Maria Tena Deadline: Rolling Basis
Job Opportunity Internews is seeking to recruit a team of Field Research Assistants to conduct data collection on information about COVID-19 in Thailand and other countries in the region. Field Research Assistant will contribute to efforts to reduce panic and improve public health outcomes.
Global Forum for Media Development Deadline: Rolling Basis
Job Opportunity Internews is seeking to hire a Lead Researcher. The Lead Researcher will manage the implementation of an Information Ecosystem Assessment focusing on Thai-language social media and other online sources of information about COVID-19.
9 March 2019 – New York City
The Joint Journalism and Communication History Conference (JJCHC), co-sponsored by the American Journalism Historians Association and the History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, is now accepting submissions for their 2019 conference.
14-15 February 2019 – Vienna, Austria
ECREA is hosting a Journalism Studies Conference in Vienna in 2019. The conference aims to explore media ecologies, coupled with shifts in public discourse, which are challenging received assumptions about journalism, and therefore also raising fundamental questions for journalism scholars.
Global Forum for Media DevelopmentDeadline: 24 January 2019
Call for proposals: Funding of projects in Malaysia. The thematic is about enhancing CSOs’ Contribution to Governance and Development Processes, notably through the media as key actor to promote good governance, transparency and accountability (Objective 2).
22-23 November – Berlin, Germany
The 2018 FoME Symposium will address media capture, and to what extent this expanding strategy influences democracy, pluralism and freedom of the press and how to prevent “The Silent Takeover” of the free media.
Global Forum for Media DevelopmentOn Nov. 27 at 15:00 CET, GFMD will be hosting a members-only webinar focusing on the challenges of preparing EU funding proposals and, specifically, of responding to the EIDHR Global Call which was launched earlier this month. The webinar is the second instalment in GFMD’s Capacity Building Programme.
15 Nov – 17 Nov, 2018, Prague, Czech Republic
Prague Media Point is a series of annual international conferences, dedicated to discussing the changing media landscape in a professional, political, economic, and social context. These events gather leading academics, journalists, media executives, and experts from around the world to exchange experiences, establish new relationships, and debate challenges facing both traditional and new media. The topic for this iteration of conference is Media and Technology: Innovative Journalism in a Contested Political Space.
27 Sept – 28 Sept, Buenos Aires, Argentina
The International Open Data Conference (IODC) is an event designed to bring the global open data community together in order to learn, share, plan and collaborate on the future of open data. The unique nature of this event is that it gathers together in one location a diverse range of participants from the northern and southern hemispheres to define strategies to advance open data both locally and globally.
Global Forum for Media DevelopmentDeadline: 20 October
Applications for the Iso Lomso Fellowships for Early Career African Researchers are now open. Iso Lomso fellowships provide an exceptional early career opportunity for Africa’s brightest minds in academia.
Global Forum for Media DevelopmentDeadline: 31 October
The Media Diversity Institute (MDI) is looking for experienced international development experts to join our team of consultants for EC Framework Contract projects.
Global Forum for Media DevelopmentDeadline: 21 September
A special issue of Journalism Studies titled “Reporting Global while being Local: Local sources of news for distant audiences” has launched a call for papers.
Global Forum for Media DevelopmentDeadline: Ongoing
The Social Media and Democracy Research Grant Program invites proposals that examine the impact of social media and related digital technologies on democracy and elections.
Global Forum for Media DevelopmentThe Gabriel García Márquez Foundation for New Ibero-American Journalism (FNPI) and the Journalism Studies Center in the University of Andes-Ceper produced a report identifying eight key factors that contribute to understanding the digital audience in Colombia.
Global Forum for Media DevelopmentDiscover why the sharp decline in use of social media for news gives rise to fresh distribution avenues; why low trust in news creates opportunities to develop loyalty with your audiences, and uncover which strategies are delivering sustainable online revenues.
Global Forum for Media DevelopmentA new report from the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) explores the level and quality of media coverage of governance issues in Senegal. Senegalese journalists and media outlets have a strong interest in issues related to corruption and accountability, yet there are very few investigative stories published.
Global Forum for Media DevelopmentThis will be a critical year for the relationship between publishers and platforms, as companies like Google and Facebook fight a rising tide of criticism about their impact on society – and on journalism. In this report Nic Newman looks ahead at the trends that will shape the news industry in 2018.
Global Forum for Media DevelopmentTo assist both practitioners and supporters of investigative journalism, the authors examine a wide variety of views on how to measure the impact of investigative journalism quantitatively. They report that “the metrics available aren’t as straightforward as measuring audience or tracking website traffic”.
Global Forum for Media DevelopmentIn the recent webinar hosted by GFMD, panellists have shared their insights on how audience data can be used for project design, informing project implementation, monitoring, and evaluation, and how it can be used by local news media. This exercise aimed to showcase current developments in the field of digital audience analytics.
Mira MilosevicOn 27 March the EU Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs adopted the Report on media pluralism and media freedom in the EU. The report includes a motion for a European Parliament Resolution, which focuses on the relationship between media pluralism, freedom of expression and democracy in the digital age.