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The top level boxes in light blue identify major categories of media influences and internal and
external roles and responsibilities. The lower level boxes in yellow identify sub-categories of
media influences (such as access to information) and roles and responsibilities related to each of
the major categories. These are general headings and as such comprise a number of different
media influences and activities.
Media priorities discussed in the following section are organized by these categories and
subcategories. Some subcategories are not discussed; those that are not discussed were not
mentioned at all by workshop participants or to a significant degree by interviewees.
Media Priorities for Democratization
The stakeholders participating in the strategy prioritization workshop identified their vision of
the media sector as one that meets the needs of the people and serves as the “fourth pillar” (that
is, the fourth estate) of government, parallel to the executive, legislature, and judiciary.
Discussions on priorities centered on four categories, with the following order of prioritization:
1.
Professional Skills: addressing needs among individual journalists.
2.
Supporting Infrastructure: such as broadcast signals or journalist associations.
3.
Internal Capacity: addressing issues within individual outlets.
4.
The Enabling Environment: such as the legal framework.
Workshop participants almost universally chose professional skills as their number one priority,
with supporting infrastructure receiving some interest as well. Internal capacity was the third
chosen priority category followed by enabling environment, which emerged as the lowest
priority. Stakeholder interviews also identified professional skills as their top concern.
Media participants, through interviews, strategy workshop outputs and discussions, prioritized
different subcategories of media influences and roles and responsibilities. The prioritized
subcategories are highlighted below with red boxes:
