Guidelines for Bloggers

Further information about the Communication, Media, and Development Policy blog space, including links to recent blogs, can be found on the main page.

Our principal audience for this blog site is development policy makers and those interested in engaging with them. These include people working in donor and multilateral organisations, “mainstream” development NGOs, civil society organisations, governments, and others who inform development policy. The aim is to make media and communication for development issues relevant to development policy concerns, particularly governance concerns.

Blogs need to be written in a way that assumes a potentially skeptical audience, and in a way that makes few assumptions about a reader’s existing knowledge or sympathies with the arguments put forward. We are looking for clarity and a preparedness to frame issues in ways that make sense to policymakers who are unfamiliar with issues of media and communication for development.

Blogs need to express a viewpoint. We are not interested in announcements of existing papers or events – but instead in new ideas or opinions that stem from the ideas that are presented in existing papers, initiatives, or events.

The site is focused on development policy. It is not heavily focused on issues of media and communication policy (such as issues of regulation). Media policy is of interest only in relation to what ways it affects development policy.

• Length: Between 300 and 1,500 words.

• Quality: Blogs are not automatically accepted. Each blog submitted will be queued for review; The CI reserves the right to suggest edits from a quality perspective. Upon review, blogs will either be returned to the blogger for pursuit elsewhere or posted on the blog space.

• Commitment: Bloggers should ideally commit to the submission of at least 4 blogs within a time span of 4 months.

• Copyright: Blogs submitted to the Communication, Media, and Development Policy blog space must not be under review elsewhere or have appeared in any other published form.

Those interested in Blogging should contact wfeek@comminit.com

We look forward to your blogs!

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