Kuwait News agency (Kuna) has launched a new competition for Kuwaiti photo-journalists. The competition includes three criteria’s, landscape photos, journalism and sports photos and digital edited photos.

The International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) has launched a new online workbook designed to help media trainers and journalists implement in-house training on a variety of topics.  The guide aims to expand the foundation’s model by enabling media organizations to use proven techniques based on the IWMF’s Maisha Yetu project, which helped journalists improve reporting on HIV/AIDS, TB and

One of the biggest issues facing local media organizations across the globe is how to survive financially in tough economic times and in a changing community media landscape.

Internews Network and Internews Europe recently launched a report on mobile telephones and local media, which addresses the challenges and potentials of the mobile phone as a new avenue for media communication.

A new report commissioned by the Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) at the Washington, D.C.-based National Endowment for Democracy (NED) examines the "insidious" use of money by governments to influence news coverage. Through examining the often overlooked method of manipulating the news, particularly in countries where democracies are fragile and there is no culture of strong,

A new media monitoring report reveals that from July to September 2008, Moldova's media lacked professionalism in the manner in which they covered corruption-related issues, including the mismanagement of public funds, and anti-corruption steps. The report, titled "Assessing Media Coverage of Corruption," prepared by the Independent Journalism Centre (IJC) with support from the U.S.

Media development organizations and journalists can access a report on media and women in Ghana. The report, released by Journalists for Human Rights (JHR), examines womens rights in Ghana, Ghanaian radio and its portrayal in the media.

The World Bank recently released a report that highlights the role of communication in governance and peacebuilding of fragile states. Titled “Towards a New Policy Model for Media and Communication in Post-Conflict and Fragile States,” the report provides lessons from the experiences of the Office of Transition Initiatives at the U.S.

The media plays a vital role in keeping corruption in check and can play a key role in treating a country afflicted with corruption. A report is now available on Sri Lankan media and corruption published by Free Media Movement (FMM) and the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ). To access the report click here. 

This report, released by the Society for Democratic Initiatives (SDI), Sierra Leone as is part of the commemoration activities of the "Right to Know Day," explores Sierra Leone's media landscape exactly a year since the country elected a new government into office.   According the report, in this second phase of Sierra Leone's democratic development,  "Freedom of expression has been give