Blog Posts By

Don Podesta

27 Jun

Latin American Media: Point-Counterpoint

For Omar Rincón, director of the Journalism Institute of the University of the Andes in Colombia, there are essentially th...

03 Jun

Understanding Data: Can News Media Rise to the Challenge?

“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” –Attributed by Mark Twain to Benjamin Disrael...

16 May

Crowdsourcing Journalism Ethics: Thoughts on ONA’s Project

As far as we at CIMA can tell, the Online News Association’s Build Your Own Ethics Code Project, launched this month, is ...

22 Apr

The Correlation Between Press Freedom and Democracy: A Report

Democracy and media freedom are joined at the hip, right? Everybody knows you can’t have one without the other. But has a...

09 Apr

Update: OSF Wraps Digital Media Mapping Project

As we noted in this space on March 28, CIMA was pleased to participate in the Open Society Foundation’s Mapping Digital M...

26 Mar

Soft Censorship: Report from Mexico

CIMA Releases Next Report in Series Partnership with WAN-IFRA When international media watchers think about Mexico’s pres...

12 Feb

2014 Press Freedom Index Shows A Field Under Fire

Reporters Without Borders released its 2014 World Press Freedom Index this week, and as is often the case with the release ...

29 Jan

Soft Censorship: Reports from Serbia and Hungary

CIMA Releases Two Reports in a Series on Censorship with WAN-IFRA Some problems facing independent media never seem to go a...