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GFMD CENTRAL

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Dear GFMD Members,

Last year was an exciting year. The Global Forum for Media Development and its members promoted recognition of media development as an integral part of development policies in many international forums and helped increase support for media development.

We coordinated the response of the media development sector to the debate on aid generated by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. You can read more about it in this issue’s Funder’s Perspective and in James Deane’s column.

We put media development on the agenda of the European Union. An article in this issue gives you the highlights of a debate GFMD organized at the European Development Days in December in Warsaw.

GFMD helped identify strategies for using new media to promote free expression and development in Asia at the Bali Media Forum in December. An article by Bettina Peters and Subendran Ravindran gives some useful examples of ongoing new media projects in that region.

This year promises to be our most exciting year since the launch of GFMD as a membership network some three years ago. We will hold our third GFMD World Conference in Brasilia, Brazil, September 25-28, expected to bring together some 500 media development practitioners from around the world. The main question we will address at the conference is how new digital technologies and social media are changing the environment we work in and how the current information revolution impacts media development. The use of mobile technologies, increase of the Internet information space, social media, and other pressures on traditional media and market models are all changing the way media development is being implemented. Together, we want to define new strategies for media development that serve the information and communication needs of the public.

A Funder’s Perspective | Media Critical to Accountability on Aid
New Media: Tools to Promote Democratic Debate in Asia
New Media is Powerful. But What About Accountability, and Access?
Cool New Tools | Twitter for Newsrooms (#TfN)
Forward Thinker | James Deane on the Price of Consensus
Eye on Results | Susan Philliber on the Value of Curricula
Tech Corner | Amy Webb on 2012
Tomorrow’s Journalism | Aidan White on Rising Above Murdoch


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GFMD STORIES

IPI News Innovation Contest 2012: Call for Applications Opens

IPI is a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists dedicated to the furtherance and safeguarding of press freedom, the protection of freedom of opinion and expression, the promotion of the free flow of news and information and the improvement of the practices of journalism. Founded in 1950, at Columbia University in New York, IPI is the world’s oldest global press freedom organisation.


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Indian Media Needs A Wake-Up Call

India with all the focus of the world on its IT revolution and technological wizardry can do better when it comes to serving its citizens in-terms of educating them with information. Journalism in India is too much about sensationalism, though I still have hope. In a recent TV panel discussion in India Madhu Kishwar a senior journalist

(By Justice Markandey Katju, Chair of the Indian Press Council)


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