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Investigative journalism in grassroots independent print media in South Africa: a baseline study of the Eastern Cape, Mpumalanga and Limpopo

Eastern Cape Communication Forum (ECCF); Association of Independent Publishers (AIP); Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2013), 20 pp.

"In summary, the findings show that more than half of the analysed newspapers do in fact seek to expose potential wrong doings of government and business and as such are important actors in promoting local accountability. Yet, the findings also show that a lot of the reporting is not as extensive, a... more

News and how to use it: what to believe in a fake news world

Alan Rusbridger

Edinburgh: Canongate Books (2021), 316 pp., bibliogr. p.259-316

ISBN 978-1-838885-443-0

"People everywhere feel ever more alienated from - and mistrustful of - news and those who make it. We no longer seem to know who or what to believe. We are living through a crisis of "information chaos". 'News: And How to Use It' is a glossary for this bewildering age. From AI to bots, from climate... more

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Freedom of expression and the internet

Wolfgang Benedek; Matthias C. Kettemann

Strasbourg: Council of Europe (2013), 190 pp., bibliogr. p.173-190

ISBN 978-92-871-7702-5

Other Editions: Updated and revised 2nd edition 2020, 240 p.

"This book sets out to answer essential questions regarding the extent and limits of freedom of expression online. It seeks to shed light on the often obscure landscape of what we are allowed to say online and how our ideas, and the process of imparting and receiving information, are protected. It s... more

Handbook for constructive journalism

Kristina Lund Jørgensen; Jakob Risbro

Arhus; Copenhagen: Constructive Institute (CI); International Media Support (IMS) (2021), 23 pp.

"The theory and practice of constructive journalism is based on the following three-pillar model developed by the CI, which is seen to ensure journalism's contribution to democracy: focus on solutions: do not only expose the problems, but also look for possible solutions; cover nuances: strive for t... more

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Monitoring and evaluation of policy influence and advocacy

London: Overseas Development Institute (2014), iii, 70 pp., 14 figures, 16 tables, bibliogr. p.64-70

ISSN 1759-2917 CC BY-NC

"Policy influence and advocacy are increasingly regarded as a means of creating sustainable policy change in international development. It is often also seen as a difficult area to monitor and evaluate. Yet there is an increasingly rich strand of innovation in options to monitor, evaluate and learn ... more

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Building commitment to reform through strategic communication: the five key decisions

Cecilia Cabañero-Verzosa; Helen Garcia

Washington, DC: World Bank (2009), xiii, 133 pp., illustr., tables, index

ISBN 978-0-8213-7621-8 (print); 978-0-8213-7622-5 (ebook) CC BY

"The Five Communication Management Decision Tool helps reformers and their teams develop a framework for their communication strategies. This decision tool helps managers see change initiatives through the eyes of those who will be affected by the reforms. When the decision tool is used in the early... more

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Audience responses to migration stories: research component of 'Voices of African migrants'

Jessica Noske-Turner; Mirjam Twigt; Zakaria Sajir

Leicester; Copenhagen: University of Leicester; International Media Support (IMS) (2018), 46 pp.

ISBN 978-0-9933380-9-0 CC BY-NC

"This report was commissioned to examine the nature and quality of media stories produced by journalists supported by the Voices of African Migrants pilot programme (see http://migrantvoices.org/), managed by International Media Support (IMS), in four migration ‘Hubs’ in Africa, and explored how... more

Financing independent media: a global challenge
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Mediation: biannual publication of Fondation Hirondelle, volume 0, issue 9 (2022), 6 pp.

"The evolution of media towards mainly digital platforms has provoked a long crisis in their financing, often resulting in them being absorbed into large industrial groups seeking political influence. In the North as in the South, economic models for independent news and information need to be reinv... more

Alternative and activist media

Mitzi Waltz

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2005), x, 149 pp., 8 illustr., bibliogr. p.143-146, web direct. p.147, index

ISBN 0-7486-1957-7 (hbk); 0-7486-1958- 5 (pbk)

"Chapter 1 defines ‘alternative and activist media’, and considers the need for non-mainstream publications. It introduces the populations who seek out or create alternative media: socially marginalised or dissenting groups, subcultures and others who inhabit liminal spaces, and people who want ... more

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The unfreedom monitor: Brazil country report

Laís Martins

Advox (2022), 19 pp.

CC BY

"Under the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil, Latin America's largest democracy, has seen unprecedented increases in threats to citizens’ fundamental rights. Digital rights have not been an exception. Technoauthoritarianism in Brazil must be viewed as a multifaceted development and one that is ... more

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Long-term investments pay dividends in Ukraine

Antonina Cherevko; Maksym Dvorovyi

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2022), 27 pp.

"International assistance actors have played an important role in supporting media reforms in Ukraine. Their long-term, continuous efforts planted the seeds for groundbreaking media environment changes during Ukraine’s democratic transition. International donors’ sustained engagement in Ukraine ... more

Let the net work: internet shutdowns in India 2022

New Delhi: SFLC (2022), 48 pp.

CC BY-NC-SA

"The observations made in this report make emphatically clear the failings of the current legal framework in defending human rights in the context of access to the internet. As seen in the report, the disruption of access to the internet is triggered at the most menial of instances, including for re... more

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Mozilla Fellowships and Awards Program: evaluation and impact narrative. An evaluation of Mozilla’s Fellowships & Awards program strategy and impact from the beginning of 2016 through mid-2020

Ayana Byrd; Kenrya Rankin

Mozilla Foundation (2021), 128 pp.

CC BY-NC-SA

"This evaluation is an analysis of the Mozilla Foundation’s grantmaking and fellowship work led by the F&A team from the beginning of 2016 through mid-2020. It seeks to understand: 1) the impacts of the programs on individual funding recipients and organizational partners, on the issues the progra... more

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Ugandan women online: a quantitative survey on digital literacy in Uganda

Pollicy; Internews (2018), 21 pp.

"We found that knowledge around digital security amongst women in Kampala is quite low. A high proportion of women have been victims of cyberbullying without any obvious routes to seeking justice against perpetrators. There is an urgency for law enforcement and government to hand down stricter penal... more

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Community media: local is focal

Nitin Paranjape

Community development journal, volume 42, issue 4 (2007), pp. 459-469

"Given the limited nature of global media with its emphasis on ‘infotainment’ driven by commerce, it has very little role in community development. We see the alarming and growing impact of the global media on the socio-cultural life of different communities in India. The rampaging growth of cen... more

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Online supplement to working paper 2018.1. Challenging truth and trust: a global inventory of organized social media manipulation

Samantha Bradshaw; Philip N. Howard

Oxford: Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford; Computational Propaganda Research Project (2018), 81 pp.

CC BY-NC-SA

"These are the background case notes complied for MEMO 2018.1: Challenging Truth and Trust: A Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation. For details on the methods behind this content analysis please see the methodology section of the report. This document contains data from over 500 s... more

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Collective memory: visual perspectives from Cameroon, Germany, Ghana, Kenya & South Africa

Ebenezar Acquah; Paul-Henri Souvenir Assako Assako; Patrique deGraft-Yankson; Mary Clare Kidenda; Nicola Pauli; Avi Sooful (eds.)

München: kopaed; Exploring Visual Cultures project (2022), 160 pp.

ISBN 978-3-96848-068-8

"The exhibition focuses on how young people envision their identities in their respective countries: what mental images do they collectively have about their life experiences. Thus, this project seeks to present collective memories from different parts of the world in an exhibition that will promote... more

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NGOs and 'modernization' and 'democratization' of media

James Miller

Global media and communication, volume 5, issue 1 (2009), pp. 9-33

"Western-supported media assistance in transition and developing countries has a long history. Building independent media, preferably through the nongovernmental sector, is seen as an important aspect of achieving mondernization and democratization. This article questions the idealized assumptions u... more

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"These grey areas": how and why freelance work blurs INGOs and news organizations

Kate Wright

Journalism studies, volume 17, issue 8 (2015), pp. 989-1009

"International non-governmental organizations (INGOs) are known to employ freelancers to produce multimedia and to pitch it for them to mainstream news outlets. So it seems odd that research about the blurring of news organizations and INGOs has been largely focused upon the practices of full-time s... more

Thirty rising media markets 2016

Anne Austin; Jonathan Barnard; Nicola Hutcheon

London: ZenithOptimedia (2016), 51 pp.

"The markets we do include are a very diverse bunch, from the very closed and politically tightly controlled such as Laos; through a large number of nations on the African continent which have seen a sudden improvement in digital infrastructure thanks to the landing of several new submarine intercon... more

Financing independent media: a global challenge Inspiring practice

Financing independent media: a global challenge
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