"This article explores the role that nongovernmental organizations play in the changing landscape of international news. Drawing on archival analysis and 65 interviews with nongovernmental organization professionals, it examines the resource commitments and values guiding research at leading humanit...arian and human rights nongovernmental organizations. It finds that staff size, country coverage, and reporting capacity have increased substantially over time and now rival the resources found in major news organizations. Interviews reveal that nongovernmental organization work is guided by values of accuracy, pluralism, advocacy, and timeliness. These values overlap with and sometimes extend commonly held journalistic values, but they are not reducible to them. Findings suggest that nongovernmental organizations provide important ‘boots on the ground’ coverage of international affairs, even as their imbrication with journalistic practices raises important normative questions for nongovernmental organizations, journalists, and news audiences." (Abstract)
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"This book investigates the ways in which the mobile telephone has transformed societies around the world, bringing both opportunities and challenges. At a time when knowledge and truth are increasingly contested, the book asks how mobile technology has changed the ways in which people create, disse...minate, and access knowledge. Worldwide, mobile internet access has surpassed desktop access, and it is estimated that by 2022 there will be an excess of 6 billion mobile phone users in the world. This widespread proliferation raises all sorts of questions around who creates knowledge, how is that knowledge shared and proliferated, and what are the structural political, economic, and legal conditions in which knowledge is accessed. The practices and power dynamics around mobile technologies are location specific. They look different depending on whether one chooses to highlight the legal, social, political, or economic context. Bringing together scholars, journalists, activists and practitioners from around the world, this book embraces this complexity, providing a multifaceted picture that acknowledges the tensions and contradictions surrounding accessing knowledge through mobile technologies. With case studies from Hong Kong, South Korea, India, Syria, Egypt, Botswana, Brazil, and the US, this book provides an important account of the changing nature of our access to knowledge, and is key reading for students, researchers, activists and policy makers with an interest in technology and access to knowledge, communication, social transformation, and global development." (Publisher)
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"The purpose of the Media for Democracy Assessment Tool (MAT) is to assist United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in producing media assessments to inform strategy on media and democracy programming, help inform potential media development programming goals, and help provide an i...nformed understanding of where USAID investment is most feasible and needed and will have the best chances for impact. The MAT provides a standardized methodology to answer the key question: How do media connect to democracy and how can media support democracy promotion and civic space?" (Introduction, p.6)
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"El lector de “La navaja suiza del reportero” recorrerá una selección de los principales casos de periodismo de datos a nivel internacional y conocerá las herramientas digitales más usadas por las mejores redacciones del mundo para limpiar, analizar y visualizar grandes cantidades de informa...ción. Desde las más conocidas como Open Refine, creada por Google hace más de un lustro y una de mis favoritas, hasta otras más complejas como el Neo4J, utilizada por el equipo de OjoPúblico -este año, en plena campaña electoral- para crear un especial inédito sobre el financiamiento de los partidos políticos y las campañas presidenciales del Perú en la última década. En el manual de casi 100 páginas -una suerte de crónica sobre los reporteros en tránsito al uso de la tecnología- el lector descubrirá que los periodistas de investigación ya no pueden trabajar aislados como lobos solitarios. La simbiosis creada con los escritores de código ha llevado esta profesión a horizontes desconocidos en la exploración de documentos que antes hubieran sido imposibles de analizar por cualquier medio de comunicación en el mundo." (Presentación)
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