, and to provide further references for reading and contacts for interviews." (Introduction, pages 9-10) more

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Best Practices of Journalism in Asia

Eric Loo

Singapore: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2009), xvi, 172 pp.

"The book’s narrative structure intentionally uses minimal theoretical academic abstractions. Instead, it adopts a pragmatic approach – journalistic to an extent – to speculate what works best for journalists in Asia given the political constraints and resource limitations that many are compel ... more

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¿Desarrollo? Encuentros y desencuentros entre medios y ciudadanía

Lima: Calandria; Observatorios en Red (2009), 327 pp.

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The Role of Mass Media in Local and Regional Economic Development (LRED)

Véronique Stolz, Tobias Stolz, Gavin Anderson

Abuja: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) (2008), 21 pp.

"This paper has highlighted that the mass media can play an important, if not critical, role in both enhancing the flow of information and improving public-private dialogue in the local context. The paper therefore recommends explicitly incorporating media into the approaches of LRED. This means wor ... more

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Responsabilidad de la prensa con el desarrollo: Hay tanto por hacer! Monitoreo de medios peruanos

Rosa María Alfaro Moreno (ed.)

Lima: Veeduría Ciudadana de la Comunicación Social (2008), 50 pp.

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Media and Development: Issues and Challenges in the Pacific Islands

Shailendra Singh, Biman Prasad (eds.)

Lautoka (FJ); Auckland: Fiji Institute of Applied Studies; Pacific Media Centre (2008), xii, 326 pp.

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Nuevos compromisos de la prensa con el desarrollo: Monitoreo latinoamericano

Rosa María Alfaro (coord.)

Lima: Calandria; Red Latinoamericana de Observatorio de Medios (2008), 50 pp.

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Making Poverty the Story: Time to Involve the Media in Poverty Reduction

Angela Wood, Jon Barnes

London: Panos London (2007), 64 pp.

"According to this report the media in low-income countries is too often left aside as a serious player in the fight against poverty. ‘It’s time that those active in poverty reduction realise the media is a public good and in a prime position to monitor whether poverty reduction is taking place. ... more

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State of Media Report: Governance and Development

Madang: Media Council of Papua New Guinea; Diwai Pacific (2007), 126 pp.

"The state of the media report consists of two parts: a media content analysis and a media and civil society organisation (CSO) data survey. The media content analysis deals with news, current affairs, and documentary content produced by a sample of Papua New Guinea (PNG) media organisations that us ... more

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Development Journalism: An Introduction

Dinesh C. Sharma

Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University, Asian Center for Journalism (ACFJ) (2007), 212 pp.

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Periodismo social: Para que nuestra información sea noticia

Andrea Vulcano

Asunción; Buenos Aires: Centro de Información y Recursos para el Desarrollo (CIRD); Poder Ciudadano; Fundación Konrad Adenauer (KAS), ed. paraguaya (2004), 151 pp.

"Aspiramos con esta iniciativa a que las organizaciones no gubernamentales puedan incorporar a sus proyectos herramientas de la comunicación y el periodismo, para que puedan convertir sus programas en actividades noticiables y a la información que generen, en fuente de los medios de comunicación. ... more

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Evaluation of the Development Gateway: Final Report

Aditya Jha, Vicky Seymour, Sean Sims

London: Development Studies Institute, School of Economics (2004), 46 pp.

"The Development Gateway is an Internet portal that seeks to promote sustainable development and poverty reduction through knowledge and resource sharing. Initially conceived and designed by the World Bank, it commenced operations as an independent not-for-profit organisation in July 2001. However, ... its launch and operations have been dogged by controversy as civil society organisations have objected to the Gateway’s links with the World Bank and its potential for disseminating the World Bank’s vision of development at the expense of more diverse and pluralistic views. In particular, criticism has centred on the Topics and Country Gateway sections of the web site, as being ill-conceived and biased, leading to the further marginalisation of southern knowledge, and the crowding out of other knowledge aggregators. This study evaluates the Topics and Country Gateway sections of the Development Gateway in light of the stated objectives, the initial criticisms and generally recognised principles for knowledge sharing. It combines an extensive review of documents and detailed analyses of the website to evaluate the governance of the Development Gateway, and the relevance and quality of the Topic and Country Gateway content. The key findings of the study corroborate the civil society criticisms in finding that the Development Gateway remains closely linked to the World Bank at both operational and strategic levels, that the information is predominantly from northern sources, that its operations are not transparent or accountable to civil society, and that it does not have any criteria or systems for measuring the impact of its services. More surprisingly, given the stature of the World Bank and the level of investment, there is no clear identification of who the beneficiaries are and how they may be benefiting. The content is not comprehensive and it has a strong bias towards technological topics at the expense of social and political topics. Also, it is poorly organised and is not cost-effective in comparison with other existing Internet portals. In fact the other development portals, rather than being crowded out, are thriving precisely because the performance of the Gateway is so poor. As an example, the global civil society portal OneWorld has substantially more content, twice as much usage, and eight times as many partnerships as the Development Gateway, all achieved for about a quarter of the spending. The Gateway has consumed more than $30 million of funding since its inception and is seeking another $40 million of public funding. This without having achieved many of the goals it set itself and with major question marks over its ability to deliver, as acknowledged, despite their limited scope, by the two evaluations of the Development Gateway undertaken or commissioned by the World Bank’s Operations Evaluation Department." (Executive summary, page 3) more

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Für eine Kultur der Differenzen: Friedens- und Dritte-Welt-Zeitschriften auf dem Prüfstand

Iserlohn: Evangelische Akademie Iserlohn (2004), 158 pp.

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Que país é este? Pobreza, desigualdade e desenvolvimento humano e social no foco da imprensa brasileira

Veet Vivarta (ed.)

São Paulo: Cortez Editora (2003), 194 pp.

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Von Bildern und Botschaften: Entwicklungsbezogene Publizistik im Übergang. Festschrift für Hans Norbert Janowski

Hans Spitzeck (ed.)

Hans Norbert Janowski (honoured person)

Bonn: Evangelischer Entwicklungsdienst (EED) (2002), 83 pp.

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Die entwicklungspolitischen Zeitschriften in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland: Eine annotierte Bibliographie

Norbert Minhorst, Rainer Feulner

Hamburg: Deutsches Übersee-Institut (1996), 166 pp.

"Diese Publikation beschreibt über 140 in der Bundesrepublik erscheinende Periodika. Neben bibliographischen Hinweisen werden Themenschwerpunkte, Zielsetzung und Anspruch der Zeitschrift benannt." (commbox)

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Concepts of Journalism: North and South

Michael Kunczik

Bonn: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), reprint (1995), 261 pp.

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Das Nord-Süd-Verhältnis in der Gewerkschaftspresse: Ausgewählte Aspekte der Dritte Welt-Berichterstattung von sechs gewerkschaftlichen Mitgliederzeitschriften im Zeitraum von 1960-1988

Ulla Mikota

Münster: Lit (1994), 248 pp.

"Die Forderung nach mehr Gerechtigkeit zwischen "Nord" und "Süd" stellt die metropolitanen Gewerkschaften vor große Herausforderungen. Für eine globale Umverteilung scheinen tiefgreifende Einstellungsänderungen bei Gewerkschaften und ihren Mitgliedern notwendig. Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht ... more

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Development and Communication: On the Importance of Communication in the Development Process

Michael Kunczik

Bonn: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (1992), 78 pp.

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Les mille et un mondes: Manuel de radio rurale

François Querre

Rome: FAO (1991), 215 pp.