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Evidence, Messages, Change! An Introductory Guide to Successful Advocacy
New York; London: Open Society Institute; Open Society Foundation (2010), 24 pp.
"This guide outlines important, basic steps to ensure that your advocacy is as effective as possible. It draws on learning within the Open Society Foundations’ network, especially the experiences of our advocacy colleagues, as well as resources from other organizations. Understanding of and engage
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Winning the Web: Stories of Grassroots Campaigning for Access to Knowledge in the Networked Digital Age
Open Society Institute (2009), 49 pp.
"This report has looked at six successful intellectual property (IP) reform campaigns from around the world, and examined the strategies, messages and goals of the campaigners who fought them. Although each example has its own lessons to share, broad trends have emerged. Several of the most striking
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"Attempts to Influence": Survey of Perceptions of Albanian Journalists
New York: Open Society Institute (2009), 5 pp.
"The following text examines the freedom of the press in Albania from the subjective perspective of journalists. It does not discuss individual cases, or provide statistics on violence against journalists, but it does reveal how journalists felt affected by different political actors and events duri
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El precio del silencio: Abuso de publicidad oficial y otras formas de censura indirecta en América Latina
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Buenos Aires; New York: Asociación por los Derechos Civiles (ADC); Open Society Institute (2008), 191 pp.
"El precio del silencio' revela una tendencia creciente en varios países de América Latina: la interferencia “tras bambalinas” que ejercen los gobiernos sobre los medios de comunicación y la independencia editorial. Esta “censura sutil” y sus continuos efectos inhibitorios aún no han rec
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Learning to Listen: A Manual for Oral History Projects
London; New York: Panos; Open Society Institute (2008), 174 pp.
The Price of Silence: The Growing Threat of Soft Censorship in Latin America
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Buenos Aires; New York: Asociación por los Derechos Civiles (ADC); Open Society Institute (2008), 179 pp.
"The Price of Silence exposes a growing trend across several countries in Latin America: behind-the-scenes government interference with media freedom and editorial independence. This “soft censorship” and its pervasive chilling effects have not received the attention they deserve. By conducting
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Donors and Media Development: Reports from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe
New York: Open Society Institute (2007), 140 pp.
Transparency and Silence: A Survey of Access to Information Laws and Practices in Fourteen Countries
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New York: Open Society Institute (2006), 188 pp.
"This report records and analyzes the results of a study in which partners of the Justice Initiative in 14 countries filed a total of 1,926 requests for information. In each country, seven different requesters twice submitted up to 70 questions to 18 public institutions. Requesters included NGOs, jo
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Open Access Publishing and Scholary Societies: A Guide
New York: Open Society Institute (2005), 34 pp.
"This guide has a limited scope. It is meant to help scholarly societies – and small publishers – assess the options available to them for the future of their journal publishing programmes. Though the option of keeping the status quo of subscription-based journals is discussed, the focus is on c
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Covering Oil: A Reporter's Guide to Energy and Development
New York: Open Society Institute (2005), 156 pp.
"Over the last two years, the Initiative for Policy Dialogue and Revenue Watch, working with local partners and other sponsors, have organized workshops for journalists in the oil-exporting countries of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Nigeria on the subject of “Covering Resource Wealth.” This book i
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Monitoring Election Campaign Finance: A Handbook for NGOs
New York: Open Society Institute (2005), 176 pp.
Follow the Money: A Guide to Monitoring Budgets and Oil and Gas Revenues
New York: Open Society Institute (2004), 84 pp.
Guide to Business Planning for Launching a New Open Access Journal
New York: Open Society Institute, 2nd ed. (2003), 66 pp.
The Difficult Birth of the Fourth Estate: Media Development and Democracy Assistance in the Post-Conflict Balkans
In: Reinventing Media: Media Policy Reform in East-Central Europe
Budapest: Central European University Press; Open Society Institute (2003), pp. 115-135
"The objective of this document is to outline a framework for a communication policy (content regulation) that can tackle portrayal and representation issues. The main obstacle in the way to do sensible content regulation concerning stereotyped representations is that these portrayals perform their
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