Blog Posts By

Valerie Sinden

09 Feb

New Media Merger Law in Ireland

A sustainable, independent media needs supporting institutions—among them, a wide variety of opinions and viewpoints avai...

22 Jan

Violence Against Saudi Arabian Blogger

**Update: King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia died on January 22. He will be succeeded by his brother, Crown Prince Salman.  Add...

15 Jan

Measuring the Audience

A Wrap-Up of CIMA’s Discussion As the coordinator of CIMA’s events, I spend a lot of time on a lot of different top...

22 Dec

Turmoil in Turkey: Raids on Media Outlets

The media in Turkey has had a difficult year. Following last December’s corruption scandal human rights and press freedo...

17 Oct

Event wrap-up: Data Journalism

Using data journalism to bridge the gap from media to overall development One of CIMA’s first blog posts highlighted the ...

25 Sep

ONA 2014: The Legal Panel

The Online News Association’s annual conference has grown in substance and topic each year, but one steadfast subject rem...

21 Jul

Event: Documenting Democracy and Extremism in Pakistan through Political Cartoons

Political cartoons grace the pages of newspapers throughout the world often as fillers, deemed unimportant, when in reality...

25 Jun

Participate in our Do-Over Webinar!

Join CIMA for an interactive online discussion on June 26 at 10:00 a.m. Back in May, CIMA hosted a webinar that didn’t wo...

14 May

Media’s Role in Strengthening Accountability

Join CIMA for an interactive online discussion on May 21 at 9:00 a.m. In recent months, CIMA has written extensively on rai...