http://85.17.92.7/~gfmd/index.php en director@mediagfmd.org Copyright 2012 2012-01-31T16:57:48+00:00 http://gfmd.info/index.php/site/ipi_news_innovation_contest_2012_call_for_applications_opens/ http://gfmd.info/index.php/site/ipi_news_innovation_contest_2012_call_for_applications_opens/#When:16:57:48Z 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. GFMD Stories 2012-01-31T16:57:48+00:00 http://gfmd.info/index.php/site/new_gfmd_insider_out_now/ http://gfmd.info/index.php/site/new_gfmd_insider_out_now/#When:14:15:57Z 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 GFMD Central 2012-01-31T14:15:57+00:00 http://gfmd.info/index.php/site/indian_media_needs_a_wake-up_call/ http://gfmd.info/index.php/site/indian_media_needs_a_wake-up_call/#When:21:30:40Z 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) GFMD Stories 2012-01-25T21:30:40+00:00 http://gfmd.info/index.php/site/journalism_ethics_and_self-regulation_in_a_changing_media_environment/ http://gfmd.info/index.php/site/journalism_ethics_and_self-regulation_in_a_changing_media_environment/#When:18:38:33Z This research paper prepared by GFMD Director Bettina Peters looks at how journalists and press councils in two very different media systems in the same region—Indonesia and Malaysia—have addressed the question of journalism ethics in the face of a changing media environment. The Indonesian Press Council, set up within the move to democracy in Indonesia, which—although a statutory council –works independently of government has recently been dealing with complaints from the public as well as criticisms from politicians about ethics on the Internet. Some Internet coverage is being perceived as harmful and journalists and the press council find themselves having to strike a balance between concerns expressed and issues of free expression. In Malaysia, several internet-only based news-sites have been at the forefront of pushing restrictions on press freedom in the country. At the same time, there is concern expressed about excesses on the Internet. The paper compares these two on-going developments. It includes interviews with journalists from both countries. It will draw conclusions on what type of self-regulatory structure is best placed to deal with new media ethics in new or emerging democracies in South-East Asia while also addressing problems of transferring structures from one media systems to another. GFMD Stories 2012-01-23T18:38:33+00:00 http://gfmd.info/index.php/site/persephone_fellowship_applications_open_for_2012/ http://gfmd.info/index.php/site/persephone_fellowship_applications_open_for_2012/#When:05:22:39Z The Persephone 2012 Miel Fellowship is accepting applications,  The fellowship is designed to help media professionals outside of the United States do the kind of reporting they’ve always wanted to do, and enable them to bring their work to a broader international audience. The fellowship benefits those with limited access to other fellowships and international distribution of their work . GFMD Stories 2012-01-19T05:22:39+00:00 http://gfmd.info/index.php/site/free_press_unlimited_looking_for_key_personel_to_join_team/ http://gfmd.info/index.php/site/free_press_unlimited_looking_for_key_personel_to_join_team/#When:07:56:16Z Free Press Unlimited works to ensure that reliable news and information are and remain available to people across the globe. Particularly people in countries where there is little to no press freedom. By supporting local media professionals and journalists, Free Press Unlimited helps to enable as many people as possible to gain and keep access to the information they require to survive and develop. Free Press Unlimited is looking for dynamic, ambitious and skilled middle management staff GFMD Stories 2012-01-16T07:56:16+00:00 http://gfmd.info/index.php/site/only_3_weeks_left_for_entries_for_the_2012_one_world_media_awards/ http://gfmd.info/index.php/site/only_3_weeks_left_for_entries_for_the_2012_one_world_media_awards/#When:07:04:04Z The One World Media Awards recognize the most outstanding media coverage of the developing world and the unique role of journalists and filmmakers in bridging the divide between different societies and raising awareness of vital development issues. Work from all media platforms and across a wide range of genres is celebrated at our annual ceremony GFMD Stories 2012-01-12T07:04:04+00:00 http://gfmd.info/index.php/site/the_knight_international_journalism_awards_2012/ http://gfmd.info/index.php/site/the_knight_international_journalism_awards_2012/#When:06:36:35Z The role of Journalism has changed dramatically with social media tools and as such awards now have to be expanded in the field of journalism and as such the Kinight International Journalism Award is given every year to Journalists who go beyond the call of duty by ICFJ, last years’ winners were a potpourri of media excellence. The International Center for Journalists, a non-profit, professional organization, promotes quality journalism worldwide in GFMD Stories 2012-01-12T06:36:35+00:00 http://gfmd.info/index.php/site/gfmd_end_of_year_review/ http://gfmd.info/index.php/site/gfmd_end_of_year_review/#When:16:11:48Z 2011 has been an exciting year for the Global Forum for Media Development.  The GFMD and its members have been promoting recognition of media development as an integral part of development policies in many international forums and have helped increase support for media development. This short review highlights the milestones of GFMD activity in 2011. 2012 promises to be an even more important year for the GFMD as we work to organise the GFMD 3rd World Conference in Brasilia on September 25-28. In the coming months members will receive invitations and more information about the event, which will be the highlight of the 2012 media development calendar bringing together media assistance groups from more than 100 countries around the globe. International Organisations The GFMD’s work to promote support to media development has focused on the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which, for the first time, involved the GFMD and its members in discussions about development strategies and organised a special meeting on the role of media in promoting good governance in June 2011 in partnership with GFMD members BBC World Service Trust and Internews Europe.  The GFMD developed the position of media support groups to the OECD High-Level meeting on development, which took place in Busan, South Korea in November 2011. While the final document of that meeting did not specifically mention media, many of the attending governments supported the GFMD’s position that media are a key non-state actor (the term used by the OECD to describe non-governmental organisations including business) playing an important role in ensuring accountability and transparency by governments. The GFMD also worked closely with UNESCO and other UN agencies, including the UN Alliance for Civilisations in their work related to media development. Throughout 2011 the GFMD has been closely involved in an ambitious project to develop guidelines for media companies to report on their business activities with a focus on quality of content, internal accountability and impact on society at large. The Global Reporting Initiative guidelines for the media sector will be published at the beginning of 2012. GFMD Central 2012-01-01T16:11:48+00:00 http://gfmd.info/index.php/site/africa_news_innovation_challenge_launches_fund/ http://gfmd.info/index.php/site/africa_news_innovation_challenge_launches_fund/#When:11:20:56Z Africa is catching up fast in mobile and social media applications. This is especially true in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Sub-Saharan African news publishing industry today is facing an interesting future. There is a lot of development in the region, not least in the mobile sector. It is a market that has recently seen a deregulation in the mobile network operator sector, with better financial agreements slowly emerging as a result of competition, GFMD Stories 2011-12-20T11:20:56+00:00