The Media and Elections topic area was first added to the ACE website in 2001. The topic area’s lead writer was Richard Carver of Oxford Media Research Limited and developed under the supervision of IFES. 

International IDEA managed the revision of the Media and Elections topic area for this current version of ACE.  Richard Carver was again the lead writer, working under the supervision of Virginia Beramendi Heine.  Linda Ederberg and Maiko Shimizu of IDEA provided extensive administrative and copyediting services and uploading material to the website.