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Jordan Media Assessment. White Paper: Impediments on Professional Journalism, Media Education and Media Literacy

USAID;Management Systems International (MSI) (2020), 22 pp.

"The main purpose of this White Paper is to highlight major findings from the two studies conducted within the scope of the USAID Jordan Media Assessment (JMA), specifically, the Media Landscape Analysis and the Digital Media Sector Assessment, and to respond to several additional questions grouped ... more

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Final Report. Jordan Media Assessment: Media Landscape Analysis

USAID;Management Systems International (MSI) (2020), 98 pp.

"The Media Landscape Analysis is Component I of the Jordan Media Assessment, a comprehensive review of the media sector in Jordan. Based on a thorough desk review of existing research on Jordan’s media scene, it focuses on the legal framework, political will and economic context that affect the wo ... more

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Jordan Media Assessment. White Paper: The Role of Media in Reinforcing Positive Gender Norms and Transforming Gender Relations

USAID;Management Systems International (MSI) (2020), 20 pp.

"To attain gender equality as a long-term objective, a multi-layered strategy and action is required. In that process, media are a part of the problem, as well as they are a part of the solution. While it has been well established that media organizations can play an influential role in contributing ... more

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Jordan Media Assessment: Executive Summary and Recommendations

USAID;Management Systems International (MSI) (2020), 15 pp.

"Implemented between January-March 2020, the Jordan Media Assessment (JMA) aims to provide an overview of the media landscape in Jordan, with a specific focus on how digital media impact Jordan’s democratic development. The findings will assist USAID/Jordan to determine the broader needs of the me ... more

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USAID’s Access to Information Program (A2I) in Central Asia, Implemented by Internews: Final Report, October 1, 2014 - September 30, 2019

Washington, DC: USAID;Internews (2020), 102 pp.

"The Access to Information Program (A2I) was a five-year Central Asia regional program funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented by Internews under Cooperative Agreement 176-14-00005 from October 1, 2014 to September 30, 2019. During the first phase of ... more

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The Role of the Media in Peacebuilding in Yemen

Fatima Saleh, Scott Preston, Mareike Transfeld

Bonn: Center for Applied Research in Partnership with the Orient (CARPO) (2020), 15 pp.

"The increased political capture of the Yemeni media since 2014 has reinforced diverging political discourses and has contributed to polarization across society and to political fragmentation. Content of newspapers, television and online platforms has further eroded journalistic standards through th ... more

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Cultural and Creative Industries Supporting Activities in Sub-Saharan Africa: Mapping and Analysis

Pedro Affonso Ivo Franco, Kimani Njogu

Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2020), 104 pp.

"Over the last 20 years, the power of cultural and creative industries (CCIs) as enablers and drivers of sustainable development has been broadly recognised. They are viewed as critical to social cohesion, social and economic transformation, and political stability. For this reason, it is important ... more

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Media Viability in the CORAPE Network

Patricio Cerón Llive, Jorge Guachamín

Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie;Coordinadora de Radios Populares y Educativas del Ecuador (CORAPE) (2020), 33 pp.

"The Coordinadora de Medios Comunitarios, Populares y Educativos de Ecuador (CORAPE) is the biggest network of community media in Ecuador, and since 2016 has been the main partner of DW Akademie in that South American country. Between 2016 and 2019 the two organizations implemented a project finance ... more

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Google, the Media Patron: How the Digital Giant Ensnares Journalism

Alexander Fanta, Ingo Dachwitz

Frankfurt am Main: Otto Brenner Stiftung (2020), 124 pp.

"The study shows that the data giant’s rise to become a patron of the media began in France, where, responding to political pressure, it set up a 60-million-euro fund to support press publishers’ innovation projects in 2013. The French fund was the blueprint for the Digital News Initiative (DNI) ... more

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Multi-Donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists: Annual Report, 2019

Paris: UNESCO (2020), 163 pp.

"This progress report presents the main findings and achievements of a self-evaluation exercise conducted by the responsible UNESCO project officers at Headquarters and in the relevant Field Offices." (Page 3)

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Biljana Tatomir, Enrico de Angelis, Maryia Sadouskaya-Komlach

International Media Support (IMS) (2020), 64 pp.

"The Syrian independent exile media as a sector is at the core of this study. To understand the unique nature of this sector, the study contextualises the issues pertaining to the Syrian independent exile media in the wider framework of exile media globally, and donors’ approaches to media develop ... more

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Is Media Assistance Obsolete? A Practice-Based Perspective on the Potential for Digital Technologies to Achieve Media Development Goals in Sub-Saharan Africa

Daire Higgins

Dublin: Technological University Dublin, Doctoral Thesis (2020), 417 pp.

"This thesis examines the impact on the Media Assistance sector of the arrival of digital technologies into the ‘information ecosystems’ in which it operates. Whereas historically in Media Assistance, broadcast media and the press have been the preferred (or available) media for achieving develo ... more

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Philippines: Initiative for Media Freedom

Internews (2020), 2 pp.

"The Initiative for Media Freedom (IMF) is a five-year program implemented by Internews and funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) with the support of the American people. Internews and its partners work collaboratively to enhance democratic governance that provides ... more

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Evaluation of the Regional Independent Media Support Programme: Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras, 2017–2019

Marko Lehto

Helsinki: Vikes Finnish Foundation for Media and Development (2020), 59 pp.

"Taking into account the actual situation in the region, the support that VIKES provides for independent journalism is more urgent than ever. Journalists in the region are facing unprecedented challenges, from declining revenues, a broken business model and a new form of censorship, threats to journ ... alists’ safety and misinformation campaigns. In these conditions, the work that VIKES has been doing in the region has been relevant and successful. It has promoted the right of civil society to information and the right of media to freedom of expression. Activities that were planned in the programme document on the defense of fundamental rights to exercise free speech and democracy were implemented, and positive results were achieved. All the partner organizations have strengthened the exercise of democracy through digital media and investigative journalism, promoting citizen participation in public policies and improving the open-access and right to information. Networking and cooperation between independent media, journalists and CSOs are more reliable than ever in the region, and a new concept of collaborative journalism was introduced with positive results. VIKES supported media and independent journalists in producing high-quality information and investigative stories, supporting them to attract wider audiences. Training in business development, marketing and effective management was organised by the programme, and the financial sustainability of partners was improved. Even so, the independent media in the region is still dependent on external funding and will be, until the political situation in the region will improve. To be more effective and to improve the effectiveness of the Regional Independent Media Support Programme in the future, VIKES should increase the number of the partners and independent media representatives (also those currently exiled) to receive support from the programme. The main problem of independent public media remains the lack of financing and security. In a meeting with independent journalists in Nicaragua, where the government has threatened to continue to imprison journalists and publicly insults media professionals, they underlined the importance of solidarity networks among international organizations and press associations. According to them, VIKES has done bold work, and its efforts have supported the professionals who remain to practice “survival journalism” and need all the backing to continue to inform the population." (Executive summary, page 7-8) more

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Ländervergleich Onlinemedienförderung: Ergänzungsbericht. Bericht zuhanden des Bundesamts für Kommunikation

Manuel Puppis, Stefano Pedrazzi

Freiburg (CH): Universität Freiburg, Schweiz, Departement für Kommunikationswissenschaft und Medienforschung (DCM) (2020), 67 pp.

"Direkte Förderung: In Dänemark, Italien, Kanada, Luxemburg, Norwegen und Schweden existiert eine direkte Produktionsförderung für textbasierten Onlinejournalismus, in Finnland zumindest eine für Publikationen in Minderheitensprachen, in Frankreich für Lokalmedien. Eine wirklich konvergente di ... more

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Annual Report 2019

Lausanne: Fondation Hirondelle (2020), 30 pp.

"In 2019, Fondation Hirondelle defined a new strategy for the years to come, following discussions with its employees, management, Board and partners. This strategy focuses on strengthening collaboration with our local partners, particularly for the co-production of content; on our ability to respon ... more

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The Role of Media in Creating Inclusive, Just and Peaceful Societies: Guidelines for SDC Media Assistance

Bern: Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) (2020), 41 pp.

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IPDC Financial Situation

Paris: UNESCO (2020), 34 pp.

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Evaluating Academic and Media Nongovernmental Organization Partnerships for Participatory Data Gathering

Emma Heywood, Beatrice Ivey, Sacha Meuter

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 ... more

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Needs Assessment of Independent Media in the Neighbourhood: A Summary of the Report Produced for the European Commission’s DG NEAR

Marek Bekerman, Michael Randall, Monir Zaarour et al.

Manchester: University of Salford (2020), 19 pp.

"This summary presents the top-level findings of an eight-month research project aimed at assessing the needs of independent media in the EU Neighbourhood (East and South). The study was carried out by four international experts who visited 11 of the 16 partner countries and conducted interviews wit ... more

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