Krishna Kumar surveys the nature and significance of international aid designed to build and strengthen independent news media in support of democratization and development. Providing the first comprehensive coverage of media assistance programs, Kumar discusses the evolution, focus, and overall impact of a range of intervention strategies. He also presents seven in-depth case studies based on extensive USAID-sponsored fieldwork; here he examines the context, accomplishments, and failures of efforts in Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Central America, Indonesia, Russia, Serbia, and Sierra Leone. A concluding chapter summarizes the findings of the study and suggests their important implications for international media assistance.
| ISBN: | 9781588264299 |
| Publication date: | 31st January 2006 |
| Author: | Krishna Kumar |
| Publisher: | Lynne Rienner Publishers |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 189 pages |
| Genres: |
Political control and freedoms |
Krishna Kumar surveys the nature and significance of international aid designed to build and strengthen independent news media in support of democratization and development. Providing the first comprehensive coverage of media assistance programs, Kumar discusses the evolution, focus, and overall impact of a range of intervention strategies. He also presents seven in-depth case studies based on extensive USAID-sponsored fieldwork; here he examines the context, accomplishments, and failures of efforts in Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Central America, Indonesia, Russia, Serbia, and Sierra Leone. A concluding chapter summarizes the findings of the study and suggests their important implications for international media assistance.
Promoting Independent Media features in the following genres: Political control and freedoms
Promoting Independent Media is available in Hardback
Promoting Independent Media was written by Krishna Kumar and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers
Promoting Independent Media has 189 pages