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- World Press Freedom Index 2002
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The first worldwide index of press freedom has some surprises for Western democracies. The United States ranks below Costa Rica and Italy scores lower than Benin. The five countries with least press freedom are North Korea, China, Burma, Turkmenistan and Bhutan.
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=4116
(Added: Mon Oct 31 2005 Hits: 101)
- Poverty - Not a Pressing Issue for the Press
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The fight against poverty, which calls for a multipronged effort against hunger, inequality, and social marginalisation, is a pressing issue in Latin America. But it is apparently not for the press. In Colombia, where roughly half of the population lives in poverty, the only nationwide newspaper, El Tiempo, dedicates just 0.8 percent of its coverage to the issue. (Ángel Páez, IPS, 20 June 2006)
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=33684
(Added: Fri Jun 23 2006 Hits: 89)
- The People Powered Potential of Independent Media
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In this article, a journalist with 30 years experience in the field reflects on the modern media. He finds that the corporate media's handling of the news has become increasingly unreliable over the years, and mainstream journalists find it difficult, if not dangerous, to cover stories that do not fit neatly into what is known as the "Washington Consensus." However, small, accessible, and affordable technologies can help people to challenge the "knowledge" monopoly of elites. Focusing on radio as one of the most accessible to promote positive social change, he calls for the growth of a social movement that promotes self-management of information. The tasks facing independent media in the months and years ahead are crucial. (Greg Guma, Toward Freedom, 3 May 2006)
http://towardfreedom.com/home/content/view/806/
(Added: Fri May 05 2006 Hits: 97)
- "'Washirika': Raising awareness without mass media" [PDF - 150Kb]
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How do you raise awareness of current issues that could have a huge bearing on people's welfare without the use of media sources? This paper describes a project in Tanzania that employed 'field neighbours', people that visit neighbouring villages and engage people in conversations about current issues, as a way of making people more aware. (Paul Vare, IIED PLA Notes, 2001)
http://www.iied.org/NR/agbioliv/pla_notes/documents/plan_04110.pdf
(Added: Wed Mar 02 2005 Modified: Fri Sep 29 2006 Hits: 331)
- A-Infos Radio Project
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The A-Infos Radio Project was formed in 1996 by grassroots broadcasters, free radio journalists and cyber-activists to provide ourselves with the means to share our radio programs via the Internet.
(Added: Thu Sep 27 2001 Modified: Wed Dec 07 2005 Hits: 186)
- Adbusters
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A global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist movement of the information age. Our aim is to topple existing power structures and forge a major shift in the way we will live in the 21st century. We believe culture jamming can be to our era what civil rights was to the '60s, what feminism was to the '70s, what environmental activism was to the '80s. It will alter the way we live and think. It will change the way information flows, the way institutions wield power, the way TV stations are run, the way the food, fashion, automobile, sports, music and culture industries set their agendas. Above all, it will change the way meaning is produced in our society.
(Added: Fri Apr 12 2002 Modified: Fri Dec 02 2005 Hits: 177)
- ADVANCED Dealing with Media - A Practical Guide (PDF)
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The ComNet publication "ADVANCED Dealing with Media - A Practical Guide", written by Ms. Joke van Kampen, contains detailed chapters on news releases and feature stories, interviews and presentations, as well as press conferences and press tours and is meant as a continuation and culmination of the "Dealing with Media - A Practical Guide"
http://www.asia-initiative.org/pdfs/advanced_media_guide.pdf
(Added: Tue Sep 24 2002 Modified: Fri Oct 14 2005 Hits: 162)
- BANGLADESH: Press freedom undermined
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Sumi Khan, a 34-year-old journalist working with local and national magazines and based in the city of Chittagong, has been attacked and received death threats as a result of her investigative journalism for the past two years. She was stabbed in an attack in 2004, and her attackers remain at large. Sumi Khan has written investigative articles alleging the involvement of local politicians and religious groups in attacks on members of minority communities, and about kidnapping and land-grabbing by landlords. Please write, calling on the authorities to undertake a full, impartial and independent investigation into the threats and attack against Sumi Khan and to bring the perpetrators to justice.
http://web.amnesty.org/appeals/index/bgd-010207-wwa-eng
(Added: Fri Feb 09 2007 Hits: 174)
- Cartoons As Weapons Of Mass Provocation
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Is the global row over the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad the beginning of a "clash of civilizations"? Author and scholar Paul Tiyambe Zeleza argues not, locating the controversy firmly in the realm of politics. In this context, Muslims are challenged to find ways of defending their faith in a way that advances human freedom and decency. Those in the West, he argues, must not support aggression that hides behind freedom of speech. (Pambazuka News, 2006-02-16)
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/32049
(Added: Mon May 15 2006 Modified: Thu Jan 18 2007 Hits: 283)
- Chavez changes channels
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Has Mr. Chavez made a significant miscalculation, which could affect his apparently firm grip on power? RCTV, the countries oldest private broadcasting station, was closed down just before midnight on Sunday May 27th after President Hugo Chavez decided not to renew the concession, which expired on Sunday. President Hugo Chavez decreed last December that there would be no more television concessions for what he calls "fascists" and "coup plotters" (The Economist, 30 May 2007).
http://www.economist.com/world/la/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9248319
(Added: Wed May 30 2007 Hits: 54)
- CJR Daily: Real-time Media
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Columbia Journalism Review Daily provides a critique of mainly United States journalism, as well as a continuing discussion and analysis of where it is and where it's going. It focuses on political journalism, analysis of the larger forces - political, economic, technological, social legal - that affect press performance, and journalism of the business and financial press. Archives go back approximately one month.
(Added: Wed Sep 20 2006 Hits: 75)
- Community Radio Network
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Community radio is defined as radio that is owned by the community and airs programmes designed and produced by it specifically for its own developmental needs It is a significant departure from the primarily centralized radio broadcasting paradigm that India has been following for decades. While there are ample illustrations from various countries of the ways in which it can benefit a community, community radio still remains outside the pale of legitimacy in India. There are articles by media professionals and others who have been working in this field for years.
http://www.communityradionetwork.org/
(Added: Tue Nov 15 2005 Modified: Wed Dec 07 2005 Hits: 117)
- Countercurrents
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An independent media website based in Kerala, India. "Countercurrents.org stands for all counter movements. Our sympathies are with all those who are engaged in struggles for economic, political, social, cultural, gender, environmental ..... justice. Our aim is to strengthen all these movements by spreading the information about their struggles, follow up and update the progress of the movements. Our conviction is that the driving force of social change is these small counter movements and struggles. In this era of media monopoly, internet offers to us an alternative channel of communication. We have to make use of this opportunity to the maximum for our global struggle. Through internet we can circulate news and events that the mainstream media ignores." - From the website.
http://www.countercurrents.org/
(Added: Mon Feb 23 2004 Modified: Thu Jun 01 2006 Hits: 175)
- Crystallizations of media in the global revolution: news coverage and power from Kurdistan to Kosov
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Chapter from: Briggite Nacos and Robert Shapiro, eds., 'Decision-Making in a Glass House: Media, Public Opinion and American and European Foreign Policy', Boulder, Co.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000. Questions of media and foreign policy sit uneasily on the edge of contemporary international relations. Practitioners and academics alike agree that something has changed: hence this book. Nevertheless it is too easy to conceptually limit the significance of the changes, to the interpolation of new 'variables', the media and public opinion, into the relations of states and statesmen. This chapter argues that this is not enough: the expanded role of media should be seen instead as part of a sea-change in world politics, in which old ways of understanding are brought into question. Indeed, the problem of media is a litmus test of the adequacy, not merely of the old 'realist' international relations of inter-state relations, but of the newer 'critical' international relations of non-state actors. So far, the latter seems almost as incapable as the former of conceptualising media. Yet in so far as international relations fails to understand media, it also fails to grasp the new shape of world politics.
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/hafa3/crystal.htm
(Added: Thu Jan 16 2003 Modified: Fri Dec 02 2005 Hits: 167)
- Dealing with Media - A practical Guide (PDF)
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The ComNet publication "Dealing with Media - A practical Guide", written by Ms. Joke van Kampen is a basic guide on how to deal with all types of press and media work, aimed at anyone starting with press activities. It should help facilitate the co-operation of the local RHI-NGOs with the national media.
http://www.asia-initiative.org/pdfs/media_guide.pdf
(Added: Tue Sep 24 2002 Modified: Fri Oct 14 2005 Hits: 185)
- Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum 2008
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Starting in 2008 the Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum will take place annually in Bonn. The main agenda items will change but the event will always address ways to cope with challenges and developments whose course is largely influenced by media worldwide. The target group is both international and inter-disciplinary. The theme for 2008 is the Media in Peacebuilding and Conflict Prevention. 2-4 June 2008, Bonn, Germany.
(Added: Thu Nov 01 2007 Modified: Wed Mar 26 2008 Hits: 53)
- EngageMedia.org
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EngageMedia.org is a website distributing video about social and environmental justice issues in Southeast Asia, Australia and the Pacific. It's a space for critical documentary, fiction, artistic and experimental works that challenge the one-way communication of the mainstream media. EngageMedia aims to demystify and provide access to new video distribution technologies, create an online archive of independent video productions using Open Content licenses and form a peer network of video makers, educators and screening organisations. The website welcome contributions that give context to the actions and issues of our times, in a variety of styles and genres, whether it's documentary, fiction or experimental. The site is moderated but very much participant driven.
(Added: Fri Dec 08 2006 Hits: 405)
- femLINKpacific
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The overarching development objective of their work is to address the imbalances caused by the traditional decision-making structures which impede women and young women's effective participation, especially from the rural population and the poor, to communicate openly on common matters. By developing and implementing a range of women's media initiatives, such as taking a small mobile radio unit out to women and the communities, femLINKpacific offers a "safe space" to articulate and exchange their viewpoints.
http://www.womensmediapool.org/grupos/femlink.htm
(Added: Thu Jun 08 2006 Hits: 315)
- Fiji's peace in a suitcase
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This article look at Sharon Bhagwan-Rolls, a Fijian grassroots activist flown in to bring firsthand expertise to the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office's historic conference on UN Resolution 1325 for women's participation in conflict resolution and decision-making. Their "suitcase radio" project, a mobile radio station, takes radio to women in Fijian communities. Currently secretary of Fiji's National Council of Women, Sharon has worked with many organisations over the years, to include women in Fiji's political life and tap their contribution to peace. She founded the women's media NGO femLINKpacific to ensure women's voices are heard. (Rosemary Bechler, Open Democracy, 6 June 2006)
http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-resolution_1325/fiji_3615.jsp
(Added: Thu Jun 08 2006 Modified: Mon Aug 14 2006 Hits: 339)
- Four Corners (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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Four Corners is a leading current affairs program with a reputation for breaking stories and firing debate on controversial issues.
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/
(Added: Fri Jun 28 2002 Modified: Wed Apr 19 2006 Hits: 172)
- Global Information Network
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Global Information Network, a not-for-profit news and world media operation, is a distributor of Developing World news services, including the Inter Press Service, in the U.S. Global believes that in-depth contextualized analysis is the best way to inform. This site delivers news stories to publishers of newspapers and other media. However, non-publishers are welcome to sign up as well. Customers pay for stories by the month or per story. Customers can download stories in various formats or receive stories by e-mail. Visitors cannot read full stories without an account.
(Added: Tue Nov 05 2002 Modified: Wed Dec 07 2005 Hits: 186)
- Global Witness
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Global Witness campaigns to achieve real change by challenging established thinking on seemingly intractable global issues. We work to highlight the link between the exploitation of natural resources and human rights abuses, particularly where the resources such as timber, diamonds and oil are used to fund and perpetuate conflict and corruption.
(Added: Wed Mar 10 2004 Modified: Fri Jan 19 2007 Hits: 344)
- Gobar Times
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This online news magazine from India is about Environment for kids. Gobar means animal dung in Hindi. All of rural India uses it in a variety of ways. Ways that exemplify sustainable existence. That's why we use it, too.
(Added: Tue Mar 18 2003 Modified: Mon Aug 28 2006 Hits: 236)
- Imaging Famine
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Imaging Famine is a research project that details how famine has been represented in the media, from the 19th century to the present day. Its aim is to provoke a debate about the political effect of such photographs on our understanding of the majority world. This is a brilliant website with a wide range of features such as images, articles, documents and links.
http://www.imaging-famine.org/index.htm
(Added: Wed Aug 23 2006 Modified: Thu Aug 31 2006 Hits: 224)
- Independent Media's Vital Role in Development [pdf]
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To demonstrate the importance of fostering independent media, this report provides examples of how access to information has transformed political, economic, and social systems. It shows what can happen when conditions allow independent media to operate and flourish (Peter Graves, 10 December 2007)
http://www.dev-zone.org/downloads/CIMA-Media%5C%27s_Vital_Role_in_Development-Report.pdf
(Added: Mon Apr 21 2008 Hits: 63)
