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Media reform during Ethiopia’s political transition
Washington, DC:
Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA)
(2022), 8 pp.
"For most of its modern history, the news media in Ethiopia have been a tool for government control. But 2018 brought a wave of optimism to Africa’s second most populous nation. Anti-government protests forced the ruling Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) to undertake majo...
Media assistance in Burma’s reform decade
Washington, DC:
Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA)
(2022), 35 pp.
"Using the coup as a vantage point, interviewees for this report were asked to reflect on three main questions: What have we learned about past media reform efforts? With hindsight, what are the legacies, best practices, and lessons learned? With a view to the future, what does the media’s respons...
Media reform in Tunisia: a volatile process
Washington, DC:
Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA)
(2022), 25 pp.
"The halting progress of the Tunisian media reform reflects the uncertainty and vulnerability of the political reform. As Professor of Communication and Democracy Katrin Voltmer contends, emerging media systems are unique types that are a blend of inherited structures, the constraints of the transit...
Media reform during Ethiopia’s political transition
Washington, DC:
Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA)
(2022), 25 pp.
"The media reform process in Ethiopia’s political transition has made significant improvements to the policy, legal, and regulatory frameworks. If institutionalized and implemented with robust stakeholder engagement, the reform could help build a sustainable, vibrant, independent, and viable media...
Media reform in Tunisia: a volatile process
Washington, DC:
Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA)
(2022), 8 pp.
"President Saied’s moves to undermine constitutional governance and Tunisia’s parliament pose a major challenge for further media reforms. Yet, should the political environment prove enabling, foreign donors, media assistance organizations, and other stakeholders should prioritize working with l...
Sudan’s brief, fragile reform window (2019–2021)
Washington, DC:
Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA)
(2022), 32 pp.
Long-term investments pay dividends in Ukraine
Washington, DC:
Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA)
(2022), 27 pp.
"International assistance actors have played an important role in supporting media reforms in Ukraine. Their long-term, continuous efforts planted the seeds for groundbreaking media environment changes during Ukraine’s democratic transition. International donors’ sustained engagement in Ukraine ...
Principles for effective support to the media sector. Thirty-third session of the Intergovernmental Council of the International Programme for the Development of Communication, 24-25 November 2022, Item 10 of the provisional agenda
Paris:
UNESCO
(2022), 3 pp.
Other Editions: also published in French
"This document offers a summary of a broad-based process underway in the wider media development community to develop principles for effective support to the media sector, and its relevance for the work of the International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC). The document includes...
UNESCO's Multi-donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists (MDP) action in Peru: 2018-2021 quadrennial report, country summaries
Paris:
UNESCO
(2022), 4 pp.
"UNESCO organized several meetings with high-level representatives from the Peruvian government, including the judicial branch and the Prosecutor’s Office, along with civil society and media syndicates. This initiative also relied on cooperation with OHCHR and the Media Freedom Group, comprised of...
UNESCO's Multi-donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists (MDP) action in Somalia: 2018-2021 quadrennial report, country summaries
Paris:
UNESCO
(2022), 5 pp.
"Under the MDP, UNESCO has since 2018 coordinated actions with other development partners through the Somalia Media Sector Group (SMSG) to advocate for improvements in the media legislative framework and to support the implementation of the Somalia Federal Republic Media Strategy 2016-2020 as well a...
Long-term investments pay dividends in Ukraine
Washington, DC:
Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA)
(2022), 8 pp.
"Since gaining independence after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Ukraine has lurched along an unsteady path toward accountable democratic governance. Yet despite the country's volatile politics and the escalating conflict with Russia leading up to the full.scale invasion of Ukraine in ...
Explaining international media development: building blocks for an analytical framework based on institutional logics
Journal of applied journalism & media studies, volume 11, issue 2 (2022), pp. 141-161
"The academic study of media development as a field of practice and international cooperation has received quite some impetus in the last couple of years. Theory-building in this research field, however, seems to be stagnating. The explanatory power of established theories such as modernization, dep...
UNESCO's Multi-donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists (MDP) action in Burundi: 2018-2021 quadrennial report, country summaries
Paris:
UNESCO
(2022), 6 pp.
"Burundian authorities have shown promising signs of substantive change by initiating the revision of the disputed 2018 press law, an exercise for which they requested UNESCO’s technical support. UNESCO’s participation in this process was made possible by continuous dialogue between UNESCO and t...
UNESCO's Multi-donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists (MDP) action in Myanmar: 2018-2021 quadrennial report, country summaries
Paris:
UNESCO
(2022), 12 pp.
"The road to media freedom has been winding and narrow for Myanmar. Prior to the February 2021 military takeover, there had been guarded optimism that the country would soon enjoy freedom of expression and democratic principles. The country’s political reform process started in 2011, after 50 year...
Overcoming the peace journalism paradox: a case study in journalist training as media development aid
Journal of applied journalism & media studies, volume 11, issue 2 (2022), pp. 211-226
"Peace journalism (PJ), originally proposed by Johan Galtung as a set of ideational distinctions in representations of conflict, has served as the organizing principle for both scholarly research and practical application. Much of the latter has come through media development aid, generally taking t...
Influencing factors of ‘local’ conflict journalism and implications for media development: a critical appraisal
Journal of applied journalism & media studies, volume 11, issue 2 (2022), pp. 189-209
"When conflicts emerge the media often become, intended or not, a key actor. It is through media that every party within a conflict attempts to convey its own narrative, contributing to a complex reality that affects journalists’ work in many different ways. This article aims to reflect on Bläsi...
Transforming journalism in Vietnam: an exploration of two Swedish media aid projects
Journal of applied journalism & media studies, volume 11, issue 2 (2022), pp. 227-247
"In this article, I examine the development of journalism in Vietnam by exploring documentation from two media aid projects carried out by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) from 1993 until 2007. The project documents contain fieldnotes, evaluations and reflections from ...
UNESCO's Multi-donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists (MDP) action in Namibia: 2018-2021 quadrennial report, country summaries
Paris:
UNESCO
(2022), 3 pp.
"Namibia was thus added as a beneficiary country under the MDP in the second quarter of 2021, with the aim of reviewing the current draft bill and of increasing awareness on the right to access information by mobilizing government, civil society, and the Namibian public to take ownership and contrib...
UNESCO's Multi-donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists (MDP) action in Nigeria: 2018-2021 quadrennial report, country summaries
Paris:
UNESCO
(2022), 4 pp.
"Media and information literacy is paramount to empower the population, and especially the youth, with the capacity of critical thinking and in providing quality information on traditional and social media platforms. During the period of 2018-2021, UNESCO worked towards achieving this goal through t...
Media assistance in Burma’s reform decade
Washington, DC:
Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA)
(2022), 8 pp.
"Despite the grim outlook, media development efforts in Burma between 2010 and 2020 may be instructive not only for donors pondering the way forward, but also for media assistance efforts in other countries in transition. This report, part of the Center for International Media Assistance’s “Medi...
