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"This guide aims to equip media organisations and professionals with the necessary tools and insights to increase gender balance in their content. It should help you to: understand the importance of gender balance in content; identify the different ways in which the media gender stereotypes; underst
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"This handbook has been produced by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) to help media managers successfully manage diverse teams, with a focus on gender diversity. It is hoped that it will assist managers to be more gender 'aware' in their day to day management decisio
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Curbing Media, Crippling Debate: Soft Censorship in Bulgaria
Paris; Vienna: World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA); South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) (2016), 27 pp.
"The independence and pluralism of Bulgaria’s media has eroded steadily over the past decade. The downward spiral in media freedom that threatens to drown public debate on important policy issues is unrestrained since 2006, when the country was ranked 35th on the Reporters Without Borders Index. N
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WINning Strategies: Creating Stronger News Media Organizations by Increasing Gender Diversity
Paris: World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) (2016), 57 pp.
"The handbook seeks to shine a spotlight on media organisations that have prioritized gender equality within their organizations, leadership teams, and within their audience, and as a result, have seen a positive return. At best, we hope these stories inspire media to take concrete action to priorit
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Soft Censorship, Hard Impact: A Global Review
Paris; Washington, DC: World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA); Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2014), 29 pp.
"Official “soft censorship” (or “indirect government censorship”) describes an array of official actions intended to influence media output short of legal or extra-legal bans, direct censorship of specific content, or physical attacks on media outlets or media practitioners [...] A crucial f
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Press Freedom in Ethiopia
Vienna; Paris: International Press Institute (IPI); World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) (2013), 18 pp.
Online Comment Moderation: Emerging Best Practices
Darmstadt: World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) (2013), 77 pp.
"The news organisations that we spoke to could be broadly divided into two camps with regards to their attitudes to online comments: there are those who embrace comments from users, often as part of a wider strategy of involving their readers in their publication, and there are those who see them as
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Soft Censorship: Strangling Serbia’s Media
Paris: World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) (2013), 29 pp.
"The mechanisms of state media funding in Serbia are used as indirect, and usually not easily visible, “soft censorship.” Soft censorship is used to promote positive coverage of - and to punish media outlets that criticize - officials or their actions. State funding of media is unregulated, unmo
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Buying Compliance: Governmental Advertising and Soft Censorship in Mexico
Paris: World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) (2013), 47 pp.
"This report demonstrates the soft censorship and corrupting influence that unconstrained official advertising exerts on Mexico’s media. These practices negatively impact media quality, limit freedom of expression, violate the right to public information, and stifle public debate that is essential
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Capturing Them Softly: Soft Censorship and State Capture in Hungarian Media
Paris: World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) (2013), 51 pp.
"State capture is slowly but surely enveloping Hungarian media, principally through the “soft censorship” of financial incentives and influence that affect media otlets’ editorial content and economic viability. Allocation of state advertising spending is opaque and unfair; it is based on the
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Financially Viable Media in Emerging and Developing Markets: Kenya
Paris; Nairobi: World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA); African Media Initiative (AMI) (2012), 41 pp.
"Kenya has been the scene of sweeping technological innovations, but these have often benefited solely affluent urban and foreign markets. Poorly developed infrastructure and program design have delayed benefits for the broader Kenyan public. In addition, Kenya’s innovations have proven difficult
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"The capitalization gap for independent news media businesses in impact arguments to extend support to independent news media businesses. There are also convincing arguments that providing finance capital has a significant impact on independent media sustainability, as proven by recent successful pu
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Mobile Media Services at Sub-Saharan African Newspapers: A Guide to Implementing Mobile News and Mobile Business
Key Guidance
Paris: World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA); African Media Initiative (AMI) (2011), 81 pp.
"The handbook includes case studies gathered through interviews with newspapers in Uganda, Kenya and South Africa, including the Observer and Daily Monitor in Uganda, the Standard and the Daily Nation in Kenya, and Grocott’s Mail, the Mail and Guardian, the Sunday Times and the Sowetan in South Af
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Financially Viable Media in Emerging and Developing Markets
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Paris: World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA); African Media Initiative (AMI) (2011), 118 pp.
"This report investigates the relationships between media freedoms, financial sustainability of media in emerging markets, and international media support. It is based on a survey of more than 220 newspapers and media executives in more than sixty countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas,
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