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“Soft Censorship is Very Deleterious for Journ...
This post originally appeared on softcensorship.org. WAN-IFRA Don Podesta, manager and editor at the Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) based within the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) in Washington D.C., published ‘Soft Censorship: How governments around the globe use money t... |
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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 ago. It pains me to say this, but the problem is only getting worse. As we at CIMA and our partners at WAN-IFRA have described it in previous reports: “Soft censorship is used ... |
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Standardizing Censorship: The World’s 10 M...
The Committee to Protect Journalists analyzes the global trends in press freedom each year, chronicling both individual stories and broader institutional frameworks that prohibit the free flow of information from journalists to citizens. This year, CPJ’s analysis includes trends in censorship, hi... |
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The Media is Silenced in Venezuela and Ecuador
Guest post by Ariana Szepesi-ColmenaresIn Ecuador, 254 arbitrary sanctions were made against the press in 2014: that’s a 46 percent increase since 2013, according to data produced by the Ecuadoran organization Fundamedios. For January and February 2015 alone, 46 new direct attacks have challeng... |
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All Cybersecurity All the Time, Part II
As noted in an earlier blog post, cyber surveillance, cyber security, cyber threats, cyber everything has become the flavor of the month in the Washington think tank circuit lately. This week’s entry into the field was provided by the Brookings Institution at a book launch and discussion Wednesday... |
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Reporters Without Borders Releases 2015 Press Fr...
The latest analysis of the state of press freedom around the world paints a grim picture, as the Reporters Without Borders 2015 Press Freedom Index reports that two thirds of the 180 countries surveyed registered a decline. RSF reported declines in every region of the world, but the European Union a... |
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Keeping Score on Censorship: #JeSuisCharlie in L...
Guest post by Ariana Szepesi-Colmenares#JeSuisCharlie In January 2015, the targeted assassination of French cartoonists working for the satirical journal Charlie Hebdo in Paris moved and alarmed the international community. Voices have been silenced. Censorship 1 – Pencils 0. #YoSoyRayma In Se... |
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National Press Club Examines the Crackdown on Pr...
Given the political tumult in Turkey and the dramatic crackdown on independent media, which reached new heights in December, the National Press Club organized a panel session to discuss this and other challenges for the sector. The Panelists included: Tolga Tanis, Washington correspondent for Hurri... |
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The Self-Defeating Censorship of Xi Jinping
When Xi Jinping emerged as the likely successor to the Chairmanship of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 2008, there was hope among Western leaders that he would usher in a more open and politically pragmatic era for China. After all, Xi’s generation is largely removed from the revolutionary st... |
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A New World Order: Journalists versus ‘Democra...
Journalists are no longer special. That is Joel Simon’s sad but all-too-true assessment of why journalists are becoming an endangered species in many parts of the world. By CPJ’s count 60 journalists around the world were killed in 2014. “We live in an information age, and yet the people who b... |