African Women's Media Center
www.awmc.com/directory/
The African Women's Media Center, a project of the International Women's Media
Foundation, was founded in 1997. Located in Dakar, Senegal, and directed by
an advisory committee of African women in the media, the center is a continent-wide
organisation working with and on behalf of African women in the media. The AWMC's
online media directory features more than 200 media companies, non-governmental
organisations and journalism education programmes in Sub Saharan Africa.
Article XIX
www.article19.org
Named after Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article
XIX works worldwide to combat censorship by promoting freedom of expression
and access to official information. It aims to do so by monitoring, researching,
publishing, lobbying, campaigning and litigating on behalf of freedom of expression
wherever it is threatened. They publish online activity reports, publications,
and the Freedom of Expression Handbook.
B92
www.b92.net
B92 is a multi-faceted media house at the forefront of the transformation of
post-Milosevic Yugoslavia's cultural life. In twelve years they have grown from
tentative origins as a student radio station to an umbrella association comprising
over 250 staff in the fields of television, radio, Internet, music, film and
publishing. The site provides information on the media situation and its development
in Yugoslavia.
BBC World Service Trust
www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/trust
The BBC World Service Trust was created in 1999 as an independent charity within
the BBC World Service to promote development through the innovative use of the
media in developing countries and countries in transition. The Trust operates
as a not for profit organisation within the BBC World Service and has access
to an unparalleled resource to provide trusted information to millions of people
around the world. The Trust has produced a series of projects in many of the
world's poorest countries, developing the capacity of local and national media,
building civil society, providing training in media skills and developing health
and educational campaigns.
CAF/SCO
www.cafsco.nl
CAF/SCO is a Dutch foundation that supports independent media in countries in
development. Its objective is to contribute to the democratisation processes
by promoting freedom of information, pluriformity of the news supply and opinion
forming in the developing world. The site provides information on local media
initiatives supported by CAF/SCO, with commentaries by practitioners in the
field. It also offers local organisations that are planning projects on independent
media the possibility of applying for grants.
Cimera
www.cimera.org
Cimera focuses on media development in Central Asia and the Caucasus and it
combines academic research and practical experience. The web site provides information
on the region, all the projects, research, and publications. Further, it publishes
the online monthly Media Insight Central Asia.
Communications Initiative
www.comminit.com
The Communications Initiative is a partnership of development organisations
seeking to support advances in the effectiveness and scale of communication
interventions for positive international development. The network provides an
extensive listing of links to programmes and organisations in the development
and communication sectors thereby aiming to advocate the effectiveness of communication
for sustainable development, including peacebuilding.
CPJ (Committee to Protect Journalists)
www.cpj.org
The Committee is a non-partisan, non-profit organisation which was founded in
1981 to monitor abuses against the press and promote press freedom around the
world. By publicly revealing abuses against the press and by acting on behalf
of imprisoned and threatened journalists, the CPJ effectively aims to warn journalists
and news organisations where attacks on press freedom are occurring. The CPJ
also publishes articles and news releases, special reports an annual report
on attacks against the press around the world, all of which are available online.
Domovina Net
www.domovina.net
The Domovina Net web site is a resource for Southeast Europe news. It has RealAudio
and RealVideo footage of Internews' New Bridges television programme, and provides
live coverage of the International War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.
European Platform for Conflict Prevention and Transformation (EPCPT)
www.conflict-prevention.net
The web site is a valuable source of information on conflicts and conflict prevention
and peacebuilding world-wide. The web site hosts surveys of 63 conflicts around
the world, stories of efforts by non-state actors to prevent or resolve conflicts,
profiles and contact details of international and local organisations working
to prevent or resolve conflicts, references to publications on conflict prevention.
It has a special focus on literature produced by NGOs and research institutes,
information on events, conferences and campaigns focusing on conflict prevention
and peacebuilding.
Fondation Hirondelle
www.hirondelle.org
The Hirondelle Foundation is an organisation of journalists, which sets up and
operates media services in crisis areas. Information on all the ongoing projects
and past projects can be found online (e.g. Radio Okapi, Studio Moris Hamutuk,
Radio Ndeke Luka, Hirondelle News Agency).
IFEX (International Freedom of Expression Exchange)
www.ifex.org
The IFEX web site provides an extensive collection of links, subdivided along
various topics concerning media, freedom of expression, and human rights. The
web site contains an archive of freedom of expression alerts and the weekly
Newsletter, Communiqué. Moreover, IFEX's web site provides a list and extensive
descriptions of member organisation active in the field of media and peacebuilding.
These organisations sometimes have few resources and thus IFEX also acts as
their platform to the world.
IFJ (International Federation of Journalists)
www.ifj.org
The IFJ represents around 500,000 journalists world-wide and its web site contains
regularly updated information on topics related to press freedom and the discriminatory
use of the media.
IJNET (The International Journalist's Network)
www.ijnet.org
Produced by the International Center for Journalists this web site is an online
service for journalists, media practitioners, trainers and anybody interested
in the state of the media. The site provides background information on the media
situation in many countries, training opportunities and a journalists' online
forum for the exchange of information and experiences.
IMPACS (The Institute for Media, Policy and Civil Society)
www.impacs.org
IMPACS is a Canadian NGO committed to the protection and expansion of democracy
and to strengthening civil society. It has an extensive media and peacebuilding
programme with resources and relevant links. It's website has information on
research and active programming in the field of media and peacebuilding, research
results and provides downloads of several relevant publications and programmes
reports, and other resources and links.
IMS (International Media Support)
www.i-m-s.dk
IMS is committed to freedom of expression and related international human rights
standards endorsed by the international community, and provides support to media,
which promote democratic development. Information on the different regional
projects in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America can be found online
besides several resources and research papers on the subject.
INCORE (Initiative on Conflict Resolution & Ethnicity)
www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/cds/themes/media.html
The web site of INCORE contains a comprehensive collection of links and documents.
The host of information is subdivided along various lines. There are regularly
updated country guides, which provide a list of news sources, discussion groups,
academic links, and NGOs by country. There is also a list of peace agreements,
an ethnic conflict research digest with bibliographies of recently published
documents, and a list of thematic guides on subjects related to media and conflict
resolution.
Institute for Media, Peace and Security
www.mediapeace.org
The Institute is an integral part of the United Nations University for Peace
and aims to contribute to new thinking about how free media can help prevent
conflict and alert decision-makers, as well as the general public, to looming
risks of war. It has an extensive resource centre with over 2100 annotated sites,
books and articles besides the information on its own research projects.
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
www.iwpr.net
IWPR manages media programmes in Afghanistan, the Balkans, the Caucasus and
Central Asia, with a special reporting project on war crimes tribunals and on
all these programmes it provides extensive information. Further, the Institute
analyses regional media on professional performance and political influence
and publishes this information trough their Internet Reporting Service.
Internews
www.internews.org
Internews offers an extensive overview about the organisation and its projects
on their web site. Next to an organisational profile, the web site provides
information on its different activities worldwide. The web sites of the various
regional Internews offices can be accessed through links on the main web site
offering more specific information on regional activities. Moreover, Internews
provides the latest news related to their activities and projects. Since September
11th they have had a special section on Media Peace and War which includes analyses,
reports, and commentary on media and war and peace issues, with a focus on how
open media promote peace and understanding.
IPI (International Press Institute)
www.freemedia.at
The IPI works from the idea that freedom of expression is the right that protects
all other rights and that this freedom needs to be promoted and defended. The
freemedia web site provides up-to-date media related stories and links to the
latest IPI events. Next to various IPI publications and reports it also contains
a weekly-updated news bulletin with information on press freedom monitoring.
Moreover, the site has an extensive link section to web sites of related organisations.
IRIN news
www.irinnews.org
The site of the Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN), part of the
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is an extensive
information resource on humanitarian topics, including peacebuilding. The network
provides reports on Sub-Sahara Africa and recently also on Central Asia. IRIN
enhances news with further analysis and details of essential interest to the
humanitarian and disaster-relief community. For example summaries of relevant
UN and NGO reports, among others, are often included in IRIN reports with information
on how to access the original document.
Media Action
www.mediaaction.org
Media Action International is a Swiss based NGO that aims to bridge the gap
between journalism and humanitarian, post-conflict and development activities.
The site offers information about its projects and publications and field guides
to humanitarian and conflict zones, especially Afghanistan.
MediaChannel
www.mediachannel.org
MediaChannel.org is a non-profit public interest web site dedicated to global
media issues. It offers news, reports and commentary from their international
network of media-issues organisations and publications, as well as original
features from contributors and staff. Resources include thematic special reports,
action toolkits, forums for discussion, an indexed directory of hundreds of
affiliated groups and a search engine constituting one of the largest online
media-issues databases.
Media News
www.niza.nl/medianews
Media News is the quarterly published online newsletter of NiZA's (Netherlands
Institute for Southern Africa) media programme. It offers news, analyses, interviews
and background information about developments of the media sector in southern
Africa. On the main page all information on the different projects NiZA undertakes
can be found.
Media Online
www.mediaonline.ba
This is an online journal concerned with the situation of the media in Southeast
Europe. The journal provides information on the media situation as well as comprehensive
short and long-term analyses and reports. The journal is composed of two main
segments - the informative section, bringing daily news and updates on events
in Southeast European media, and a research section, providing media analyses
and reports of varying scope.
MISA (Media Institute of Southern Africa)
www.misa.org
The role of MISA is primarily one of a coordinator, facilitator and communicator
and its flagship activity is the monitoring of violations of media freedom,
freedom of expression and the right to information. Information on the current
programmes is presented on the site as well as resources and documentation focussing
on southern Africa.
Panos Institute/ MediaNet
www.panosinst.org
The Panos web site is a source of news, opinions and perspectives from developing
countries, and provides information on a wide range of topics about the developing
world and the projects Panos undertakes, especially the MediaNet project. This
is an electronic network of connected international and national journalists.
Links to all other Panos Institutes are provided where information on all other
projects can be found. Also see: Panos London www.panos.org.uk and Panos Paris
www.panosparis.org
Reporters without Borders (RSF)
www.rsf.org
RSF is a journalist advocacy association working for freedom of the press worldwide
and the safety of all journalists. They monitor press freedom violations and
keep track of journalist casualties, murders and imprisonment. They annually
publish a report on the status of press freedom in more than 150 countries,
which can be found on the site.
Reporting the World
www.reportingtheworld.org
The Reporting the World web site provides a forum with the latest discussions
on the ethics of journalism and aims to act as a journalism think-tank. It has
electronic versions of the Reporting the World findings book and transcripts
of several seminars it has organised.
Search for Common Ground (SFCG)
www.sfcg.org
The Search for Common Ground web site provides an extensive overview of the
organisation's media activities in the different regions. The various regional
web sites offer detailed information on the different projects of SFCG and partners.
Its production division, Common Ground Productions, provides further descriptions
of the different media content produced. This ranges from youth television drama
to radio soap operas and Internet sites.
SIPAZ
www.sipaz.net/index.php (only in Spanish)
Sistema de Comunicacion para la Paz, is a network of some forty local radio
stations in the different regions of Colombia working on informing the rural
community and involving them in the civil society and to thereby create a stronger
community media presence. The site provides information and essays on several
development and media issues in Colombia and has an electronic newsletter.
Swiss Peace Foundation: KOFF Centre for Peacebuilding
www.swisspeace.org
The Swiss Peace Foundation has a Centre for peacebuilding which is actively
involved in the role of media in Peacebuilding. Reports on the subject and seminar
reports are available online, plus several other resources on peacebuilding
and media.
Track Two Thematic Issue on Media and Conflict
ccrweb.ccr.uct.ac.za/two/index.html
Track Two is the quarterly publication of the Centre for Conflict Resolution
and the Media Peace Centre to promote innovative and constructive approaches
to community and political conflict, as an alternative to traditional adversarial
tactics. Media and Conflict was the theme of Vol. 7 No. 4 December 1998, available
online.
TRANSCEND
www.transcend.org
The web site provides articles and publications on peacebuilding, columns, speeches
by Johan Galtung, and information on Peace Journalism. Information on courses
in conflict prevention and searching for peace by peaceful means is also available.
Transitions Online
www.tol.cz
Media development NGO Transitions Online is dedicated to using Internet technologies
to help strengthen professionalism, independence, and the impact of journalism
- and individual journalists - in post-communist Central and Eastern Europe,
the Balkans, and the former Soviet Union. The web site offers: reporting, in-depth
analysis, cross-border perspectives, and coverage of all of the region's 28
post-communist countries.
TV Radio World
www.tvradioworld.com
TV Radio World is a comprehensive directory of radio and television broadcasters
around the globe. The directory is organised by region and furthermore by country.
Next to broadcasting information the site also includes information on the broadcasting
industry, community broadcasters, shortwave radio, and Internet broadcasting.
UNESCO
www.unesco.org
The communication development web site of UNESCO provides an extensive overview
of UNESCO's different projects and programmes. The main web site is divided
into four relevant categories: Strengthening Communication Capacities, Print
Media, Broadcasting, and Media & Society.