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"This book represents one step in explaining international efforts to promote independent media. It attempts to examine the nature and significance of media assistance, discussing the evolution of the field, the focus of various programming approaches, and the possible impact of such efforts. It pre ... sents case studies of media assistance programs in different countries.The book concludes with a set of recommendations for expanding and deepening media assistance for the international community. This book project grew out of a multi-country study that I directed in 2002–2004 to examine media assistance programs funded by the US Agency for International Development. The overall purpose of the study was to assess the nature and effectiveness of USAID programs and make policy and programmatic recommendations for the future. In writing this book I have mostly drawn from the massive information collected during two years of research and analysis. The book is based primarily on three sources of information. First are reviews of literature covering scholarly writings, project and program documents, and articles in popular magazines and newspapers on media assistance. Such reviews were country specific as well as global in nature. Because the academic literature is extremely limited and media assistance is hardly covered in magazines and newspapers except in high-profile cases such as Bosnia and Serbia, reviews largely relied on program documentation. I had the unique advantage of perusing thousands of documents that are not available to the public. Although mostly descriptive and often self-serving, they identified critical gaps in our knowledge and illuminated the challenges and achievements of international media endeavors. Second, my colleagues and I undertook extensive fieldwork in seven countries/regions—Afghanistan, Bosnia, Central America, Indonesia, Russia, Serbia, and Sierra Leone. In each of these cases, research teams conducted extensive discussions with international donor agencies, officials of host countries, project staff and contractors, and local media experts and journalists. Every possible effort was made to interview all those experts and managers who had intimate knowledge of the ongoing media assistance programs. Teams also examined locally available documents and reports and used translators to translate documents into English when necessary. In the absence of hard quantitative data, they largely relied on available documentation, indepth interviews, and their own knowledge of the media scene for their findings and conclusions. Finally, I organized a series of meetings in Washington, D.C., to discuss the findings of the country studies and explore new directions for media assistance programs. Such meetings helped to identify many problems and challenges facing media assistance programs and helped in formulating a set of recommendation for policymakers." (Chapter 1, page 10-11) more

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Política, ética y comunicación

La Paz: PNUD; Prisma (2006), 174 pp.

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Indigenous Language Media in Africa

Abiodun Salawu (ed.)

Lagos: Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilization (CBAAC) (2006), xii, 398 pp.

"A collection of 22 papers on the indigenous language press (and other media) in Cameroon, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Uganda, and Zimbabwe, primarily devoted to the activities of African language newspapers and periodicals. Some papers examine the significant and pioneering role religious publications ... more

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Journalism and Democracy in Asia

Angela Romano, Michael Bromley (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2005), xiv, 205 pp.

"Journalism and Democracy in Asia addresses key issues of freedom, democracy, citizenship, openness and journalism in contemporary Asia, looking especially at China, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, the Philippines and India. The authors take varying approaches to questions of democracy, whilst also conside ... more

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Télévisions arabes sur orbite: Un système médiatique en mutation (1960-2004)

Tourya Guaaybess

Paris: CNRS (2005), 264 pp.

"Alors que les pays du monde arabe subissent les effets d’une instabilité politique, l’intérêt ou les inquiétudes qu’ils suscitent en Occident ont permis au grand public de découvrir les chaînes satellitaires de la région, dont la plus connue est sans nul doute Al-Jazeera. Mais quel est ... more

The Media and Zimbabwe

Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, volume 2 (2005), pp. 1-135

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Democratizing Global Media: One World, Many Struggles

Robert A. Hackett, Yuezhi Zhao (eds.)

Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield (2005), 328 pp.

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Ética, prensa y democracia: Seminario

Lima: Universidad de Lima, Fondo Editorial (2005), 79 pp.

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Fight the Power: The Role of the Serbian Independent Electronic Media in the Democratization of Serbia

Spasa Bosnjak

Burnaby, BC: Simon Fraser University, School of Communication, Master Thesis (2005), 123 pp.

"This thesis presents the major contributions of the Serbian independent electronic media to the struggle for the democratization of Serbia throughout the 1990s. The thesis also examines some aspects of the transformation of the media in Eastern Europe in the 1990s and outlines several different the ... more

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Africa's Media, Democracy and the Politics of Belonging

Francis B. Nyamnjoh

London; Pretoria: Zed Books; UNISA Press (2005), 308 pp.

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Medios de comunicación y democracia

Enrique E. Sánchez Ruiz

Bogotá: Grupo Editorial Norma (2005), 133 pp.

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Empowering the Media Sector in Hebron: Training Kit on Community Media. Theoretical Unit

Hebron: International Palestinian Youth League (IPYL) (2005), 86 pp.

"The aim of this training manual is to introduce the basic concepts of journalism and its evolution in a way that the readers understand and acknowledge the responsibility of the task of informing the citizens. This manual aims to be a tool to strengthen community media as a way to the empowerment o ... more

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Making Journalists: Diverse Models, Global Issues

Hugo de Burgh

London: Routledge (2005), 296 pp.

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The South African Print Media: From Apartheid to Transformation

Hilton Robert Kolbe

Wollongong (AU): University of Wollongong, Doctoral Thesis (2005), 293 pp.

"This thesis considers the role of the mainstream South African print media in perpetuating discrimination during the years of legalised racial discrimination – commonly known as apartheid – from when the Herenigde Nationale Party took power in May 1948 with an unprecedented 28-seat swing under ... more

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Rede Globo: 40 anos de poder e hegemonia

Valério Cruz Brittos, César Ricardo Siqueira Bolaño (eds.)

São Paulo: Paulus (2005), 373 pp.

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Democracia en Bolivia: Cinco análisis temáticos del segundo estudio nacional sobre democracia y valores democráticos

Álvaro García Linera, Raúl España Cuéllar, Andrés Torrez Villa Gómez, Erick Torrico Villanueva, Amalia Prado Meza

La Paz: Corte Nacional Electoral (2005), 228 pp.

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Post-Communist Media Development in Perspective

Karol Jacubowicz

Bonn: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2005), 16 pp.

"Press freedom provides both the oxygen of democracy and the laughing gas of infotainment and commercial exploitation. This has been something of a shocking discovery to make for people in Central and Eastern Europe. When they were trying to imagine, and plan for, a new media order once the Communis ... more

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Die Genese des palästinensischen Rundfunksystems und die deutsch-palästinensische Zusammenarbeit im audiovisuellen Bereich mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Radio- und Fernsehprojektes der Bir Zeit University: Der Beitrag deutsch-palästinensischer Kooperation im Radio- und Fernsehbereich für die Entwicklung des demokratischen Prozesses und den Aufbau der Zivilgesellschaft Palästinas

Jamal Nazzal

Bochum: Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Fakultät für Philosophie, Pädagogik und Publizistik, Doctoral Thesis (2005), 381, 76 pp.

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