Measures of Press Freedom and Media Contributions to Development

Monroe E. Price is Director of the Center for Global Communication Studies at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania; Professor of Law and Director of the Howard M. Squadron Program in Law, Media, and Society at the Cardozo School of Law, where he served as Dean from 1982 to 1991; and Director of the Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research, London. Susan Abbott is Deputy Director of Program Development at Internews Network, an international media development organization, and is responsible for working with Internews programs worldwide on monitoring and evaluation, and research and learning. Abbott was previously Associate Director of the Center for Global Communication Studies at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. Prior to this she was a program officer in the Media Development Division at the International Research and Exchanges Board in Washington, DC. Libby Morgan is Associate Director of the Center for Global Communication Studies at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. In this position she works on the Center’s publication initiatives and supports the development, planning, and administration of CGCS’s policy and training activities.

Contents: Monroe E. Price: Press Freedom Measures: An Introduction – Lee B. Becker/Tudor Vlad: The Conceptualization and Operationalization of Country-Level Measures of Media Freedom – Patrick McCurdy/Gerry Power/Anna Godfrey: When Theory Meets Practice: Critical Reflections from the Field on Press Freedom Indices – Andrew Puddephatt: Examining and Critiquing Existing Measures of Media Development – Fackson Banda: What Are We Measuring? A Critical Review of Media Development Assessment Tools – Guobin Yang: Press Freedom and Transnational Online Activism in China – Christina Holtz-Bacha: Freedom of the Press: Is a Worldwide Comparison Possible and What is it Good For? – Andrei Richter: Post-Soviet Perspective on Evaluating Censorship and Freedom of the Media – Derek E. Bambauer: Comparing Cybersieves – Nicole Stremlau: Towards a New Approach to Evaluation – Craig L. LaMay: What Works? The Problem of Program Evaluation – Andy Mosher: Good, But How Good? Monitoring and Evaluation of Media Assistance Projects – Susan Abbott/Maureen Taylor: Measuring the Impact of Media Assistance Programs: Perspectives on Research-Practitioner Collaboration – Shanthi Kalathil: Measuring the Media: Examining the Interdisciplinary Approach – Thomas Jacobson/Lingling Pan/ Seung Joon Jun: Indicators of Citizen Voice for Assessing Media Development: A Communicative Action Approach – Russell S. Sobel/Nabamita Dutta/Sanjukta Roy: Beyond Borders: Is Media Freedom Contagious? – Silvio Waisbord: The Global Promotion of Media Diversity: Revisiting Operational Models and Bureaucratic Imperatives.