Blog Posts By

Mark Nelson

20 Jul

What are media development donors funding?

Never has the question of media development funding seemed more urgent. Not only is the media going through baffling change...

16 Feb

In the age when everything is going digital, is there a place for public service broadcasting?

That’s the question we will try to answer this week in a special trans-Atlantic dialogue featuring a new CIMA report with...

11 Jan

State takeover of public media in Poland: Is an illiberal axis emerging within the EU’s walls?

The Polish Media Development Success Story In the early 1990s, Poland went through one of the most far-reaching and, at tim...

15 Sep

To give democracy a fighting chance, get serious about the media environment

Today is International Democracy Day: Thoughts on media’s role in democratic institutions We’ve known for a lo...

07 May

Five Takeaways From World Press Freedom Day 2015

If anyone needed to be convinced about the importance of press freedom, the events surrounding World Press Freedom Day on M...

03 Mar

A New Website to Reflect Action-Focused Strategy for Media Development

It’s easy to be pessimistic about the state of media in the world today. Despite the global spread of technology and conn...

29 Oct

Post-2015 Goals Should Include Independent Media and other Accountability Elements

Access to information, transparency, independent media, accountability and citizen participation are not being adequately a...

30 Sep

MDIF’s Impact Dashboard: A Case Study in Measuring MediaDev

When it comes to measuring success or failure, media developers face many of the same challenges as the rest of the interna...

27 Aug

Lies, damned lies and media development

False facts are a problem everywhere; In developing countries, they’re devastating Accusations of inaccuracies in the new...