December 15th, 2015
Soft censorship Tweetchat round up – #softcensorCHAT
When donors provide assistance to the media sector, they frequently back projects that aim to strengthen the media’s contribution to good governance in some way or another. This kind of funding is consistent with recent declarations made by the international community on the importance of protecti...
In both authoritarian and democratic contexts, new forms of censorship online are carried out through distributed attacks on freedom of expression that are insidiously difficult to detect, and often just as effective, if not more, than the kinds of brute force techniques by state agents that came be...
En América Latina, el retorno a formas democráticas de gobierno en la década de 1980 produjo avances significativos en la libertad de prensa. De hecho, los indicadores de Freedom House sobre la libertad de prensa en América Latina alcanzaron su punto más alto en 1990, cuando la censura gubernam...
By Henok Fente Just a few months ago, Ethiopia was one of the countries with the highest number of imprisoned and exiled journalists. Now, a new prime minister is promising that his government will respect freedom of speech as part of a swift move toward democracy. “Building democratic instit...
When a small group of political or economic elites controls the mass media, they effectively monopolize the channels through which information circulates in society. In this way they can play an outsized role in shaping what gets covered by journalists and how it is covered. In the worst cases, they...
US government assistance to media freedom and freedom of information around the world rose sharply in 2016, with the largest share of the increase benefiting Europe, Eurasia, the Near East, and South and Central Asia. According to newly released figures, in 2016 the US Department of State and USA...
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