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What is media development? Lessons learned from ...
This week, CIMA hosted a panel of experts from around the media development community to engage in a debate about where the field is headed. At CIMA, we’ve organized our thinking on media development into four interconnected issue areas that reflect macro concepts in the field: effectiveness, sust... |
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International Women’s Day 2015: A Need for Mor...
The International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) announced the opening of the Howard G. Buffett Fund for Women Journalists earlier this week, which will grant an annual total of $230,000 for projects that will “lead to the exposure of under-reported stories, strengthen story-telling skills,... |
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A New Website to Reflect Action-Focused Strategy...
It’s easy to be pessimistic about the state of media in the world today. Despite the global spread of technology and connectivity, press freedom has been declining for almost a decade and the producers of high quality news and information are struggling to find new business models to sustain their... |
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Assessment and Impact: From Media That Matters 2...
In October of last year, CIMA released the report Measuring the Audience: Why It Matters to Independent News Media and How It Can Contribute to Media Development. In the report, Michelle Foster explores how audience measurement can be a tool in gauging the media’s impact on people in developing ... |
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International Mother Language Day: How Digital T...
A previous blog post explored the importance of linguistically diverse and culturally relevant online material. February 21 is UNESCO’s International Mother Language Day and the theme of this year’s celebration is “Inclusion in and through education: Language counts.” With... |
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Reporters Without Borders Releases 2015 Press Fr...
The latest analysis of the state of press freedom around the world paints a grim picture, as the Reporters Without Borders 2015 Press Freedom Index reports that two thirds of the 180 countries surveyed registered a decline. RSF reported declines in every region of the world, but the European Union a... |
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All Cybersecurity, All the Time
Suddenly cyber everything is all the rage in Washington. This month there have been several panel discussions and book launches around town having to do with government cyber surveillance, cybersecurity, and their effect on freedom of expression and journalism. And more are scheduled. The Washington... |
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US Net Neutrality Debate Sees Major Milestone
Net neutrality = the principle that Internet service providers should enable access to all content and applications regardless of the source and without favoring or blocking particular products or websites.It’s a basic definition, yet one people often find hard to grasp. And it’s not something y... |
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Media That Matters 2015
This year, the Center for Media and Social Impact (CMSI) at American University will hold its eleventh annual Media That Matters Conference, a gathering of “established and aspiring filmmakers, nonprofit communication leaders, funders, and students who want to learn and share cutting-edge practic... |
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Book Review: Media and Development by Martin Sco...
Guest post by Ann Hendrix-Jenkins. This post originally appeared on LenCD.We work in an era when technical specialties dig ever deeper into their own rabbit holes of complexity and nuance, while simultaneously calls resound for a next generation of global health and development based on integration,... |