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CPD Media Monitors follow the development of critical public diplomacy stories in world media. Current Media Monitors feature regularly updated news coverage from a variety of national and international sources on topical stories. The aggregated content is later reviewed and analyzed to produce a Media Monitor Report. The Reports organize media coverage by source, region or topic and provide a synopsis of its main public diplomacy implications.CPD Media Monitors do not intend to assess or comment on the accuracy of media reporting but to provide a representative survey of how various media are framing the coverage of the issues under review.
Current Media Monitors
AFRICOM: AMERICA'S PUBLIC DIPLOMACY AND MILITARY STRATEGY IN AFRICA
June 24, 2007 - Present
This CPD Media Monitor tracks the public diplomacy mandate of the United States' newest military command in Africa, AFRICOM. Updated regularly, the Monitor provides a window into the local African as well as the global perspective on the subject.
PUBLIC DIPLOMACY AND THE BEIJING OLYMPICS: NARRATIVES AND COUNTER NARRATIVES
April 1, 2008 – Present
This CPD Media Monitor follows media coverage of events surrounding the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, China. The Monitor is intended to highlight narrative differences between Chinese press and international English language press.
Latest Media Monitor Reports
ALHURRA AND THE PREDICAMENT OF U.S. INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING TO THE MIDDLE EAST
JUL 10, 2008
By Iskra Kirova
Alhurra – “The Free One” – is a U.S. government-funded broadcaster available throughout the Middle East. Established in 2004, Alhurra, along with its FM radio counterpart, Radio Sawa (launched in 2002), represent America’s largest commitment to public diplomacy in the region. Over the last six years, the U.S. government has invested just under $500 million dollars in the two broadcasters.
Past Media Monitor Reports
UNIVERSITY DIPLOMACY — US : 0, IRAN : 1
OCT 21, 2007
By Iskra Kirova
Ever since his rise to power in 2005 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has enjoyed being in the spotlight of American attention. Not without the help of the news media and the White House's preoccupation with his persona, the Iranian President successfully managed to turn many of his public appearances into public diplomacy triumphs.
LIVE EARTH: A PUBLIC DIPLOMACY THAT SPARKED NEW INTEREST IN FIGHT OF GLOBAL WARMING
AUG 6, 2007
By Vivien Pertusot
On July 7, Live Earth kicked off a three-year campaign to combat global warming by organizing massive pop concerts all around the world. Live Earth represented an attempt to combine both old-fashioned and cutting-edge trends in social mobilization.
THE EUROPEAN UNION, A “QUIET SUPERPOWER” OR A RELIC OF THE PAST
MAR 30, 2007
By Iskra Kirova
The discussion on the future of the European Union has direct relevance to the study and practice of soft power and public diplomacy. Being the most successful advance in voluntary international cooperation in modern history , the European Union has made soft power by far the most prominent instrument in its foreign policy. The E.U.'s power of attraction is based upon values of peaceful cooperation through dialogue manifested in 50 years of deepening integration; the common market of free movement of people, goods, services and capital; and the European social model of the modern welfare state, which accounts for the prosperity and social stability of the region today.
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