40 years of shaping the meaning of media development
FROM buying and upgrading technical equipment to fixing the institutions and the ecosystem of news, the approach to media development has changed over the past 40 years. With the advent of new technologies, the role of media in achieving sustainable development has new frontiers. Yet with the changes, serious threats to media sustainability have also come along. How is UNESCO, through the role of its unique media development programme, adapting to the new times and preparing for the future? Q&A with Guy Berger and Rosa Gonzalez, secretary and deputy secretary of the IPDC Guy Berger 1. For anyone not familiar…