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Supporting media viability in the Americas: towards sustainable journalism

Ramiro Álvarez Ugarte

Centro de Estudios en Libertad de Expresión y Acceso a la Información (CELE) (2022), 25 pp.

"While the Internet has offered the world unparalleled access to information, journalism as an industry is in crisis […] especially in Latin America, the possibility of making a living out of the desire to tell stories is increasingly shrinking. Media outlets suffer from the migration of private a... more

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The price of silence: the growing threat of soft censorship in Latin America

Buenos Aires; New York: Asociación por los Derechos Civiles (ADC); Open Society Institute (2008), 179 pp.

ISBN 978-1-891385-83-4

Other Editions: also published in Spanish

"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 ... more

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Violence and trolling on social media: history, affect, and effects of online vitriol

Sara Polak; Daniel Trottier (eds.)

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2020), 266 pp.

ISBN 978-94-6298-948-1 (print); 978-90-4854-204-8 (pdf) CC BY-NC-ND

"Various terms are in use to describe violent, bullying, demeaning, or otherwise antagonistic expressions on social media platforms. Hate speech is common, but also not limited to the online world. While it does signal that these expressions are speech acts, and therefore, as we maintain, performati... more

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The war correspondent

Greg McLaughlin

London: Pluto Press (2016) 2nd ed., x, 267 pp., index, bibliogr. p.245-258

ISBN 9780745333199 (hbk); 9780745333182 (pbk); 9781783717583 (pdf)

Other Editions: 1st ed. 2002

"This book has presented a critical, historically grounded analysis of the role of the war correspondent. It has highlighted the risks, the problems and the failures that have defined the role but it has also given credit where that is due and acknowledged the inspirational example of correspondents... more

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Cultural revolution in Iran: contemporary popular culture in the Islamic Republic

Annabelle Sreberny; Massoumeh Torfeh

London; New York: Tauris (2017) new paperback ed., xiv, 287 pp., illustr., index

ISBN 978-1-78453-513-1

Other Editions: 1st ed. 2013

"Despite the repressive power of the current regime the immense creativity of popular cultural practices, that negotiate and resist a repressive system, is a potent and dynamic force. This book draws on the expertise and experience of Iranian and international academics and activists to address dive... more

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Fair use for nonfiction authors: common scenarios with guidance from community practice

Brianna L. Schofield; Robert Kirk Walker

Authors Alliance (2017), 99 pp., index

CC BY

"Nonfiction authors often use existing materials in their works: A historian excerpts a soldier’s letters to a loved one; an art critic reproduces a telling detail in a painting; a scientist quotes from a well-known article. Readers of nonfiction works expect new writing to reference and incorpora... more

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Assessment of communication, community engagement, and accountability in Colombia and recommendations for response-wide synergy

David Alejandro Schoeller-Diaz; Sayuri Raigoza Rivera

CDAC Network (2021), 32 pp.

"The report documents the status of response-wide Communication, Community Engagement and Accountability towards Affected Populations (CCEA) in Colombia and provides recommendations for a strengthened and more inclusive response. The report explores the operating environment, what works well and wha... more

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Starving the messenger: a study of journalists’ conditions of service in Malawi

Levi Zeleza Manda; Noel Drake Kufaine

Journal of development and communication studies, volume 2, issue 44987 (2013), pp. 301-311

ISSN 2305-7432

"This study used in-depth interviews to investigate the conditions of service and welfare of journalists in Malawi. It found that while the Media Council of Malawi code of professional ethics and standards and in-house policies expected the best out the journalists, the majority of the journalists, ... more

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This is not an atlas: a global collection of counter-cartographies

kollektiv orangotango+ (ed.)

Bielefeld: transcript; Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (2018), 352 pp., many maps

ISBN 978-3-8394-4519-8 (pdf); 978-3-8376-4519-4 (print) CC BY

"This Is Not an Atlas gathers more than 40 counter-cartographies from all over the world. This collection shows how maps are created and transformed as a part of political struggle, for critical research or in art and education: from indigenous territories in the Amazon to the anti-eviction movement... more

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Financially viable media in emerging and developing markets

Anne Nelson (ed.)

Paris: World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA); African Media Initiative (AMI) (2011), 118 pp., bibliogr. p.112-117

"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, ... more

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Beyond all tolerance: child pornography on the internet

Per-Erik Aström

Stockholm: Save the Children Sweden (2004), 50 pp., illustr., glossary p.43-48

ISBN 91-7321142-7

"Save the Children Sweden has had a Hotline website in place for more than four years, receiving more than 22,000 tips about child pornography on the Web. The importance of such a channel and the importance of international co-operation are spelled out in the following report. Save the Children Swed... more

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Countering Russian propaganda

per concordiam: Journal of European security and defense issues, volume , issue special issue (2016), 38 pp.

"In this issue we discuss some of the arguments and debates related to the highly charged and topical issue of Russia’s strategic narrative and how it is disseminated. Propaganda, in numerous forms, creates a barrier to more constructive engagement and dialogue. This issue’s contributors find th... more

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Banking on mobiles: why, how, for whom?

Ignacio Mas; Kabir Kumar

Washington, DC: Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) (2008), 27 pp., illustr., tables, bibliogr. p.24

"This paper examines how banks can translate the potential of mobile phones into greater financial access for poor people. Although mobile phone operators have been able to use the mobile phone for mobile remittance and bill payment services in several countries, banks have had little success in usi... more

Public libraries in Africa: a report and annotated bibliography

Aissa Isaak (comp.)

Oxford: International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) (2000), vi, 199 pp.

ISBN 1-902928-00-8

"The synthesis of literature quoted in the bibliography and the country reports portrays the public library movement in Africa as being very weak, with numerous problems regarding financial constraints, lack of human resources, outdated materials and poor use. The only sector of the African populati... more

Media viability: learning brief

Protecting Independent Media for Effective Development (PRIMED) (2022), 8 pp.

"... there was no single approach to measuring media viability. Deutsche Welle Akademie's (DWA) Media Viability Indicators are designed to assess viability on three levels, considering the overall economic environment (macro); the structure of the media market and potential sources of revenue (meso)... more

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Case studies in collaborative local journalism

Joy Jenkins; Lucas Graves

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2019), 46 pp.

ISBN 978-1-907384-60-8 CC BY

"This report is based on more than 30 interviews with key figures in high-profile collaborative journalism experiments in three different countries, including journalists as well as senior management, community organisers, data analysts, technical experts, and others. The three primary cases feature...d are the Bureau Local (UK), ‘L’Italia Delle Slot’ (Italy), and Lännen Media (Finland). We also interviewed the director of CORRECTIV.Lokal, an initiative in Germany seeking to replicate the work of the Bureau Local. These cases reflect three distinct models of collaboration: (1) a permanent network of journalists and non-journalists engaged in topic-driven reporting projects (the Bureau Local); (2) legacy and start-up news organisations working together on a single extended investigation (‘L’Italia Delle Slot’); and (3) regional news organisations sharing content through a collaborative newsroom (Lännen Media). These initiatives involve both similar and divergent approaches to network building, project development, and content distribution. Two of the collaborations focus on publishing high-impact stories simultaneously across multiple outlets; the Bureau Local pursues multiple projects each year, while ‘L’Italia Delle Slot’ is a time-limited project focused on one subject. The third collaboration, Lännen Media, includes journalists working in newsrooms around Finland to produce national and international reporting shared among 12 member newspapers. We find that these very different initiatives feature many common elements that offer potential lessons for other local newsrooms: Each collaboration is designed to facilitate concrete forms of resource sharing – of both human and technical resources – while minimising potential competitive friction among the individuals and organisations involved. All three collaborations feature diverse and dispersed networks, and are dedicated to creating connections, both virtually and in person, to allow for knowledge-sharing, skills enhancement, and mentorship. They also aim to engage participants as equal partners in editorial processes. Participants suggest that collaborative approaches have allowed them to report on topics they would not typically cover as well as engage with familiar subjects in more comprehensive ways. Many said they have also learned how to better incorporate data and multimedia elements into their reporting. Two of the collaborations embrace strategies that allow them to connect with communities to tell their stories. The Bureau Local and ‘L’Italia Delle Slot’ have worked to build partnerships with individuals and organisations affected by the issues they cover, while Lännen Media journalists aim for coverage with broad appeal that doesn’t favour particular localities." (Publisher) more

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The unfreedom monitor: Russia country report

Advox (2022), 28 pp., bibliogr. p.26-28

CC BY

"The internet gained centrality as a space of public opinion and political activity that became important for the Russian state to co-opt and control as part of the broader push for control of political elites and public perceptions as Putin and his ruling party pushed to eliminate any functioning o... more

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Latin American television: a global view

John Sinclair

Oxford: Oxford University Press (1999), 187 pp., index, bibliogr. p.170-172

ISBN 978-0-19-167358-0 (ebook); 978-0-19-815930-8 (print)

"This book makes English speakers aware of the dimensions, operation, and significance of the globalisation of television in the Spanish-speaking world. Second only in scale to the market for English-language programming, the Spanish-language market embraces not just most nations of South and Centra... more

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Reaching the community through community radio: readjusting to the new realities. A case study investigating the changing nature of community access and participation in three community radio stations in three countries New Zealand, Nepal and Sri Lanka

Ahmed Zaki Nafiz

Canterbury: Doctoral Thesis University of Canterbury (2012), xii, 331 pp. , abbrev. p.iii-iv, bibliogr. p.303-325

"In this case study, I have studied three community radio stations- RS in Nepal, KCR in Sri Lanka and SCR in New Zealand- investigating how the radio management policies are positively or negatively, affecting community access and participation. The study shows that in their effort to stay economica... more

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Global humanitarianism and the changing aid-media field: "everyone was dying for footage"

Simon Cottle; David Nolan

Journalism studies, volume 8, issue 6 (2007), pp. 862-878

"The crucial interaction between humanitarian agencies and the media has been researched in the past but today it continues to evolve and change—and not for the better. This article, drawing on accounts from communications managers working inside the world's major aid agencies (Red Cross, Oxfam, S... more