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- Évaluation de l’appui aux médias en période électorale en Afrique subsaharienne. Synthèse du rapport (2013)
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IMS strategy on gender equality (2021-2023)
Copenhagen:
International Media Support (IMS)
(2021), 22 pp., glossary p.20-22
"The strategy presented in this document is the result of a year-long process of literature review and consultation with staff, partners, journalists and experts. A number of webinars for seminars and debates were organised, and several drafts were distributed and discussed. Consequently, this strat...
Code of practice
Brussels:
Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD)
(2021), 3 pp.
"This Code of Practice serves as a statement that GFMD members are committed to maintaining the highest standards of integrity, governance, financial transparency and accountability while furthering the GFMD’s mission. Adopting and adhering to this Code of Practice serves as an ethical charter for...
Feminist and gender perspectives in literature on media & development
Forum Medien und Entwicklung (fome); MEDAS21
(2021), 24 pp., bibliogr. p.21-23
ISSN 2748-9426
CC BY
"Gender remains an under-researched topic in the literature on media and development. A brief evaluation of seven books on media development and media for development shows that only 2% of pages are devoted to gender and feminist issues and that ‘gender’ and ‘women’ are often framed in narro...
Decoding media impact: insights, advice and recommendations
Inspiring practice
Philadelphia, Penns.:
Media Impact Funders
(2020), 31 pp.
"This guide is meant to serve as a practical resource for funders who want to understand where to start. Informed by feedback from our network, it represents a synthesis of the past seven years of work we’ve done in the impact space, and includes examples of successful media impact evaluation, too...
Wie ich lernte, die Welt im Radio zu erklären: von Radio Bremen zur Übersee-Brücke
Bremen:
Kellner Verlag
(2020), 359 pp.
ISBN 978-3-95651-265-0
"Als die Tonstudios, 1963, noch voll verkabelt sind, beginnt Klaus Jürgen Schmidt, sich durch die Strukturen der Öffentlich-Rechtlichen zu schlagen. Die biografische Erzählung ist ein Einblick hinter die Kulissen von Radio Bremen, aber auch in das Leben des Autors, der immer wieder für sein Idea...
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)
Let free media thrive: stories of impact of the multi-donor programme on freedom of expression and safety of journalists
Paris:
UNESCO
(2020), 19 pp.
"2019 has seen major achievements resulting from needs-based, and specifically-tailored support through the Multi-Donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists (MDP). Actions building on ongoing work and others opening new avenues, have initiated substantial changes in favour of...
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...
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...
Technical guidance for communication for development programmes addressing violence against children
New York:
UNICEF
(2019), 104 pp., 48 figures, 22 tables, bibliogr. p.78-81
ISBN 978-0-9911961-8-0
"This publication presents the basics of researching, planning, monitoring and evaluating Communication for Development (C4D) interventions, and offers guidance on how such interventions can be used to address violence against children (VAC). It covers the stages of the C4D programme cycle, emphasiz...
Making meaning of media development today
International journal of communication, volume 13 (2019), pp. 2437-2456
"This article aims to fill a gap in the academic literature on how employees at a media development intermediary construct meaning of their work. Based on in-depth interviews with 18 employees of Internews, this research shows that employees believe the organization has “evolved” from the past t...
Funding journalism, finding innovation: success stories and ideas for creative, sustainable partnerships
Philadelphia, Pa.:
Media Impact Funders; Politics and Public Policy Shorenstein Center on Media
(2018), 19 pp.
"While this guide shows only a small sampling of how funders and publishers are working together to financially sustain the fourth estate, we hope that it nonetheless serves as a starting point for your own work by providing solid examples of groundbreaking funding efforts—ones that are both pione...
Media constrained by context: international assistance and the transition to democratic media in the Western Balkans
Budapest:
Central European University Press
(2018), xiii, 346 pp., tables, bibliogr. p.299-333, index
ISBN 978-963-386-259-9
"This books draws a comparative balance of twenty years' international media assistance in the five countries of the Western Balkans. The central question was what happens to imported models when they are transposed onto the newly evolving media systems of transitional societies. Albania, Bosnia-Her...
An introduction to funding journalism and media
Ariadne - European Funders for Social Change and Human Rights
(2018), 43 pp.
"Section 1 summarises the background to and rationale for philanthropic funding of the media, including from a social justice and human rights perspective. This should help Ariadne grantmakers who are not sure if and why they should support media directly to make an informed decision, or to help mak...
Media assistance: review of the recent literature and other donors’ approaches
iMedia Associates; Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
(2017), 82 pp., abbrev. p.3, bibliogr. p.63-82
"The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) has commissioned iMedia Associates (iMedia) to conduct a Capitalisation Exercise (CapEx) of its media assistance, with the primary objective of examining its current programmes and bringing out lessons learned. As the second output of this CapE...
Annual plan 2017
Amsterdam:
Free Press Unlimited
(2017), 23 pp.
"With the growing scope of work and the persistent debate and discussion about news and information, both outside and inside the Netherlands, Free Press Unlimited needs to reposition itself and perhaps redirect the course of the organisation. 2017 will therefore be an interesting and challenging yea...
Annual plan 2016
Amsterdam:
Free Press Unlimited
(2016), 27 pp.
"2016 marks a new phase for Free Press Unlimited. The funding cycle of the Dutch Co-financing for development (MFS) ends in 2015. Free Press Unlimited was active in 5 alliances set up under that system, representing roughly one third of its annual turnover. In 2016 a new long term grant from the Dut...
The other air force: U.S. efforts to reshape Middle Eastern media since 9/11
New Brunswick, New Jersey, London:
Rutgers University Press
(2016), ix, 216 pp., illustr., bibliogr. p.191-198, index
ISBN 978-0-8135-7798-2
"As it seeks to win the hearts and minds of citizens in the Muslim world, the United States has poured millions of dollars into local television and radio programming, hoping to generate pro-American currents on Middle Eastern airwaves. However, as this fascinating new book shows, the Middle Eastern...
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...
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...
