DB Click: Media Development September 2012

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September 2012
DB Click: Media Development

1. Covering Elections: The Challenges of Training the Watchdogs
	Media trainers interviewed for this report indicate that, where specialised election coverage programmes have been mounted, they have tended to be "short term and timed directly before elections, with faulty recruiting of participants, little focus on skills to be imparted in the rush, and no follow-up. Donors, trying to show they have no vested interest in influencing how people vote have also had little input on the content of journalist training."...

2.Mapping Digital Media: Social Media and News
	"It will... become more important than ever to identify what exactly the role of journalists - and the news they report - should be, regardless of platform. Is it to hold power to account, give a voice to the voiceless and a platform for national, international, and local conversations? Or separate rumour from truth, or create well-informed citizens?"...

3.MAKE: Media for Advocacy and Empowerment
BBC Media Action is working with community radio stations in Zambia to build their capacity to hold local governments account able and ensure they improve local services and conditions. BBC Media Action is providing journalism training and ongoing mentoring to four radio stations, with the goal of building capacity to fulfil their role reporting local events, and creating spaces for dialogue between ordinary people and local authorities...

4.Help Me Investigate Website
Help Me Investigate is a United Kingdom (UK)-based website that aims to help those who want to investigate questions in the public interest...

5.Supporting media: what works and why? - Blog
From Mary Myers' blog: "Supporting media: what works and why?: I've just finished writing a synthesis report about how media can be supported in countries where media freedoms and rights are constrained. It was commissioned by BBC Media Action who asked me to bring together the findings of five case studies covering Bangladesh, Cambodia, Syria, South Sudan and Uganda, commissioned from five other writers..."

Call for Blogs: The Communication, Media, Policy Blog Site of The Communication Initiative

We welcome your blog entries for this forum on analysis, ideas, and debates on development policy from communication and media perspectives. For a look at a recent analysis, Mary Myers' blog, mentioned above, continues: "Although some of the countries chosen were not closed autocracies, journalists in all five countries are under all sorts of threats and stress, and the right to free expression remains a cause for international concern in all five. I was curious to see what initiatives donors were supporting under such difficult circumstances..." We also suggest this sampling: Warren Feek's blog "Really High Level Post MDG Engagement: There is no bigger international development policy making process, debate and decision over the coming 3 to 5 years than what replaces the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) from 2015 on..." or Oscar Abello's blog "Development is like music: I am starting to think development is like music. Economics. Political science. Anthropology. Sociology. History. Project management. Communications. Accounting. These aren’t just disciplines relevant to development. They’re instruments. The greater the diversity of instruments, the greater the vibrancy of what’s produced..." Send your blog to Julie Levy: jlevy@comminit.com

6.SOAS Radio
SOAS Radio is an online station and social media enterprise based at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, United Kingdom (UK). The station works with students and academics to produce radio programmes, aiming to share the knowledge of SOAS with a worldwide audience and helping students engage directly with the parts of the world they are studying..

7.Consejo de Redacción (CdR) - The Editorial Board
The Consejo de Redacción (CdR), is an organisation of Colombian investigative journalists, organised in 2006, with a digital crowd-sourced map of reports of political misconduct in Colombia, created to give journalists and citizens the opportunity to digitally map their reports...

8.Pul-e-Jawan (Bridges of Youth)
Growing out of a Kabul, Afghanistan-based master class on peace and citizen journalism, Pul-e-Jawan (Bridges of Youth) is a platform and ongoing exchange of ideas for young people involved in media in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India. By facilitating an exchange between citizen journalists of these 3 countries and providing a platform to discuss issues usually ignored in the debate about security, Internews Networks hopes to create a paradigm shift in the discussions about peace and reconciliation in the region...

Call for Applications: The Gabriel Garcia Marquez Fellowship in Cultural Journalism

An opportunity from the Fundación para un Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano (FNPI): The Gabriel Garcia Marquez Fellowship in Cultural Journalism programme brings reporters from different parts of world to participate in workshops in Cartagena, Colombia, to explore and recount the stories of Caribbean culture. There are 3 Modules 1) Music: from January 7-13 2013 2) Popular Culture: from January 14-20 2013 3) Literature: from January 21-27 2013 All costs for tuition, air travel, and lodging will be covered by the Fellowship. Deadline: October 2 2012Click here for more information and to find out how to apply.

9.Mobile Security Risks: A Primer for Activists, Journalists and Rights Defenders
Safer Mobile designed this primer as part of its goal to "assist activists, human rights defenders, and journalists assess the mobile communications risks that they face, and then use appropriate counter measure in order to organise, report, and work with mobile devices more safely." The online overview is designed to help users evaluate their level of risk in regard to mobile communications. ..

10.Harvesting Change: Enhancing Media Coverage of Agriculture and Women in Mali, Uganda, and Zambia
This project’s goal was to provide the public with a more accurate and in-depth view of food production and the lives and needs of those who feed the population. Overall, the assessment found that the project had significantly increased the quantity, quality, and depth of reporting on women in agriculture. ..

Call for Applications: Earth Journalism Network (EJN) Grants Fund

With a focus on building the capacities of local environmental journalism networks and their members, the Earth Journalism Network (EJN) welcomes applications from journalists and journalism organisations for a grant pool of US$50,000, to be divided among atleast 5 grantees. Projects that use innovative methods to build networks or distribute environmental news are of particular interest to EJN as part of this effort to invest in strategic opportunities for media development. First deadline: October 15 2012Click here for more information and to find out how to apply.

11.CIME Public Trust Survey 2011
In 2011, Center for International Media Ethics (CIME) launched a web-based survey to examine the opinion of news consumers on public trust of the media. The survey examined media consumption and preferences, perception of regard for ethics in various media, and importance of ethics in media to readers...

12.What Role Should the Media Play in Determining the Content of Campaign Advertisements? - Blog
From Noelina Nabwire's blog: "That the media is an essential tool in any functioning democracy is not in doubt. What are the motives behind the various contents contained in the media? This question of motives becomes more pronounced during the electioneering period as is the case in Kenya"...

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13.High Level Editors' Meet on World Immunization Week
This article reports on an editors' meet-up organised as a follow-up of an Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) and United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) partnership project on routine immunisation, initiated in July 2011. Over 20 national and state editors came together for a brainstorming session, as part of World Immunization Week...

14.Media for Ethical Election Coverage in Zambia (MEEZ)
The BBC Media Action's project, Media for Ethical Election Coverage in Zambia (MEEZ), was designed to help journalists improve their reporting skills to encourage more balanced and fair coverage of the national elections held in September 2011. A central focus, along with training journalists, was supporting the presidential and member of parliament debates for television to help explore the issues in the run up to election day...

15.Media Freedom Report 2011 - Mongolia
"The purpose of the present report is to give an overall picture of Mongolian media freedom situation, how Mongolian journalists exercise their professional rights and what are the opportunities to be responsible and fair in fulfilling their duties before the public."...

16.Civil Society and Media Leadership Program
Civil Society and Media Leadership (CSML) is a five-year programme launched by IREX in 2010 to improve the skills, performance, and perceptions of Liberian civil society organisations (CSOs) through training, mentoring, and small grant projects. CSML provides training and resources to Liberian CSOs and independent media, designed to include and engage the Liberian population in the creation of inclusive, peaceful, and sustainable development...

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