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We just lost our best chance in a generation to expand media freedom
Center for News, Technology & Innovation, February 27 (2025)
"A US retreat from international media assistance will set back the global movement for media freedom by years. The gap left behind will not be easy to fill. The movement, however, can be sustained by fortifying its roots. In time, the movement could emerge stronger." (Introduction)
What is Next for Media Development?
Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies, volume 11, issue 2 (2022), pp. 135-140
"What comes next for media development? Though the contributors to this volume [i.e., the special issue focusing on international media development] provide answers from diverse perspectives, they each touch upon questions of agency and localization. The contributors investigate major issues with a
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Journalism is a Public Good: World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development, Global Report 2021/2022
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Paris: UNESCO (2022), 160 pp.
"Over the past five years, approximately 85 percent of the world’s population experienced a decline in press freedom in their country. Even in countries with long traditions of safeguarding free and independent journalism, financial and technological transformations have forced news outlets, espec
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Building Regional Strategies for Media Development in the Middle East and North Africa
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2020), 28 pp.
"Experts from 13 countries in the Middle East and North Africa agreed on the priorities that could provide the basis for greater collective action to defend independent media in the region. This report provides a summary of those deliberations [...] Building on and strengthening cross-country networ
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International Media Development: Historical Perspectives and New Frontiers
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New York et al.: Peter Lang (2019), xv, 277 pp.
"This collection is the first of its kind on the topic of media development. It brings together luminary thinkers in the field—both researchers and practitioners—to reflect on how advocacy groups, researchers, the international community and others can work to ensure that media can continue to s
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Confronting the Crisis in Independent Media: A Role for International Assistance
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2019), 25 pp.
"With independent media around the world in crisis, what is the role of international donors and private foundations? And how can these international actors provide effective support when the driving forces behind independent media’s decline—simultaneously technological, financial, social, polit
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Redefining Media Development: A Demand-Driven Approach
In: International Media Development: Historical Perspectives and New Frontiers
Nicholas Benequista; Susan Abbott; Paul Rothman; Winston Mano (eds.)
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2019), pp. 30-41
"Media development specialists and activists need a concept of media development that understands and addresses the deeply political nature of the media as an institution. We also need a way to cope with rapidly changing technology and the media's increasingly global nature. Media development is as
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Media Development and the Market for Loyalties
In: International Media Development: Historical Perspectives and New Frontiers
Nicholas Benequista; Susan Abbott; Paul Rothman; Winston Mano (eds.)
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2019), pp. 20-29
"My goal in this chapter is to place media development efforts within a specific frame: namely the actions of great strategic communicators (states, religions, transnational corporations, for example) as they seek to increase support for their general positions in the world. Development efforts can
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Pathways to Media Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa: Reflections from a Regional Consultation
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Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2017), 25 pp.
"To ensure that African media organizations remain viable players in this changing political and economic landscape, new coalitions need to be built and existing ones strengthened. The existing coalitions in the region display certain weaknesses: they tend to be unevenly spread across the region and
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Kenya's Media Landscape: A Success Story with Serious Structural Challenges
Leipzig: Vistas (2014), 180 pp.
"Kenya’s 2010 Constitution guarantees press freedom in a way the country has never previously seen. However, the concentration of media ownership and pending consensus on new media legislation are tarnishing the triumphs of Kenya’s media liberalization and development. Regulation of news content
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Cartographers, Conciliators and Catalysts: Understanding the Communicative Roles of Researchers
IDS Bulletin
"A review of case studies from a global, ten-year research project coordinated by the Institute of Development Studies suggests that previous efforts to understand the value of research for promoting social change has underappreciated the contribution of researchers as social actors. Researchers inh
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