How can gender balance be measured in media organizations? What is required to improve the path towards fair gender portrayal in the news? UNESCO and the International Federation of...
Media
Most indices of media are produced for advocacy purposes by international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to promote freedom of speech and to defend and protect journalists. Such indices include the Press Freedom Index by Reporters Without Borders, as well as journalists killed statistics by the Committee to Protect Journalists. These indices rank and compare countries.
In contrast, at country level few initiatives measure media. While global initiatives are useful advocacy tools, there is good reason to believe that nationally owned indices may prove more effective in leading to policy change.
These web pages aim to provide examples of ways to measure media at country level, providing tools and examples while underscoring critical challenges.
Related News
Tools for Assessing Governance
-
Stated purpose: The objective of the standards of municipal transparency is to provide a model guaranteeing access to information in all municipalities of Chile. The &…
-
Stated purpose: This framwork has been prepared in order to define indicators of media development in line with the priority areas of the International Programme for…
Examples of Country Initiatives
-
There has been an ongoing discussion on the actual existence of democracy in Mexico, and already in the 60’s, there was a consensus about Mexico…
MexicoUniversidad Autonoma Metropolitana -
In Nations in Transit, leading regional specialists offer answers by reporting on more than fifty key indicators of political and social reform in twenty…
IndonesiaFreedom HouseFreedom House -
In its work area on "Culture, democracy and development", and going back to the 'New Information Order' and the struggle for the right…
N/ADag Hammarsköld Foundation -
La IA América Latina busca evaluar los sistemas de participación pública nacionales para garantizar el acceso a la informació…
GambiaFundación para la Paz y la Democracia (FUNPADEM)
Global Indicators
-
-
To provide an annual evaluation of the state of global press freedom.
-
Provide a snapshot of the state of press freedoms in a 12 month period (September – September).
-
Designed as a tool to measure media development, as well as to assess changes in media systems over time.
Organizations
-
UNDP is the UN's global development network, an organization advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to…
-
The ACE network promotes credible, and transparent electoral processes with emphasis on sustainability, professionalism and trust in the electoral process…
-
UNESCO promotes international cooperation among its Member States and six Associate Members in the fields of education, science, culture and communication…
-
Freedom House is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, focused on promoting and protecting democracy in general as well as freedom of expression in particular…