The multi-year Strengthening Independent Media Initiative (SIM) is bringing greater strategic focus and coordination to the field of independent media development. 
Guy Berger from the School of Journalism and Media Studies at Rhodes University in South Africa takes a look at what happens when those researching media development get in a room with those funding media development. Read his reactions here.
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Students from around the world go "unplugged" from media for 24 hours
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A New Media Model for the Developing World?
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News from the November 2010 African Media Leaders Forum
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To read about a meeting of researchers and scholars held at the Open Society Institute in New York, click here and here.
