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Media’s Role in Strengthening Accountabili...
Join CIMA for an interactive online discussion on May 21 at 9:00 a.m. In recent months, CIMA has written extensively on raising the profile of the media sector . CIMA senior director Mark Nelson attended a high level meeting in Mexico regarding this topic, and we are continuing to seek out ways to... |
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Access to information post-2015: What role will ...
Day Two at UNESCO’s World Press Freedom Day Conference Access to information will play a vital role in the twenty-first century. The massive technological shift in the last twenty years has turned on its head all concepts of development, and how to use data and access to technology as tools for ci... |
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What you need to know: Media Freedom for a Bette...
Day One of UNESCO’s World Press Freedom Day Conference If you work in the media field, World Press Freedom Day is nothing new. It takes place each year. Conferences and events are held around the world (see, for example, our event from last week in Washington, DC), and UNESCO hosts the flagship co... |
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World Press Freedom Day
Declining Media Freedom and the post-2015 Agenda Freedom House released their annual Freedom of the Press survey today stating that “global press freedom fell to its lowest level in over a decade in 2013” citing four major reasons for the decline: attacking the messenger, targeting foreign medi... |
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The Correlation Between Press Freedom and Democr...
Democracy and media freedom are joined at the hip, right? Everybody knows you can’t have one without the other. But has anyone set out to prove it? As Karin Deutsch Karlekar of Freedom House and Lee Becker of the University of Georgia write in CIMA’s latest research report, By the Numbers: Traci... |
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Tough Questions Surface at Global Meeting
An update from the First High-Level Meeting of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation Erik Solheim is the kind of development professional who would be most inclined to argue for the important role of media in development. The chair of the Development Assistance Committee of th... |
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Improving development assistance: Can it be done...
The short answer: No! As ministers and delegates from all over the world gather on April 15th and 16th in Mexico City to discuss progress in international development, they will be hawking an ambitious agenda. They want wider participation by citizens, who often know better what will work and what... |
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Mapping Digital Media: OSF Project Comes to a Cl...
The Open Society Foundation’s Program on Independent Journalism released its latest and final report mapping digital media in countries around the world. A total of 56 reports were released in the last three years, the majority of which were mapped by CIMA on our website, and all of which detaile... |
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Also Under Siege in Ukraine: The Media
Gauging Media’s Role in Ukraine’s Transition With the crisis in Ukraine still at full boil, it may seem an odd time to start thinking about problems in its media sector. But a closer look at this crisis puts media front and center. And when it comes to reflecting about what the internati... |
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What Do We Do About the Flat Line?
It’s time to put media back at the core of development. Almost any way you look at or measure them, conditions for the news media in developing countries are not improving. Despite exploding growth in mobile phones and Internet connectivity across the world, the creation of high quality, ind... |