This report reviews how the digital and social media revolution of the past decade has transformed the style and contents of media development projects around the world. It shares the views of a range of practitioners and expert observers both on the successes of this evolution and on the concerns it raises for the media...

The Reuters Institute Annual Digital News Report reveals new insights about digital news consumption based on a representative survey of online news consumers conducted by YouGov. The 2014 report includes 10 countries; the UK, US, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Finland, Urban Brazil, Japan and Denmark. The 2014 report contains unique data and analysis about the...

This thesis examines news coverage of conflict in Fiji, Papua New Guinea (PNG), and West Papua by two prominent media sources in New Zealand - Radio New Zealand's Morning Report (MR) and the New Zealand Herald (NZH). The news coverage will be analysed through a peace journalism framework. Peace journalism is an approach to reporting...

The Media and Indigenous Policy Report is an outcome of 'The Australian News Media and Indigenous Policymaking 1988-2008' project, funded by an ARC Discovery Project grant. It investigated how journalism impacts on the development of Indigenous social policy. Analysis of media and policy texts, and interviews with experts from government, media and Indigenous advocacy organisations...

The news media has been a forum for commentary and conversation about social and cultural issues. At its best, journalism has been a professional practice that has done all these things ethically and fairly. Until recently, newspapers and the print media have been the central institution through which these functions of journalism have operated. Today...