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The Gatekeeper to End All Gatekeepers? Social Me...
By Noah Arjomand Journalists are some of the world’s most prolific social media users. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and WhatsApp have become essential tools for independent journalists both to collect information for their reporting as well as important channels for news dissemination. Yet truth-se... |
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Saving Journalism: New Report Examines Global In...
By Anya Schiffrin Dozens of plans to help save journalism have emerged since the COVID-19 pandemic decimated media outlets around the world, the arrival of the pandemic adding urgency to an already perilous situation. The economic effects have helped to create what some are calling a “media extinc... |
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Independent Media and the Pandemic: Lessons from...
This post is the first of a two-part series recapping CIMA-moderated panels held as part of Carleton University’s “Journalism in the Time of Crisis” conference. As the pandemic continues to upend the daily lives of people around the world, journalists face new constraints in their efforts ... |
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Women Producing the News: Workplace inequality a...
This is the first in a series of posts on women and media development. When you imagine a journalist or news anchor what comes to mind? Likely you imagine a well-dressed man in a suit behind a large desk with sweeping views of city skyscrapers discussing economic principles, not a woman in rural S... |
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Global media organizations can build resilience ...
By Cristi Hegranes and Laxmi Parthasarathy In late January, the government of Mongolia imposed a nationwide lockdown to halt the spread of coronavirus. Although it was a farsighted move by public officials, its sudden execution took us by surprise. Two reporters from Global Press, the international ... |
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Assessing the Media Development Challenge in the...
As over 40 media experts settled into the sunny conference room in Beirut, casual exchanges hinted at the breadth of challenges they had assembled to discuss. Some were absent, waylaid at border crossings; some would arrive late bearing news from election observation efforts in Tunisia. The room was... |
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Information Laundering and Globalized Media R...
By Noah Arjomand In May 2018, A Washington Post fact-check of the US government’s reasons for withdrawing from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran included a discussion of the claim that Iranian military spending had increased because of the agreement. The fact-checkers wrote: Iran’... |
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Fighting for Survival: New Report on Media Start...
By Anya Schiffrin Panic about the business model for journalism has surfaced again in the United States with the recent layoffs at Buzzfeed, Mic and, Vice. But digital-first outlets in the Global South have known for years that survival is extremely difficult especially for global muckrakers who wan... |
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Brokering Local-International Knowledge: An inte...
Noah Arjomand is a sociologist and is currently the Mark Helmke Postdoctoral Scholar on Global Media, Development, and Democracy which is sponsored by Indiana University’s Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies and the Center for International Media Assistance. The following ... |
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Who watches the watchdog? Why media ownership co...
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... |