Media Production

MEDIA PRODUCTION

Why does it matter?

Sometimes, important stories just don’t make the headlines. Whether they are overlooked because of a lack of media resources, self-censorship or a crisis situation, the absence of coverage is never without consequences. Till a few years back, despite the devastation caused by the epidemic, there was little coverage of HIV/AIDS in South-East Asia and the few reports that were seen were partial and unconstructive. Meanwhile, in times of crisis, just when media infrastructure and personnel are unable to function properly, their communities are in urgent need of life-saving information.

How do we work?

When media cannot fulfill its mandate properly, when marginalised groups are ignored and important issues overlooked, Internews Europe temporarily takes up the task of providing communities with quality media productions. By applying the same principles we impart to media organisations in our training programmes, we address the most sensitive subjects and create compelling and eye-opening content with the highest standards of production.

“During the war, we took drugs, alcohol and [we] took women by force… a lack of education among men contributed to all this violence. This film, La guerre dans le ventre, has to be shown in villages to educate people about sexual violence.”

Ex-combatant at the Mutobo demobilisation camp in Rwanda, December 2008

What difference does it make?

Internews Europe produced programmes that informed hundreds of thousands victims of the 2004 tsunami, the 2005 Pakistan earthquake or, more recently, in Haiti. Thousands of people in refugee camps in Chad received vital information on air in the Arabic, French, Massalit and Zaghawa languages. Similarly, Indian micro-entrepreneurs in the slums of Kolkota and Mongolian herders receive business news specifically tailored for their needs, to enable them to improve their livelihoods

Who do we reach through our media production activities?

General Public

Through TV productions like the MTV Elements series, Internews Europe, in co-operation with leading media partners, aims to create a strand of youth programming - television, web and other digital media - on the big picture issues shaping the lives of young people as they grow up in an interconnected, but finite, world.

Disaster Affected Communities

Access to information, in local languages, about basic necessities such as health, food, shelter or safety, is a life line in times of crisis. When local media is silent, catching its breath and trying to get back on its feet, Internews Europe produces information that is most urgently needed and gives a voice to the affected population so that they can share their perspectives and claim their role in the humanitarian effort.

Marginalised Groups

Everybody aspires to be heard, whether HIV+ individuals in South Asia, survivors of the genocide in Rwanda or individuals around the globe discriminated against because of national origin, disabilities, age or sexual orientation. They want to be recognised as a unique and valuable part of their society and exert their universal rights to access information and express their opinions. Internews Europe gives them the tools and the access to media and information that supports these aspirations.

NEWS ABOUT Media Production

2010.08.31

> InfoAsAid

Radio offers a lifeline to Pakistan as crisis worsens

Wednesday 3 August 2010 - In response to the devastating floods in northern Pakistan, a new infoasaid service will start broadcasting lifeline radio programmes in the most severely affected areas through the BBC Urdu service.Developed by BBC World Service Trust and Internews, the infoasaid service will transmit lifesaving information to the hundreds of thousands of people currently cut off from emergency aid efforts and most at risk.BBC Urdu will transmit six daily bulletins in Urdu and Pashto providing vital information including how to stay safe, avoid disease and access aid.*

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Global, Humanitarian Response, Media And Society, Media Production, Support To Journalists

2010.08.31

> My SME News India

Internews invited as guest speaker on RFI’s "l’Atelier des Médias"

On Wednesday 30th June, Elsa Caternet and Agathe Dalisson (Project Director and International Projects Coordinator respectively at Internews Europe) were invited to participate in the recording of Ziad Maalouf’s «L’Atelier des Médias» on RFI, accompanied by Sree Rameshaiah from Mahiti, Internews’ partner in India.During the programme, two projects supported by Internews were presented, Freedom Fone in Zimbabwe and MySMENews in India, both representing excellent examples of the use of mobile telephony at the service of social development and of

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India, Economic Development, Media Production, Media Professionalisation, Technology

2010.06.26

Internews opens Media House in Trincomalee

The dark clouds of war that cast gloom over the district of Trincomalee in the east coast of Sri Lanka over the last three decades have receded. Yet the district has to grapple with myriad post war challenges. Many a bridge has to be built to bring together the people of different ethnicities that have been polarized by the long years of ethno –political conflict and war. Trust and confidence needs to be strengthened between the diverse groups of inhabitants of the district. People need to unite; to work collectively to rebuild and develop their district.

Sri Lanka, Humanitarian Response, Media And Society, Media Production, Media Professionalisation

2010.02.19

> Haiti Humanitarian Infomation Service

M-giving For Haiti Is a Snap At Mobile World Congress

Through the campaign “Everybody Wins” Campaign NeoMedia allows delegates at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona to donate money to Haitian relief efforts by simply snapping a barcode with their mobile phones.

Mobile World Congress will witness the dawn of a new era of M-giving: innovative mobile barcode application allows delegates to give “ simply” using mobile barcode ecosystem.

Haiti, Humanitarian Response, Media And Society, Media Production, Technology

Projects

InfoAsAid

The overall goal of Info as Aid is to enhance the efficiency of rapid humanitarian responses by maximising the amount of accurate and timely information available to both humanitarian responders and affected populations through enhanced information exchange between them, in the critical first few days and weeks of emergencies.

Global
Start date 06/2010	End date 03/2011
Issues : Humanitarian Response
Activities : Media and Society Media Production Support to Journalists
Partners : BBC World Service Trust
Funders : Department for International Development (DFID)
Media Type : Mobile Phone Radio Online Print TV

Haiti Humanitarian Infomation Service

Since the devastating 7.0 Richter earthquake in Haiti on January 12, 2010, Internews has been working on the ground with local Haitian media and humanitarian aid agencies to get critical information directly to the people who need it most.

Haiti
Start date 01/2010	End date 07/2010
Issues : Humanitarian Response
Activities : Media and Society Media Production Technology
Partners : Radio France International Reporters Sans Frontières Ushahidi
Funders : United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
Media Type : Radio Online

Reporting for a Better Future in Rwanda

This project works to give Rwandan journalists high-quality health journalism training and long-term mentoring, enabling them to disseminate information on reproductive health services, family planning, preventive health measures, nutrition, HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria in a compelling, scientifically accurate, non-stigmatising way.

Rwanda
Start date 01/2009	End date 06/2010
Issues : Health
Activities : Media and Society Media Production Media Professionalisation Support to Journalists
Partners : Rwanda Health Communication Center Ministry of Health Unicef ABASIRWA
Funders : Delegation of the European Union to Rwanda
Media Type : Radio Online Print

Chad Humanitarian Information Service

Since 2005, Internews, in conjunction with its local partner, the Association pour le Développement des Médias Communautaires (ADMC), has developed a programme to meet the critical information needs of Darfuri refugees and the local Chadian population living in eastern Chad. Internews has created a newsroom and studio in Abéché to produce multi-lingual news programmes and a community radio station in Iriba, Radio Absoun. The Chad Humanitarian Information Service currently reaches 163,000 refugees, 40,000 IDPs (internally displaced persons) and a host population of 180,000 Chadians in Abeche, Iriba and Goz Beida.

Chad
Start date 09/2008	End date 09/2010
Issues : Humanitarian Response
Activities : Media Production Media Professionalisation
Partners : Internews Network
Funders : Department for International Development (DFID)
Media Type : Radio

Media and Stabilisation Action in Sri Lanka

The Media and Stabilisation Action project in Sri Lanka aimed to support media workers and humanitarian organisations in Sri Lanka during the last year of the civil war in the island nation. The initiative put an emphasis on collaboration with local organisations and building on the work of national and international organisations in the area of media development. The project worked to advise, inform and help sustain these networks in the context of the Sri Lankan civil war crisis.

Sri Lanka
Start date 08/2008	End date 11/2009
Issues : Stabilisation
Activities : Media Production Media Professionalisation Research and Advocacy Support to Journalists Technology
Partners : Centre for Policy Initiative Group of Five and the Free Media Movement Young Asia Television (YATV)
Funders : European Commission - External Cooperation programmes (EuropeAid)
Media Type : Radio Online Print

Burma (Myanmar)
Start date 05/2008	End date 12/2008
Issues : Humanitarian Response
Activities : Media Production Support to Journalists Technology
Funders : Department for International Development (DFID)
Media Type : Radio

Rwanda-DRC Films and Radio Programmes

This project produced documentary films and radio shows that were tailored to assist the people of Rwanda and eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to understand each other better. In 20 public screenings, more than 15,000 people in Rwanda and DRC viewed the films produced in both countries. The radio shows were aired all over Rwanda and eastern DRC through radio partnerships.

Democratic Republic of the Congo
Start date 05/2008	End date 03/2009
Issues : Stabilisation
Activities : Media and Society Media Production Media Professionalisation
Partners : Rwanda Demobilisation and Reintegration Commission ( RDRC ) ICRC
Funders : Department for International Development (DFID)
Media Type : Radio TV

Filming and screening of rehabilitation work in Mpazi

A documentary that brings to life rehabilitation work in the Mpazi region of Rwanda.

Rwanda
Start date 05/2008	End date 11/2008
Issues : Stabilisation
Activities : Media and Society Media Production
Partners : Rwanda Demobilisation and Reintegration Commission ( RDRC )
Media Type : Radio TV

Business Roaming in Mongolia and China

Providing useful business content and economic data critical to decision-making for herders and rural entrepreneurs in the Mongolian region through the use of innovative information technologies. This project is a rural business information service to support rural livelihoods.

China
Start date 04/2008	End date 03/2010
Issues : Economic Development
Activities : Media Production Media Professionalisation Technology
Partners : Globe International
Funders : European Commission - External Cooperation programmes (EuropeAid)
Media Type : Mobile Phone Radio

Climate Change Media Partnership

The Climate Change Media Partnership supports developing world journalism from the heart of the international climate negotiations. Forty journalists from Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean and the Middle East are selected each year to participate in a climate media fellowship programme designed to improve media coverage of the UN Climate Summits and climate change issues in developing countries.

Global
Start date 04/2008	End date 03/2011
Issues : Environment
Activities : Media and Society Media Production Media Professionalisation Support to Journalists
Partners : Panos International Institute for Environment and Development
Funders : European Commission - External Cooperation programmes (EuropeAid) Department for International Development (DFID) Climate Investment Funds (World Bank)
Media Type : Radio Online Print TV

Media4Diversity

The Media4Diversity project researches the role of the media in both impeding and advancing the diversity agenda in the European Union with a selection of 30 initiatives and 39 recommendations aimed at working with the media sector to change the attitudes of Europeans towards individuals or groups who are currently discriminated against because of their ethnicity, sex, religious beliefs, age or sexual orientation.

Europe
Start date 12/2007	End date 04/2009
Issues : Governance and Human Rights
Activities : Media and Society Media Production Research and Advocacy Support to Journalists
Partners : International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Media Diversity Institute
Funders : European Union - Employment and Social Solidarity Programme (PROGRESS)
Media Type : Radio Online Print TV

My SME News India

My SME (small and medium enterprises) News is a pioneering service that aims to provide the poor in India with essential business news while reaching operating profit within two years at the same time. It leverages the the rapid spread of mobile phones in India’s slums and simultaneously relies on traditional media to reach a broad customer base with individually tailored services. Internews Europe, Mahiti and Plural India launched the My SME News pilot in the slums of Kolkata, West Bengal, for 300,000 micro-finance entrepreneurs. My SME News blends the power of technology with existing realities and social networks in India’s slums and villages to build a ‘Bottom of the Pyramid’ media business. It also makes new models of pro-poor media sustainable in the market place.

India
Start date 12/2007	End date 09/2010
Issues : Economic Development
Activities : Media Production Media Professionalisation Technology
Partners : Mahiti Equal Access Nepal Plural India
Funders : European Commission - External Cooperation programmes (EuropeAid)
Media Type : Mobile Phone Print

Development of the Romanian audiovisual sector

Romania joined the EU on January 1, 2007. In the same month, Internews Europe launched a project on ‘Enhancement and development of professional expertise in the Romanian audiovisual sector’. The project aims to help Romania’s electronic media regulator, the Consiliul National al Audiovizualului (National Audiovisual Council, or CNA), raise the standards of its work. It seeks to strengthen the capacity of the CNA to enable it to apply EU policies to the audiovisual sector in Romania.

Romania
Start date 06/2007	End date 02/2008
Activities : Media Production Media Professionalisation
Partners : Center for Independent Journalism National Radio and Television Commission (ORTT) Media Monitoring Agency Central European University (CEU)
Media Type : TV

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