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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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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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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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CIMA Audience Feedback 2014: Going Forward
At CIMA, we aim to raise the visibility and improve the effectiveness of media development around the world. Over the next year, we’re looking to improve our own effectiveness in engaging our audience-delivering to you both the type and format of content you need. In order to do this, we need ... |
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Soft Censorship: Report from Mexico
CIMA Releases Next Report in Series Partnership with WAN-IFRA When international media watchers think about Mexico’s press, the first image that often comes to mind is the tragedy of journalists getting killed or censoring themselves in an effort to avoid that fate. But Mexico’s news media has a... |
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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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The Role of Political Cartoons in Ecuador
RSVP here for the March 18th event at Freedom House!Communications Law in Ecuador: When Censoring a Political Cartoon Becomes a Presidential Priority CIMA, NED, and Freedom House sponsored an event on March 5 to raise awareness of Ecuador’s most recent controversy involving Xavier Bonilla, a promi... |
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Independent media face stifling business climate...
Despite the oft-praised Cinderella story of Burmese democratization, a range of persistent challenges faces independent media in the country. Access to information and the role of parliament in Burma featured prominently in the presentations at an event hosted by Internews on February 26, but the ab... |
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2014 Press Freedom Index Shows A Field Under Fir...
Reporters Without Borders released its 2014 World Press Freedom Index this week, and as is often the case with the release of such indexes, it reopened the conversation about their validity, methodology, and cultural bias. This year the index, which ranks 180 countries according to six criteria, fin... |