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African Media Development Initiative: Senegal. Research findings and conclusions
London:
BBC World Service Trust
(2006), 77 pp.
ISBN 1-906086-10-9
"The changes are mostly of a quantitative nature: proliferation of newspaper publications, an increase in the number of frequencies attributed to radio stations (commercial and community stations). Greater superficiality in the editorial lines of most newspaper publications has also been noted. The ...
African Media Development Initiative: Ethiopia. Research findings and conclusions
London:
BBC World Service Trust
(2006), 82 pp.
ISBN 1-906086-05-2
"The following changes have taken place over the past five years: media laws have been enacted; a legal framework is in place with the Press Law and Broadcast Law, and the creation of a favourable environment for media development; the Ethiopian Broadcast Authority has been established to issue lice...
Media assistance to postgenocide Rwanda
In: Promoting democracy in postconflict societies
Jeroen de Zeeuw; Krishna Kumar (eds.)
Boulder, Colo.; London:
Rienner
(2006), pp. 211-235
African Media Development Initiative: Zimbabwe. Research findings and conclusions
London:
BBC World Service Trust
(2006), 82 pp.
ISBN 1-906086-16-8
"There are a number of media players in Zimbabwe, in the private and state media, NGOs and training institutions, who have a keen interest in the development of the media in Zimbabwe. The majority of interviewees see the enactment of Zimbabwe’s media laws as the key change that has taken place ove...
Public service media in the information society
Strasbourg:
Media Division Council of Europe
(2006), 48 pp., illustr.
"This document is a working paper, written at the request of MC-S-PSB (Group of Specialists on Public Service Broadcasting in the Information Society). Its main purpose is to describe some of the key developments and trends in media, and to address the long list of challenging and often controversia...
Corruption in emergencies: what role(s) for media? Report from U4 working meeting 30 May, 2006
Bergen:
Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI); Utstein Anti-Corruption Resource Centre (U4)
(2006), 32 pp.
"As part of a broader analysis of corruption in emergencies, the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre initiated a dialogue on the role(s) of the media. On 30 May 2006, a working meeting held at NORAD offices in Oslo brought together donors, NGOs and journalists, including media practitioners from Sri ...
Access to information: building a culture of transparency. Jamaica
Atlanta:
Carter Center
(2006), vi, 150 pp., illustr., tables, bibliogr.
"In passing and implementing the Access to Information Act 2002, Jamaica has established a new and more open form of governance and accomplished what many other countries are still attempting. The Act, which provides citizens an enforceable right to official documents held by public authorities, is ...
Promoting democracy in postconflict societies
Boulder, Colo.; London:
Rienner
(2006), xii, 331 pp., tables, abbrev. p.291-298, bibliogr. p.299-309, index
"This study critically evaluates international democratization assistance in postconflict societies to discern what has worked, what has not, and how aid programs can be designed to have a more positive impact. The authors offer a unique recipient perspective as they explore three dimensions of demo...
African Media Development Initiative: Zambia. Research findings and conclusions
London:
BBC World Service Trust
(2006), 77 pp.
ISBN 1-906086-00-1
"The past five years have seen a mushrooming of media development organisations and media outlets. The period has also seen greater and better-coordinated civic activism in support of media development. There has generally been a diversity of media content, reflecting the plurality of media outlets....
Community radio for development: the world and Africa
Nairobi:
Paulines
(2006), 272 pp., bibliogr. p.267-272
ISBN 978-9966-08-124-7
"Community radio is best understood against the background of the other forms of broadcasting, namely public service, and commercial or private broadcasting. Unlike these, community broadcasting is not state-owned, but rather community-owned and managed. Neither is it aimed at profit-making, but at ...
Arabisches Satelliten-Nachrichtenfernsehen: Entwicklungsgeschichte, Strukturen und Folgen für die Konfliktberichterstattung aus dem Nahen und Mittleren Osten
Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft, volume 53, issue 44987 (2005), pp. 241-260
"Dieser Beitrag liefert einen Überblick über die Entwicklungsgeschichte und Strukturen der arabischen Satelliten-Nachrichtenfernsehsender Al-Jazeera, Abu Dhabi TV und Al-Arabiya sowie des arabischsprachigen US-Auslandsfernsehens Al-Hurra und fragt nach ihren Folgen für die Konfliktberichterstattu...
Handbuch Journalismus und Medien
Konstanz:
UVK
(2005), 500 pp.
ISBN 3-89669-429-4
"Ein Fachlexikon zum Journalismus, den Medien sowie den jeweiligen wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen und theoretischen Ansätzen legen die 3 an der Universität Hamburg arbeitenden Medienwissenschaftler zusammen mit 100 weiteren namhaften Autoren in 114 Beiträgen vor, die weitgehend nach bewährtem ...
Informing citizens: opportunities for media and communications in the Pacific
Canberra:
AusAID; MDI International; MC Media & Associates
(2005), x, 463 pp., abbrev. p.i-viii
"'Informing Citizens: opportunities for media and communications in the Pacific' reports on the findings of a situation analysis and needs assessment (SANA) of the capacity of the media, government and civil society to produce information on good governance in 14 Pacific Island Forum countries. The ...
"All successful democracies need freedom of speech": American efforts to create a vibrant free press in Iraq and Afghanistan
[Cambridge, Mass.]:
Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government Joan Shorenstein Center
(2005), 35 pp.
"This paper will examine American efforts to create a vibrant free press in Iraq and Afghanistan. A $200 million project in Iraq was the largest attempt ever by the United States, or any country, to help create independent media in another nation. Run by the Pentagon, it was a near total failure in ...
A comparative study on the media situation in Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria and Tunisia
Stockholm:
Olof Palme International Center; Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida)
(2005), 145 pp., 30 tables
"Media support should have a long term approach (3-5 years); media support should be framed to capacity building related to media production supporting development of media management targeting mainly women; development of producer skills and screenwriting targeting women and young people; developme...
Foreign aid to the media in Ukraine and its impact on the democratization process in the country
Athens, Ga.:
Master Thesis University of Georgia
(2005), 72 pp., illustr., 6 tables, bibliogr. p.61-63
"This study examines the impact of the international media assistance on the democratization of the press in Ukraine. Ukrainian government has been notorious for years for the suppression of the press and for censoring the content of the nation's media. Vital issues of the country, such as corruptio...
Transnational television worldwide: towards a new media order
London et al.:
Tauris
(2005), viii, 264 pp., tables, index
"This book is the first to offer a global perspective on the unique contemporary media phenomenon of transnational television channels. It is also the first to compare their impact in different regions of the globe. Revealing great richness and diversity across some of the world’s main geocultural...
War of words: conflict and freedom of expression in South Asia
London:
Article 19
(2005), 241 pp.
"This study considers the conflicts in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka, primarily looking at restrictions, highlighting similarities and differences and drawing some general conclusions about the ways in which authorities and combatants restrict freedom of expression. It also sets out international stand...
The media missionaries: American support for journalism exellence and press freedom around the globe
Miami:
Knight Foundation
(2004), 136 pp., illustr., direct. p.113-135
ISBN 0-9749702-2-0
"When the Communist barricades collapsed in 1989, hundreds of Americans rushed to Eastern Europe and the former Soviet republics to spread the gospel of democracy. Among them were some of America’s most altruistic journalists, who hoped to midwife a newly independent press. Since then, the U.S. go...
Comparing media systems: three models of media and politics
New York:
Cambridge University Press
(2004), xv, 342 pp., bibliogr. p.307-327, index
ISBN 978-0-521-83535-0 (hbk); 978-0-521-54308-8 (pbk); 978-0-511-21075-4 (ebook)
"This book proposes a framework for comparative analysis of the relation between the media and the political system. Building on a survey of media institutions in eighteen West European and North American democracies, Hallin and Mancini identify the principal dimensions of variation in media systems...
