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 2006 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.
The 2012 update to this topic area was carried out by Vanessa Johanson Alpern. Ms. Nellika Little (independent), Dr. Andy Williamson (independent), Ms. Bronwen Harvey (Centre for Democratic Institutions), Ms. Ann Cooper (Columbia Graduate School of Journalism), and Mr. Abdullahi Boru Halakhe (International Crisis Group) are gratefully acknowledged for their input on sections of the topic area.
