Blog posts by year and monthOctober 2013
Posts (8)
The Arab Spring in the winter sun
BBC Media Action's research manager Karen Wespieser on new research about what audiences want from the media in Tunisia.
Citizen journalism: in pursuit of accountability in India
Parul Agrawal, the BBC Media Action Fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, discusses how Indians are using citizen journalism to get their voices heard.
Communication is life!
BBC Media Action's Joyce Nyaboga on how a hands-on demo at a recent Nairobi event showed how to develop two-way communication with communities during a humanitarian crisis.
Putting communities at the heart of climate change communications
BBC Media Action's Rishika Das Roy on how villagers in rural Odisha used a toolkit from the Climate Asia project to help them to respond to climate change.
Fragile States: It’s time to focus on society
BBC Media Action's Director of Policy and Learning on how a Wilton Park conference on the role of media and communication in fragile states challenged existing thinking.
Sierra Leone after Charles Taylor
As Charles Taylor lost his appeal last month against his sentence for war crimes, BBC Media Action's Alpha Karama blogs about how a radio programme gave survivors of Sierra Leone’s civil war the chance to respond, reflect and demand more of their government.
“Didi, please don’t let Mehendi die!”
BBC Media Action's Radharani Mitra on how fans of show Khirki Mehendiwali (‘Mehendi Opens A Window’), a radio health show in India, came together for a special event in Bhopal – and begged for another series of the programme.
A breath of fresh air
Shefali Chaturvedi on how a radio programme opens a window to provide "life-saving oxygen" for isolated villagers in Madhya Pradesh in India.
