Blog Posts By

Don Podesta

10 Oct

Latin American Network Adds Pressure for Media Reform in the Region

For much of the past two years, CIMA, in collaboration with Deutsche Welle Akademie, has been fostering a global series of...

18 Aug

Consulting with Lawmakers on the Media Environment in Latin America

Effective media development work requires the engagement of sectors beyond the media themselves–that is, governments, aca...

26 May

Media in Latin America: A Glass Half Full or Half Empty?

CIMA’s blog has often addressed the sorry state of media in Latin America, and my own posts on the subject have mostly em...

21 Jan

Rebooting Media Development: Stop, Look, Listen

It seems that the media development community is always fighting an uphill battle. It is difficult to demonstrate concrete ...

18 Sep

Ecuador’s Media Watchdog Bites Back

The government of Ecuador is at it again. There’s something about the news media that to the administration of President ...

05 Jun

Takeaways from the World News Media Congress 2015

The three-day-plus meeting of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) in Washington this week pr...

04 Jun

The New Age of Censorship and Intimidation

Sounds, well … intimidating doesn’t it? This was the title of a panel I moderated during the WAN-IFRA’s World News me...

01 May

The Hardships of Soft Censorship

I’ve been writing about soft, or indirect, censorship ever since I left newspapering and joined CIMA nearly seven years a...

29 Apr

Meanwhile, in Latin America…

It’s a sign of how far press freedom in Latin America has sunk that a leading expert on press freedom in the region can p...