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Syria Crisis: Humanitarian Information Needs Assessment - Zaatari Refugee Camp, Jordan

Jacobo Quintanilla

Arcata, Calif.; London: Internews (2012), 17 pp.

"Internews surveyed more than 120 Syrian refugees in Zaatari camp, asking a set of 30 questions about information needs, sources, and trust levels. Additionally, 20 in-depth key informant interviews were conducted with humanitarian workers and media professionals in Jordan and in Beirut, Lebanon. As ... more

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The Wanakonnect Pilot Project: Using Mobile Money to Create a Revenue System for Local Radio Stations in Kenya

Angela Crandall, Leonida Mutuku

Arcata, Calif.; Washington, DC: Internews (2012), 66 pp.

"The community radio stations participating in the pilot project offer special dedication and greeting programs that allow community members to send greetings to friends and family on air. The main objective of this pilot was to understand whether these generally underfunded radio stations could mon ... more

Factually True, Legally Untrue: Political Media Ownership in Kenya

Othieno Nyanjom

Internews (2012), 83 pp.

"This report finds that while media ownership is sometimes obvious, media owners often use their spouse, parents or trusted friends to register their media outlets, making it difficult to obtain clear data on media ownership. For instance, the researcher notes that the connection of presidential can ... more

Media and Global Health: From Information to Action

Washington, DC; Arcata, Calif.: Internews (2012), 12 pp.

Deciphering User-Generated Content in Transitional Societies: A Syria Coverage Case Study

Juliette Harkin, Kevin Anderson, Libby Morgan, Briar Smith

Washington, DC: Internews; Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) Annenberg School for Communication (2012), 40 pp.

"The objective of this study is to look at how two prominent Arab-language news organisations, BBC Arabic and Al Jazeera Arabic (AJA), have used social media and user-generated content — photos, videos and comments — to provide coverage of the uprising in Syria. Due to the unique pressures in co ... more

A Story a Day...: The Media as a Preventive Tool in Public Health. A Legacy Assessment of Internews' Health Journalism Program in Kenya and its Impact on the Media, the Public Health Sector and the Audience

Callie Long

Washington, DC; Arcata, Calif.: Internews (2012), 69 pp.

"Guided by two overarching questions – do people want or need health news, and are they satisfied with the health news available to them – Internews used a mixed methods approach, conducting surveys, focus group discussions and in-depth interviews, as well as mining years of project data and rep ... more

When Information Saves Lives: Internews Humanitarian Information Projects. 2011 Annual Report

Jacobo Quintanilla, Lizzie Goodfriend

Arcata, Calif.; Washington, DC; Paris; London: Internews; Internews Europe (2012), 77 pp.

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Overview Report: Measuring Media Development

Sanjukta Roy

Washington, DC: Internews; World Bank Institute (2011), 16 pp.

"The Media Map Project is investigating the relationships between media and development, and analyzing the impact of media development assistance in specific contexts. The project undertakes a three-pronged approach. Part 1, Quantifying Media is an extensive quantitative analysis of macro data, appl ... more

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Building New Media Institutions in the MENA Region: Summary Report

Cynthia Wong

Philadelphia, PA: Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) Annenberg School for Communication; Internews (2011), 19 pp.

Communication in Crisis: Assessing the Impact of Mayardit FM Following the May 2011 Abyei Emergency

Nina McMurry

Turalei, Warrap State (SS): Internews (2011), 21 pp.

Starting a Local Radio Station: A Manual for Afghanistan

Parisa Saadatmand-Zitouni (comp.)

Arcata, Calif.lif.; Washington, DC; Kabul: Internews; USAID; Pact (2011), 100 pp.

"This manual describes the process for starting a local radio station—the organization of community support and planning, equipment needs, programming strategies, business growth and sustainability and journalistic ethics and standards. This manual does not insist that you follow a set of rules to ... more

Rethinking Media Development

Mark Nelson, Tara Susman-Peña

Arcata, Calif.; Washington, DC: Internews; World Bank Institute (2011), 26 pp.

"The international development community needs to spend less time training journalists and more time on efforts to build country level leadership for a strong and independent media as a key institution of development. This means longer-term programs, facilitating carefully planned and rigorous appro ... more

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Light in the Darkness: Internews Radio in Southern Sudan and the Three Areas. Findings of Community Impact Assessment

Sonya De Masi

Internews (2011), 126 pp.

"This report offers an overview of results of an assessment that sought to investigate the audience impact of Internews’ network of five FM radio stations in southern Sudan and two transitional areas that were established to provide their communities with critical information about the peace agree ... more

Dadaab, Kenya: Humanitarian Communications and Information Needs Assessment Among Refugees in the Camps. Findings, Analysis & Recommendations

Arcata, Calif.; Washington, DC: Internews (2011), 80 pp.

"Serious communication gaps between the humanitarian sector and refugees in Dadaab, Kenya, are increasing refugee suffering and putting lives at risk. There are clear indications that these information gaps are hampering the aid response and that despite important efforts from individual agencies, c ... more

Political and Media Transitions in Egypt: A Snapshot of Media Policy and Regulatory Environment

Toby Mendel

Internews (2011), 23 pp.

Mapping Donor Decision Making on Media Development: An Overview of Current Monitoring and Evaluation Practice

Jason Alcorn, Amy Chen, Emma Gardner, Hiro Matsumoto

Arcata, Cal.; Washington, DC: Internews; Media Map Project; World Bank Institute (2011), 21 pp.

"This report maps the evolution of evaluation and donor decision making in media development over the last two decades. Through interviews with media development donors, implementers and academics, we examine major donor perspectives on monitoring and evaluation (M&E), the main challenges within med ... more

Political and Media Transitions in Tunisia: A Snapshot of Media Policy and Regulatory Environment

Joan Barata Mir

Internews (2011), 17 pp.

Social Change and the Russian Network Society: Redefining Development Priorities in New Information Environments

Josh Machleder, Gregory Asmolov

Arcata, Calif.; Washington, DC: Internews (2011), 27 pp.

"This paper explores the use of new information technologies in Russia to examine the next generation of media development and to ask how the ability of the “network society” – and the new forms of collective action it allows to contribute to social change can be supported. Building on the ide ... more