UN meetings are often bureaucratic. This one has a sense of urgency.
With its rather dull title, the UN High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development is taking place in New York 9-18 July 2019. Its theme...
This issue of Media Development goes in search of the missing UN Sustainable Development Goal that underpins all the other SDGs.
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Towards the end of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Miranda says,
“O, wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in’t!”...
Digital communication technologies have become ubiquitous and policymakers are still struggling to respond with appropriate infrastructure and governance models.
...Honesty and trust underpin WACC's advocacy of communication rights.
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Discovering new ways to be effective as well as strategic.
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The voice of the people is all very well as long as it can be ignored. While official archives and libraries are subject to authoritarian control, while newspapers can be relied upon to reflect the views and opinions of those in power, and while...
Today, profound changes in the newspaper and journalism industries together with technological convergence risk “seeing much weaker local news media that do less in terms of holding power to account and keeping people informed, less to encourage civic and political engagement, and less to foster...
The Rev. Dr Hans W. Florin, former WACC General Secretary, has died after a short illness.
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International principles of journalism ethics stress the duty of professional communicators to seek truth and to provide fair...