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This collection is the first of its kind on the topic of media development, and reflects on how advocacy groups, researchers, the international community and others can work to ensure that media can continue to serve as a force of democracy and development.

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This collection is the first of its kind on the topic of media development. It brings together luminary thinkers in the field-both researchers and practitioners-to reflect on how advocacy groups, researchers, the international community and others can work to ensure that media can continue to serve as a force of democracy and development. But that mission faces considerable challenges. Media development paradigms are still too frequently associated with Western prejudices, or out of touch with the digital age. As we move past Western blueprints and into an uncertain digital future, what does media development mean? If we are to act meaningfully to shape the future of our increasingly mediated societies, we must answer this question.

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List of Figures - List of Tables - Acknowledgments - Nicholas Benequista/Susan Abbott/Paul Rothman/Winston Mano: Introduction - Marc Raboy: Global Media: New Issues, Old Story - Monroe E. Price: Media Development and the Market for Loyalties - Mark M. Nelson: Redefining Media Development: A Demand-Driven Approach - Susan Abbott: Evaluating Success: What Should We Be Measuring? - Silvio Waisbord: A Sketch of Media Development: From Meeting Point to Field? - Nicole Stremlau: Media Development and the Political Marketplace - Douglas Griffin: Fake News and Disinformation: Promoting Facts with Press Freedoms - Carolyn M. Byerly: Gender, Research, and Media Development: A Feminist Perspective on Media Structures - Marius Dragomir: Media Capture: Media Ownership, Oligarchs, and the Challenge of Developing Independent Media - Shanthi Kalathil: The New Normal: Transnational Authoritarian Threats to Independent Media - Winston Mano: Refocusing Media Development in Africa - María Soledad Segura: The Impact of Foreign Aid on the Development of Media and Communication in Latin America - Savyasaachi Jain: India´s Media Development Seesaw: Advancement and Vulnerability in the World´s Largest Democracy - Gillian McCormack: The State of Media Development in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Republics - James Deane: How the Fault-lines in Media Development Assistance Make Us Ill-Prepared for the Future: A Densely Potted Historical Analysis - Tatjana Ljubic: Media Literacy in the Context of Media Development: Framework, Interventions, and Assessment - Michelle Betz: Local News: A Shift to Hyperlocal? - Tom Jacobson: Solutions Journalism and a Normative Model for Media Development - Drew Sullivan: The Enduring Place of Investigative Journalism in Media Development - Minna Aslama Horowitz/Davor Marko: Public Service Broadcasting and Media Development - Des Freedman/Jonathan A. Obar: Media Development and Media Reform: Time for Change - Daniel O´Maley: Digital Convergence and Its Implications for Media Development - Michelle J. Foster: The Revenue Paradox of Digital News Media - Tara Susman-Pe¤a: Media Development in the Digital Age - Guy Berger: How Scholarship on Media Development Can Make a Difference - About the Contributors.

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