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02 Nov

Media Freedom in the New Burma: Defamation, Self-Censorship, and Implications for Ethnic Minorities

By David Angeles With last November’s landslide election victory of Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League f...

24 Oct

The Press at the Forefront of Democracy in Liberia

By Dave Peterson The Press Union of Liberia (PUL) has fought for press freedom in Africa as long or longer than just about ...

17 Oct

Facebook’s Video Mismeasurement Has Real Implications for Media Development

By Dean Jackson Late last month, the Wall Street Journal reported that Facebook has “vastly overestimated” the time use...

13 Oct

Southeast Asia: An action plan to improve the media environment

By: Jan Lublinski Editor’s Note: This post was first published on Deutsche Welle Akademie’s website and is republished ...

12 Oct

State of Emergency in Ethiopia curtails Media Freedom and threatens Long-term Stability

By Simegnish Yekoye A year after the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), together with its allies,...

03 Oct

A Marriage of Convenience – Looking at the new Donor-Journalism Relationship

By Anya Schiffrin The influence that advertisers and owners have on the editorial line has been well documented, but what h...

12 Sep

Empowering Girls Online: ICTs and Young Women in Zimbabwe

By Nyaradzo Mashayamombe Internet connectivity in Sub-Saharan Africa has grown quickly over the past couple of years. In m...

23 Aug

Online Comments Sections: Finding the Balance to Foster Democratic Deliberation

Michael Gioia The comment sections of online newspapers have often become an object of derision, earning a reputation as a ...

18 Jul

The Data Explosion: Media, Big Data, and the Internet of Things

By Carlos Affonso Souza Director, Institute for Technology and Society (ITS), Rio de Janeiro Every day we generate more da...