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Defining and Evaluating Media Development

Posted by Tom on Mon, 07/07/2008

The Media and State Accountability, from DfID's Media and Good Governance Briefing Anne-Katrin notes in her post “Defining the Public Sphere (In Three Paragraphs)” that the idea of the public sphere may not be clearly understood. Addressing this problem she claims, “Two-way communications between citizens and public officials constitute the public sphere, therefore we need free and independent media systems that facilitate this two-way flow of communication.”

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Media Indicators and the Public: It’s not You, It’s Me!

Posted by Antonio on Thu, 06/03/2008

UNESCO's International Programme for the Development of Communication recently developed a framework for assessing the state of media around the world. This framework is comprised of a set of indicators that are meant to help diagnose the media's overall health, primarily at the national level. The document grounds this effort by citing the sector’s global mandate enshrined in Article XIX of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which states that every person has rights to freedom of opinion, expression, and information.