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Post-2015 and Media Development: An Online Discu...
CIMA held an online event on May 21, 2014 featuring Article 19 on the role of media in strengthening accountability. The goal was to bring a new audience to the discussion of the media sector’s role in development, and how media would fit into the post-2015 agenda. Below is a collection of res... |
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Crowdsourcing Journalism Ethics: Thoughts on ONA...
As far as we at CIMA can tell, the Online News Association’s Build Your Own Ethics Code Project, launched this month, is a first. It is a crowd-sourced “mechanism to help news organizations, small startups and individual journalists and bloggers create their own codes of ethics,” writes projec... |
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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... |