Public Journalism Interest Group

A Public Journalism Model for the Middle East and North Africa:
Effectiveness of Media-NGO Relationships in Partial Autocracies

By

David C. Coulson
School of Journalism
University of Nevada, Reno

Leonard Ray Teel
Center for International Media Education
Georgia State University, Atlanta

Contact:
David C. Coulson
School of Journalism
University of Nevada, Reno
Reno, NV 89557-0040
775/784-6898
coulson@unr.edu

Paper presented at AEJMC National Convention,
Kansas City, August 2003

Acknowledgments

         The authors wish to recognize the contributions to their research of two colleagues: David Cheshier of Georgia State University who shared with us the literature on democratization and civil society in the Arab World and Chike Anyaegbunam of the University of Kentucky whose knowledge of public journalism in an international context encouraged us.

A Public Journalism Model for the Middle East and North Africa:
Developing Media-NGO Relationships in Emerging Civil Societies

By

David C. Coulson and Leonard Ray Teel

ABSTRACT

         This study examines how the media and non-governmental organizations can cooperate to develop a form of public journalism in emerging civil societies in the Middle East and North Africa. Despite restrictions upon media where they are owned or controlled by government, journalists increasingly have opportunities to cooperate with NGOs that address unmet needs, contributing to the development of civil society. [Download Full Text]