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Media and COVID-19 in West Africa: Liberia
Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA)
(2020), 7 pp.
"With the exception of the introduction of new press passes for the journalists by the Deputy Minister of Information and the harassment that followed its implementation, the media landscape in Liberia in May and June has been open and free. Even though the Ministry of Information reduced the freque...
Media and COVID-19 in West Africa: Sierra Leone
Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA)
(2020), 8 pp.
"Sierra Leone continues to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic through the dissemination of information across various platforms. The media have generally been supportive in providing the public with information and education about COVID-19. However, media owners and managers continue to raise concerns...
Conveying truth: independent media in Putin’s Russia
Politics and Public Policy Shorenstein Center on Media
(2020), 39 pp.
"This study examines the evolution of independent Russian media, from the glasnost era to the pandemic. It describes some of the pandemic coverage and identifies several of the newsrooms that gave Russians reliable, accountability journalism throughout the early months of the crisis. It may seem obv...
Help stop the spread of disinformation! A guide and 10-point checklist to help people think before they link
Institute for Public Relations
(2020), 6 pp.
Advancements in technology have made it difficult for people to discern real posts, sites, or videos from fake ones. To help, IPR has created “10 Ways to Identify Disinformation—A Checklist” to help people think before they link:1. Who is the author or source?2. How current is the sour...
Global communication: a multicultural perspective
Lanham et al.:
Rowman & Littlefield
(2020) 3rd ed., xxviii, 454 pp., abbrev. p.423-425, bibliogr. p.426-454, index
ISBN 978-1-538-12165-8
"Brings together diverse issues and expert perspectives of twenty-two notable and accomplished communication scholars, representing eight countries around the world. Together they discuss international communication, public relations and advertising, cultural implications of globalization, internati...
Unshackling expression: Philippines report
Foundation for Media Alternatives; Cyrilla; Association for Progressive Communications (APC)
(2020), 44 pp.
"It may be observed that, first, at the level of public perception, government actions to restrict free speech are often preceded by statements criticizing the media and foreshadowing a penalty or sanction, which are actually directed to the public and not the media, as if to prime the latter on the...
Iran: tightening the net 2020. After blood and shutdowns
London:
Article 19
(2020), 63 pp.
"In November 2019, protests broke out across Iran over a fuel price hike; authorities responded with violence and repression. They also disconnected millions of Iranians from the Internet. Iran’s November shutdowns were unprecedented in length and reach. On a vast scale, they cut people off from v...
Evaluating academic and media nongovernmental organization partnerships for participatory data gathering
International journal of market research, volume 63, issue 1 (2020), pp. 43-57
"This article discusses participatory methods for data gathering in the context of a partnership between a Swiss-based media development organization, Fondation Hirondelle, and a research team at the University of Sheffield. In 2018–2019, the partnership conducted fieldwork which focused on the im...
Consejo de redacción: travesías de una experiencia
Bogotá:
Consejo de Redacción; Opciones Gráficas Editores
(2020), 120 pp.
ISBN 978-958-56411-5-0
"Hace doce años, un equipo de periodistas compartió el sueño de mejorar la investigación en Colombia y para cumplirlo definieron un plan de trabajo y se juntaron durante meses. Querían crear una red de periodistas de investigación y un espacio para intercambiar experiencias y conocimientos con...
The rise of internet throttling: a hidden threat to media development
Washington, DC:
Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA)
(2020)
"An increasing number of governments around the world are forcing internet service providers to slow their services during critical sociopolitical junctures—a practice known as throttling—infringing on citizens’ right to information and freedom of expression. Despite its deleterious impact on ...
Routledge handbook of environmental journalism
London; New York:
Routledge
(2020), xx, 421 pp., illustrations, index
ISBN 978-1-138-47850-3 (hbk); 978-1-351-06840-6 (online)
"An increasing number of media platforms - from newspapers and television to Internet social media networks - are the major providers of indispensable information about the natural world and environmental risk. Despite the dramatic changes in the news industry that have tended to reduce the number o...
Forum Media and Development
Forum Medien und Entwicklung (fome)
(2020), 19 pp.
"This publication is a directory of the member organisaztions of the German Forum Media and Development (fome) and their main areas of work as of August 2020." (Commbox-CD)
Practitioner‘s toolkit: dealing with the past
Cologne:
Academy for Conflict Transformation
(2020), 23 pp.
"Societies attempting to ignore atrocities committed in the conflict setting generally find themselves confronted by their persistence. Whether manifesting as unresolved grievance, as social dysfunctionality or an easy reversion to violence, or as a simple reiteration of old animosities, the eventua...
Journalism in Turkey: practices, challenges, opportunities
Berlin:
Peter Lang
(2020), 304 pp., 20 illustr.
ISBN 978-3-631-82886-1 (print); 978-3-631-83132-8 (pdf)
CC BY-NC-ND
"Journalism in Turkey has an ambivalent characteristic. On the one hand, the social demand for genuine journalism has increased, and on the other hand, news has turned into a tool within the polluted political polarization atmosphere. In the age of fake news and post-truth, practices of journalism i...
Main generic frames in the media coverage of environmental popular consultations in Colombia
Palobra, volume 20, issue 1 (2020), pp. 41-63
"Guided by the Framing Theory, this paper presents the final results of a content analysis performed on a group of news from three cases of environmental popular consultations in Colombia, aiming to find the main generic frames on them to understand how the debate was shaped within the Andean countr...
La verification des faits dans le journalisme
Centre Africain de Perfectionnement des Journalistes et Communicateurs (CAPJC); Media Up Programme d’Appui aux Médias Tunisiens
(2020), 104 pp.
"Ce guide présente d’abord le concept de fausse nouvelle dans toutes ses dimensions et la façon dont celles-ci peuvent contaminer l’information aussi bien en Tunisie que dans le reste du monde. Un journaliste a besoin de comprendre les différentes formes que peut revêtir la désinformation a...
Foreign aid and journalism in the Global South: a mouthpiece for truth
Lanham:
Lexington Books
(2020), 205 pp., bibliogr. p.169-199, index
ISBN 978-1-4985-8335-0 (hbk); 978-1-4985-8336-7 (ebook)
"[This book] examines the way in which foreign aid has shaped professional ideologies of journalism as part of systematic and orchestrated efforts since the beginning of the twentieth century to shape journalism as a political institution of the Global South. Foreign aid pushed for cultural converge...
Dialling in the law: a comparative assessment of jurisprudence on internet shutdowns
Association for Progressive Communication (APC); Cyrilla
(2020), 23 pp.
ISBN 978-92-95113-31-2
CC BY-NC-SA
"This report and the associated workbook seeks to contribute to the discourse in three ways. First, we hope to open an extensible documentation and overview of practices, experiences, and resources on the legitimisation of, and resistance to, state-backed internet shutdowns across the world. Second,...
Surprising news: how the media affect - and do not affect - politics
Boulder; London:
Rienner
(2019), x, 277 pp., 16 tables, bibliogr. p.247-266, index
ISBN 978-1-62637-770-7
"In chapter 2, the book lays down its foundations with a review of a large body of experimental psychology research on how and why individuals can preserve their beliefs, sometimes in the face of all evidence, logic, and argument to the contrary. The second part of the chapter shows that millions of...
China’s new media dilemma: the profit in online dissent
Washington, DC:
Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA)
(2019), 24 pp.
"Drawing from often overlooked sources of evidence, this report shows that China’s homegrown social media platforms have responded to market incentives by subtly shielding users from certain forms of online censorship and repression. Meanwhile, the party confronts rising costs—both economicall...
