DB Click: Media Development
January 2010
WELCOME to the new e-newsletter for people seeking to address media development issues and opportunities.
DB CLICK: Media Development updates you on recent media and media development initiatives including programme activities, awards, evaluation and research results, networks, books, other materials, planning ideas, change theories and other information recently placed on The Communication Initiative website.
DB CLICK: Media Development complements The Drum Beat through a specific focus on journalism and media development. It will be published bimonthly (every second month).
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1. Afghan Woman’s Hour (AWH) – Afghanistan
First broadcast in January 2005, Afghan Woman’s Hour (AWH) is a weekly radio programme that was created by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) World Service Trust (WST) and the Afghan Stream of World Service Radio to empower Afghan women to know their rights and to encourage them to participate in civil society. Through reports from women journalists based in Afghanistan and from the Afghan refugee communities in Pakistan and Iran, AWH aims to inform and entertain all classes of women, offering lively debate, new ideas, and solutions women can use to empower themselves and others…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/305106/2754
2. The Impact of the BBC World Service Trust’s Afghan Woman’s Hour: Results from a National Survey in Afghanistan
This report is an evaluation of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) World Service Trust (WST) radio project Afghan Woman’s Hour (AWH). The weekly magazine format aims to help Afghan women explore new ideas, find solutions to their problems, and participate more fully in the rebuilding of their country. A group of 20 BBC-WST-trained female journalists from all over the country gather original stories, conduct interviews, and record folkloric songs…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/305109/2754
3. African Labour Radio Project – Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Launched in 2006, the Africa Labour Radio Project works to establish a labour media network involving 10 Anglophone African countries. The network’s primary purpose initially is to produce and broadcast weekly or fortnightly labour radio shows relevant to a working class perspective on community and/or public radio stations in each of the participating countries and via the internet…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/283426/2754
4. Media Development Monitoring and Evaluation-Wiki (mediaME-Wiki) – Global
Launched in October 2009, mediaME is a collaborative online initiative to collect and share knowledge and experience in monitoring and evaluation (M&E) in the field of media development. The mediaME initiative aims to: provide a resource for knowledge and capacity building in media development; encourage communication and collaboration; and facilitate the creation of «toolkits» for assessing media, media development, and media development assistance…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/305816/2754
5. Swedish Support to a Regional Environmental Journalism and Communication Programme in Eastern Africa for the Period 2002-2006
This report is part of Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) evaluations of its funded projects. The development objectives of the Regional Training Programme in Environment Journalism are to improve the quality of environmental reporting in the media in the Eastern Africa region through training, networking, community outreach, and developing positive attitudes toward sustainable management of natural resources. The programme’s focus on the environment also included relevant areas such as conflict management, gender, and HIV/AIDS…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/271236/2754
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NETWORK AND DISCUSS
http://groups.comminit.com/
New discussions and opportunities for social networking connections through The CI are available athttp://groups.comminit.com/
To join and contribute please see http://groups.comminit.com/ to browse the existing groups and click on «Request Membership» for any of interest to you. You will need to register/log in [see top right]. There is a process to get a new password if you have a log in for this new site, but have forgotten your password (see the «Request New Password» tab under Login). You may use your same username and password as you have on The CI website, but you must register and log in separately here, in order to join groups and start networking.
When you have logged in and joined the forums of interest, you can either reply to existing posts («Add a New Comment») or submit a new post («Submit a Post» in right side bar of each group).
You may also start your own group – on issues related to Media Development, if you wish – which others may join and comment on («Create Group» in top right side bar).
Existing Groups which may be of interest:
Haiti: Discuss
http://groups.comminit.com/node/308958
Ethics in Communication for Development
http://groups.comminit.com/node/300544
The Future of ICTs and Development
http://groups.comminit.com/ict4d
Web Site Directors
http://groups.comminit.com/node/300194
Community Radio and Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)
http://groups.comminit.com/node/301020
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6. Media Literacy: Understanding the News
This report is the first in a series of three on the status of United States (US) and international understanding of and funding for media literacy. From the Executive Summary: «Media literacy training gives the public the tools to be active citizens. It helps people understand the value of news, defend their access to free information, decipher the messages they receive, use their rights of free expression to make their voices heard, and participate in the process of governing…»
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/306350/2754
7. Media Literacy: Citizen Journalists
This report is the second in a series of three on the status of United States (US) and international understanding of and funding for media literacy drawn from information and data that have been gathered from dozens of interviews, many internal documents, and multiple reports. From the Executive Summary: «Citizen journalists may turn out to be the 21st century’s most potent force for creating, supporting, and building open and democratic societies…»
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/306353/2754
8. Community Radio Performance Assessment System
This Community Radio Performance Assessment System (CR-PAS) manual from the Radio Knowledge Centre, Community Radio Support Center (CRSC)/ Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (NEFEJ) is intended to further the development of community media in Nepal and elsewhere. It is written to provide well-considered community radio benchmarks and criteria. It considers the goals that are the basis for the success of community media: public accountability, community representation, locally relevant programming, diverse funding, and due acknowledgement of staff, including volunteers…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/306821/2754
9. Salzburg Academy’s Global Media Literacy (GML) – Global
The International Center for Media and the Public Agenda (ICMPA) at the University of Maryland (in the United States) offers an intercultural global media programme that annually gathers over 50 students and a dozen faculty from more than 15 countries on 5 continents to explore the global media’s role in global citizenship and civil society. Through a reciprocal relationship with Austria’s Salzburg Academy, the initiative focuses on global media literacy (GML), an educational concept aimed at engaging learners with the role of information in shaping global society and global citizenship…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/307403/2754
10. Khabar Lahariya – India
Khabar Lahariya (Bundeli for «News Waves») is a weekly rural newspaper written, edited, illustrated, produced, and marketed by a group of women – most of them from marginalised tribal, Dalit, Kol, and Muslim communities – in Chitrakoot and Banda districts of Uttar Pradesh in north India. Beginning in May 2002 in Chitrakoot, the project added a second edition in the adjoining Banda district in October 2006. KL’s purpose is not only to provide information to those in remote villages but also to provide women from marginalised groups with a voice on important issues along with a sense of confidence and purpose…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/308142/2754
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POLL: What are the best possibilities for journalist-readership connections?
(you may choose more than one; please add clarifying comments)
360 votes received as of January 21 2010.
29%: Readers should hold editors, managers, and media owners accountable for journalistic freedom.
28%: Readers should hold journalists to a high standard of transparency.
27%: Journalists should build support for public risk-taking in the name of media freedom.
16%: Journalists should ascertain topical concerns of readers.
ADD YOUR VOTE!
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/288047/2754
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11. London School of Economics
The Department of Media and Communications offers interdisciplinary graduate teaching to an international body of students through its programmes at the Masters level and through graduate research training. It undertakes research at the interface between social and technological change, critically addressing the key issues in the emerging digital world, and seeking a better understanding of their dynamics in ways that can be communicated to academic, industrial, and governmental audiences, offering a Master of Science (MSc) in Media, Communications, and Development (MCD) and an MPhil/PhD in Media and Communications…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/307990/2754
12. Development in Practice Special Issue: Citizen’s Media and Communication
In the introduction to this special issue of the journal Development in Practice, guest editors Jethro Pettit, Juan Francisco Salazar, and Alfonso Gumucio Dagron argue that citizens’ media and communication are still poorly understood in the mainstream of development policy and practice. The examples and analyses in this issue seek to foster a more coherent grasp of the social, cultural, and political processes that make citizens’ media transformative by «redefining norms and power relations that exclude people. Local ownership and control of their own media can allow people to reshape the spaces in which their voices find expression…»
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/307984/2754
13. Measuring Change: Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation in Media and Development Cooperations
According to this document summarising the symposium Measuring Change: Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation in Media Development, the event was focused on the utilisation aspect of evaluation in media development, including an emphasis on learning from monitoring and evaluation (M&E) experiences, to facilitate the improvement of existing projects and programmes at all levels, from planning to implementation and follow-up…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/305815/2754
14. One World Student Media Programme – United Kingdom
In 2009, the United Kingdom (UK)-based organisation One World Media launched a 3-year project to encourage documentary filmmaking and journalism students to produce high-quality media coverage of the developing world. Funded by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), the media development initiative centres around university media courses in the UK. Organisers and their tutors will develop curricula covering a range of issues relating to reporting and filmmaking, such as ethical challenges when reporting on the ground…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/305467/2754
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Send us information about your Media Development case studies, reports, evaluations, thinking, and resources. Send to Deborah Heimann at dheimann@comminit.com
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Access all information on the issues you choose through a Theme Site on The CI:
Media Development – http://www.comminit.com/en/mediadev.html
Democracy and Governance – http://www.comminit.com/en/demandgov.html
ICT4D – http://www.comminit.com/en/ict4d.html
HIV/AIDS – http://www.comminit.com/en/hiv-aids.html
Polio – http://www.comminit.com/en/polio.html
Early Child Development – http://www.comminit.com/en/earlychild.html
Natural Resource Management – http://www.comminit.com/en/nrm.html
Avian Influenza – http://www.comminit.com/en/avianinfluenza.html
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