Community media are now widely recognized by governments and the international development community both for their reach and for their practices, that is, the ways in which they reach people. Recognition has led more and more governments (sometimes reluctantly, under pressure to democratize) to introduce laws and regulations that include community media. What this means is that community media are increasingly being shaped and defined within mainstream systems, as a "third" tier of media. Community media are being defined in relation to the "first" and "second" tiers of commercial and public...