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24 Mar

Digital Rights and Democracy: Online Censorship in Venezuela

By David Aragort For the Spanish version, see here. In recent years, Venezuela has experienced many crises during which ac...

16 Mar

The Facebook Papers: How Authoritarian Governments Are Pressuring Platforms to Stifle Free Speech

By Gideon Sarpong Last year’s avalanche of media stories about Meta (formerly Facebook), capped by revelations from the w...

02 Mar

Health Journalism and Global Media Development Assistance: Examples from Sub-Saharan Africa

By Stefan Wollnik More than half of official international assistance for health goes to sub-Saharan African countries wher...

10 Feb

Survival Strategies: Global Initiatives to Safeguard Media in the Post-COVID World

By Theodora Dame Adjin-Tettey You can’t have democracy without accountability, and you can’t have accountability withou...

27 Jan

The Weaponization of National Security Against Nigeria’s Free Press

By Senami Kojah Nigeria’s ever-increasing security concerns are being weaponized by the government to crack down on news ...

16 Dec

CIMA Q&A with Yohannes Eneyew Ayalew: The Dangers of Media “Ethnification” in Ethiopia

By CIMA Staff In a year of civil war, thousands of Ethiopians have been killed, millions have been forced from their homes,...

14 Oct

Turning the Tide on Autocrats Starts with Supporting a Free Press

By Damon Wilson and Nicholas Benequista At a moment of existential threat to independent media in many countries, the award...

13 Oct

‘No Safe Haven’: Commercial Spyware’s Global Reach

By Samuel Woodhams New revelations about the global proliferation of commercial spyware and how it has been used to target ...

15 Sep

The New Censorship: Why Protecting Journalists Online from Harassment is Critical to Press Freedom

By Gideon Sarpong The rise of social media platforms provides many opportunities to the more than half a billion  internet...