Middle East Media Research

Stanhope is actively researching the rapidly changing environment of Middle Eastern media:

The Iraq Media Developments Newsletter, a periodical email managed by Monroe Price and Matthew Burton, has been archiving media and telecommunications news since May 2003. We've archived over 400 articles, interviews and documents pertinent to the reconstruction of Iraq's communication structures.

In June 2003, The Stanhope Centre, working with several other international organizations, published Designs for Democratic Media in Iraq, a comprehensive plan to restore Iraq's media structure.

Graduate students at the London School of Economics are currently researching Iraqi and Afghan media development as part of Stanhope's Media Development Paper Series.

We've also archived official documentation of the Coalition Provisional Authority and the U.S. Departments of State and Defense. The below documents are the core of Iraqi communications and U.S. public diplomacy policies.

• CPA Order 65 (Media Commission)
• CPA Order 66 (Public Service Broadcasting)
• CPA Order 14 (inciting violence)
• Iraqi Media Network tender
• Iraqi Media Network contract interested parties list
• Changing Minds, Winning Peace: A New Strategic Direction for U.S. Public Diplomacy in the Arab World
• Iraq Television Viewership Poll, Department of State Office of Intelligence and Research, November 2003
• Middle East Press Freedom (compilation of State Department's annual human rights report), February 2004
• Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Hearing: Finding the Right Media for the Message in the Middle East