Our Recommendations
- African broadcast cultures: radio in transition (2000)
- The global expression report 2022: the intensifying battle for narrative control (2022)
- Handbook for constructive journalism (2021)
- Digitalisation and civic space: chances and challenges (2022)
- The data journalism handbook: towards a critical data practice (2021)
New Publications
- The other air force: U.S. efforts to reshape Middle Eastern media since 9/11 (2016)
- Transformations in Egyptian journalism (2013)
- Development efforts to promote investigative reporting: a preliminary assessment of centers in Azerbaijan, Jordan, Bangladesh, and Bosnia (2014)
- Évaluation de l’appui aux médias en période électorale en Afrique subsaharienne. Synthèse du rapport (2013)
- "All successful democracies need freedom of speech": American efforts to create a vibrant free press in Iraq and Afghanistan (2005)
Filter
680
Featured
New Publications
4
Free access
2
Inspiring practice
4
Key Guidance
2
Quick overview
2
Top Insights
2
Language
Document type
Country Reports
84
Guides, Toolkits, Manuals
66
Discussion & Policy Papers, Recommendations
54
Experiences & Case Studies
36
Textbooks
14
Seminar Reports, Conference Proceedings
8
Evaluation Reports
6
Workshop Modules, Curricula, Facilitator's Guides
6
Statistical Data
5
Directories
4
Illustrated Books, Photo Books, Comics
3
Project Descriptions & Reports
3
Criteria Catalogues & Frameworks
3
Annual Surveys & Yearbooks
2
Testimonies & Oral Histories
1
Needs Assessments, Baseline & Feasibility Studies
1
Countries / Regions
Africa
56
USA
51
International Scope
45
Latin America
38
Germany
38
China
37
India
36
Europe
35
Russia
33
Colombia
30
South Africa
30
Brazil
27
Kenya
25
United Kingdom
24
Mexico
23
Nigeria
22
Peru
22
Middle East
20
Ukraine
19
Afghanistan
19
Asia
18
Ghana
17
Australia
16
Zimbabwe
16
Egypt
16
Argentina
15
Palestine
15
Poland
15
Myanmar / Burma
15
Spain
14
Pakistan
14
Turkey
13
Lebanon
13
Rwanda
12
Tunisia
12
Uganda
12
Indonesia
12
Serbia
11
Syria
11
Japan
11
Israel
11
Sudan
11
Ethiopia
11
Iraq
11
Morocco
10
Cambodia
10
Jordan
10
Arab World
10
Chile
9
Iran
9
Philippines
9
Italy
9
Hungary
9
France
9
Bangladesh
9
Zambia
9
Ecuador
9
Cameroon
8
Malaysia
8
Mozambique
8
Oceania & Pacific Islands
8
South Korea
8
Finland
8
Vietnam
8
Canada
7
Austria
7
Tanzania
7
Eastern & Central Europe
7
Belgium
7
Bosnia and Herzegovina
7
Czech Republic
7
Sri Lanka
7
Central African Republic
7
Switzerland
6
Thailand
6
Singapore
6
Burundi
6
Mongolia
6
Venezuela
6
Uruguay
6
Sweden
6
Algeria
6
Hong Kong
6
Netherlands
6
Bolivia
6
Namibia
6
Romania
6
Libya
6
Nepal
5
Sierra Leone
5
Estonia
5
Kyrgyzstan
5
Malawi
5
Bulgaria
5
Ireland
5
North America
5
Portugal
5
New Zealand
5
Taiwan
5
Yemen
5
Slovakia
5
Mali
5
South Sudan
5
Tajikistan
4
Gambia
4
Albania
4
Senegal
4
Niger
4
Saudi Arabia
4
Gabon
4
Latvia
4
Slovenia
4
Southeast Europe
4
Bahrain
4
Kuwait
4
Moldova
4
Greece
4
Somalia
4
Cuba
4
El Salvador
3
Kazakhstan
3
Congo-Brazzaville
3
Burkina Faso
3
Croatia
3
Denmark
3
Norway
3
Azerbaijan
3
Côte d'Ivoire / Ivory Coast
3
South Asia
3
Kosovo
3
Costa Rica
3
Oman
3
United Arab Emirates
3
Georgia
3
Angola
3
Chad
3
Liberia
3
Guatemala
3
North Macedonia
2
North Korea
2
Benin
2
Fiji
2
Laos
2
Uzbekistan
2
Qatar
2
Armenia
2
Haiti
2
Lithuania
2
Turkmenistan
2
Jamaica
2
Belarus
2
Equatorial Guinea
2
East Africa
2
Panama
2
Amazonia
2
Arab Gulf States
2
Papua New Guinea
2
Nicaragua
2
Honduras
2
Botswana
2
Lesotho
1
Vanuatu
1
Guinea
1
Dominican Republic
1
Southeast Asia
1
Western Europe
1
Paraguay
1
Luxembourg
1
Maldives
1
Southern Africa
1
Central Africa
1
Western Sahara
1
Caribbean
1
Grenada
1
Trinidad and Tobago
1
Micronesia
1
Kiribati
1
Marshall Islands
1
Nauru
1
Palau (Belau)
1
Cook Islands
1
Tonga
1
Tuvalu
1
Lusophone Africa
1
Brunei
1
East Asia
1
Abkhazia
1
Montenegro
1
Former Yugoslavia
1
Chechnya
1
Baltic States
1
Former Soviet Union
1
North Africa, Maghreb
1
South America
1
Kurdistan
1
Samoa
1
Bhutan
1
Solomon Islands
1
Authors & Publishers
Media focus
Publication Years
Toolboxes
Evaluating Communication & Media
3
Financing Media
1
Evaluation Methods & Tools
1
Indicators & Assessment Criteria
1
Special collections
Journalism & Working Conditions of Journalists
2
Media Landscape, Media System
1
Civil Society Organisations & Journalism Safety
1
Methods applied
Output Type
Media guidelines for reporting on accessible elections
General Election Network for Disability Access (AGENDA)
(2015), 55 pp., illustr., tables, glossary p.37-40, directory p.41-50
"For the last couple of years, there were more reporting on disability in the media but most of them only reporting and portraying the ‘uniqueness’ of disability. In the election news reporting, media only portray the Persons with Disabilities on the voting process but the news still did not hav...
Arab media moguls
London; New York:
Tauris
(2015), xiii, 233 pp., bibliogr. p.223-228, index
ISBN 978-1-78076-732-1 (pbk); 978-1-7845-3277-2 (hbk); 978-0-7556-0854-6 (online)
"Transformations in the Arab media landscape are a key element in the regional dynamics of political change. Where do the private owners of Arab media outlets stand on the scene? What part, if any, have they played in weakening dictatorships, countering sectarianism and political polarisation, and r...
When the camera exposes the rifle. Special report: violations against photojournalists in the West Bank and Gaza Strip
Ramallah:
MADA Palestinian Center for Development & Media Freedoms
(2015), 13 pp., diagrams
"The three photos of the drowned Syrian refugee kid Aylan Kurdi, the Palestinian kid Mohammad Al-Dorra (during the second Intifada) and the Vietnamese Napalm girl Phan Th. Kim Phúc, caused enormous influence, not only among millions of people but also on decision makers. Therefore, photojournalists...
Expression restricted: an account of online expression in Pakistan
Bytes for All; Association for Progressive Communications (APC); APC Impact
(2015), 37 pp.
"How is freedom of expression in Pakistan’s digital spaces governed? What protections do journalists and bloggers enjoy? What is censored and how conducive is the environment for political and religious expression online? This research looks at these questions within the premise of an internationa...
Security versus access: the impact of mobile network shutdowns. Case study: Telenor Pakistan
London:
Institute for Human Rights and Business
(2015), 49 pp.
"Network shutdowns are usually justified on security grounds, and the counterargument is often framed around the impact on freedom of expression. However, the impacts of network shutdowns can have far-reaching, adverse economic and social implications and could affect future economic growth; further...
The United Nations and freedom of expression and information: critical perspectives
Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press
(2015), xxiv, 508 pp., index
ISBN 9781107083868 (print); 9781316018552 (online)
"There are a multitude of UN legal instruments which pertain to the rights of freedom of expression and information, and this book is the first to comprehensively map them and their function. It details the chequered history of both rights within the UN system and evaluates the suitability of the sy...
When the subaltern speaks: citizen journalism and genocide ‘victims’ voices online
African journalism studies, volume 36, issue 4 (2015), pp. 82-101
"The study uses online observation and critical discourse analysis (CDA) to examine how ‘Ndebeles’ [= Ndebele-speaking people of Zimbabwe] discuss the 1980s genocide and how citizen journalism has generally revolutionised their participation in debates silenced by the ruling elite. What strongly...
War on the media: journalists under attack in Libya
Human Rights Watch
(2015), 50 pp.
ISBN 978-1-6231-32309
"This report documents attacks against journalists and the offices and facilities of mediaoutlets since the 2011 uprising, including threats, assaults, kidnappings, and killings andaddresses the failure of the government to protect journalists and the media, and holdperpetrators of attac...
The new censorship: inside the global battle for media freedom
New York:
Columbia University Press
(2015), x, 236 pp., bibliogr. p.217-223, index
ISBN 978-0-231160643
"Drawing on his experience defending journalists on the front lines, Joel Simon calls for a global freedom-of-expression agenda. He proposes ten key priorities, including combating the murder of journalists, ending censorship, and a global free-expression charter to challenge the criminal and corrup...
India's gender digital divide: women and politics on twitter
New Delhi:
Observer Research Foundation (ORF)
(2015), 8 pp.
"This study explores the spatial politics of Othering and whether women are marginalized in political conversations online in India. It's methodology consists of an analysis of 23,350 tweets over an eight-day period. It shows a significant underrepresentation of women in Twitter's political conversa...
Assessment of the media development sector in the Southern Mediterranean region
MedMedia; European Union
(2015), 32 pp.
"This research study examines and assesses the progress of media development work in the Southern Mediterranean region in the wake of the Arab Spring. It highlights the challenges faced by international agencies and presents examples of effective, innovative interventions that could help to shape be...
Bangladesh's changing mediascape: from state control to market forces
Bristol:
intellect
(2014), xvi, 404 pp., many tables, figures, illustr., bibliogr. p.383-388, glossary p.389-392, index
ISBN 978-1-84150-473-5
"Among the many topics discussed here are the difference among specific media formats, including television, newspapers, radio, film and photography; policy issues; and the challenge that new media poses to governance in a developing nation faced with innumerable economic, social and political probl...
Windows of opportunity: the transformation of state media to public service media in Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Moldova and Serbia
Global media journal - German edition, volume 4, issue 2 (2014), 30 pp.
CC BY-NC
"The transformation of state media to public service media (PSM) is one of the most ambitious endeavors in the field of media development. Not many efforts to free the national media from government control have succeeded in the past decades. In this paper the comparatively promising cases of Kyrgyz...
Looking at the Tuol Sleng Museum of genocidal crimes, Cambodia, on Flickr and YouTube
Media, culture & society, volume 36, issue 6 (2014), pp. 790-809
"'During the Khmer Rouge regime (1975-9) the Tuol Svay Prey high school in Phnom Penh was used under the codename S21 as a torture-and-execution centre. In 1979, the government of the newly established People's Republic of Kampuchea had it refurbished as memorial. Today, people from all over the wor...
La frontera amazónica de Colombia con Brasil y Perú: elementos para comprender la pertinencia de la integración y la cooperación fronteriza
Revista Colombia amazónica, volume , issue 7 (2014), pp. 115-128
"Éste artículo tiene como objetivo analizar cómo ha sido el proceso de integración fronteriza que tiene Colombia con sus vecinos amazónicos, Brasil y Perú, alrededor del territorio de la Triple Frontera compartida por los tres países. Por medio de revisión bibliográfica, una visita de campo...
Development efforts to promote investigative reporting: a preliminary assessment of centers in Azerbaijan, Jordan, Bangladesh, and Bosnia
Paper presented at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Rio de Janeiro; Investigative Journalism Education Consortium (IJEC)
(2014)
"This paper compares and contrasts four centers: The Center for Investigative Reporting in Bosnia-Herzegovina (CIN), The Journalism Training and Research Initiative in Bangladesh (JATRI), the Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism in Jordan (ARIJ), and The Caucasus Media Investigations Center (...
Newsgathering and policy perceptions in Ukraine
Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG); Gallup
(2014), 35 slides
"Use of Ukrainian vs. Russian in news content is not important for the vast majority of adults; trust in content is key to reliance on sources. Ukrainian TV channels remain the top news sources for adults across ethnic groups and regions (other than Crimea), and offer news trusted by large majoritie...
Lautsprecher und Widersprecher: ein Ansatz zum Vergleich der Mediensysteme
Köln:
Herbert von Halem Verlag
(2014), 440 pp., 60 tab., bibliogr. p.403-440
ISBN 978-3-86962-049-7
"Der Autor porträtiert 23 Länder aus sechs Weltregionen. Anschließend bildet er mittels des pragmatischen Differenz-Ansatzes sechs Modelle heraus: Das liberale Modell, das Public-Service-Modell, das Klientel-Modell, das Schock-Modell, das Patrioten-Modell und das Kommando-Modell. Dabei zeigt sich...
Media and conflict: an assessment of the evidence
Progress in development studies, volume 14, issue 2 (2014), pp. 181-195
"This article assesses the evidence used to in arguments for the role of the media in conflict and post-conflict situations. It focuses on two broad areas within the literature. First, it examines literature on the contribution of media in war to peace transitions, including assessment of evidence u...
The failure of a success story: reforming Georgia’s public service broadcaster
Global media journal - German edition, volume 4, issue 2 (2014), 22 pp.
CC BY-NC
"The Georgian public service broadcaster has been unable to develop into an autonomous and independent media organisation in spite of all the legal and institutional safeguards. It has been a victim of intense political manipulation and interference throughout its existence, and most domestic and ex...
