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SKILLS 4 MEDIA TRAINING – Call for ApplicationsApplications are now being sought for Skills for Media Engagement, a one-day intensive interactive media training workshop designed to offer a selected cohort of 20 ECRs specialist skills which will enable them to communicate effectively with, and for the media – radio, television, film and online media. The workshop relies on intense discussion and collaborative activity and will bring early career researchers (ECRs) together with media professionals, including Chris Jameson and Tony Prideaux (Inside Edge Media Training), Samira Ahmed (freelance journalist), Jodi Thompson (Huffington Post) and Lisa Horton (Media Relations Manager, UEA). ECRs research profiles will be published via the project website before the workshop and made available to the media professionals to encourage dialogue with contributors.

• Training will take at a workshop held at the Open University’s Camden site on 16 June 2014.

• Key learning outcomes are:

• To gain awareness of how the media works

• To understand the challenges of collaborating with the media

• To learn about strategies for tailoring messages for specific media outputs and audiences

• To learn how to prepare for media interviews

• To develop the confidence and skills required to deliver research ideas and contribute to debates through the media

APPLICATION PROCEDURE - Visit http://skills4media.wordpress.com/

Media and Development by Martin Scott

(Zed Books)

Media matters. From encouraging charitable donations and delivering public health messages to promoting democratic participation and state accountability, the media can play a crucial role in development. Yet the influence of the media is not always welcome. It can also be used as a mechanism of surveillance and control or to disseminate hate speech and propaganda.

How then should we respond to the growing importance of the media - including journalism, radio, television, community media and social media - for poverty and inequality? The first step is to acquire an informed and critical understanding of the multiple roles that the media can have in development. To help achieve this, this book provides concise and original introductions to the study and practice of communication for development (C4D), media development and media representations of development. In doing so it highlights the increasing importance of the media, whilst at the same time emphasising the varieties, complexities and contingencies of its role in social change.

The broad and interdisciplinary focus of this book will make it attractive to anyone with an interest in media, communication, development, politics and social change.