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A New Website to Reflect Action-Focused Strategy...
It’s easy to be pessimistic about the state of media in the world today. Despite the global spread of technology and connectivity, press freedom has been declining for almost a decade and the producers of high quality news and information are struggling to find new business models to sustain their... |
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Assessment and Impact: From Media That Matters 2...
In October of last year, CIMA released the report Measuring the Audience: Why It Matters to Independent News Media and How It Can Contribute to Media Development. In the report, Michelle Foster explores how audience measurement can be a tool in gauging the media’s impact on people in developing ... |
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Book Review: Media and Development by Martin Sco...
Guest post by Ann Hendrix-Jenkins. This post originally appeared on LenCD.We work in an era when technical specialties dig ever deeper into their own rabbit holes of complexity and nuance, while simultaneously calls resound for a next generation of global health and development based on integration,... |
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EJC Releases New Handbook on Communications Stra...
Too often, developing communications strategies for civil society organizations is ignored. The belief, I think, is that if the mission is there, then people will support it, and it will take root. Many think there’s no need for a methodology in engaging communities in what we do. But the prob... |
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The Great Debate: Freedom of Information and Med...
UN Representative, Global Forum for Media Development This Monday, the UN General Assembly began its final phase of negotiations over the UN’s next set of global development goals, which will succeed the expiring Millennium Development Goals and guide international development priorities and aid f... |
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Making the Case for Media’s Impact on Demo...
Those working in the media development field may often take for granted the idea that independent media, and its counterpart, access to information, are essential to a free and open society. The burden of proof falls upon us to show the impact of media on development issues like good governance, and... |
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UN Secretary General Calls for Media in Post-201...
The campaign for media and access to information’s inclusion in the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals gained a new advocate last week in UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, who reaffirmed their importance in a synthesis report for the SDGs. The report, noting the evolving information needs of ... |
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Post-2015 Goals Should Include Independent Media...
Access to information, transparency, independent media, accountability and citizen participation are not being adequately addressed by the global effort to set a new set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), according to a diverse group of global development specialists. Drawn from an informal su... |
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MDIF’s Impact Dashboard: A Case Study in Measu...
When it comes to measuring success or failure, media developers face many of the same challenges as the rest of the international development community. Do you measure inputs, such as the amount of money that is invested in media development initiatives? Or do you track outcomes from projects—the ... |
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Helpful Hints for Reagan-Fascell Fellowship Appl...
Guest post by Ashley Walburn of the Reagan-Fascell Fellowship Program The Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program at the International Forum for Democratic Studies is currently seeking applications for its 2015-2016 fellowships. As you may know from previous posts on The Source, the Reagan-Fasc... |