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Introducing Press Start: Crowdsourcing for Media...
By Jeremy Druker Do you live in a country where the media are not beholden to political or business interests? Where journalists are free to write they want, without fear of fines, beatings, imprisonment, or worse? If so, consider yourself one of a privileged few – a mere 14 percent of the world&#... |
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Publishing for Peanuts: Innovation and the Journ...
By JJ Robinson, journalist/editor and lead author Media innovation and startups are subjects talked about all over the world but little studied outside the US and Europe. For our report ‘Publishing for Peanuts: Innovation and the Journalism Startup’, we sought out new and independent media outl... |
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Media Development Needs a Reboot: A Report from ...
By Justin Kosslyn Official donors from around the world spend upwards of $650 million a year on media development. They are spending their money with the expectation that it will meet a technical challenge: training writers to craft good stories, providing equipment, coaching managers on business sk... |
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“Political Will” as a Scarce Resource: Media...
Media act as conduits for politically consequential ideas; as such, their political significance is highly relevant. Advances in mass media—first in print, then over broadcast, and most recently on the Internet—have only magnified their reach, influence, and importance. It is therefore no wonder... |
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Updates to Soft Censorship Reports on Hungary, S...
CIMA and the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) have been cooperating in a campaign to raise awareness around the world of the insidious practice known as “soft” (or indirect) censorship of news media. Soft censorship is used to promote positive coverage of of... |
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Stifling the Public Sphere
Building political support for media is an essential piece of the development puzzle because, as a new report by the International Forum for Democratic Studies puts it, “Independent media are essential for determining the success or failure of government programs and assessing actual conditions ... |
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State of Broadband 2015: Internet, Mobile Growth...
Fifty-seven percent of the world’s population lacks access to the Internet. For those who work in the Global South, this number might not seem all that surprising, but a new report released by UNESCO and the International Telecommunications Union has some insights for the future. The two agencies ... |
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To give democracy a fighting chance, get serious...
Today is International Democracy Day: Thoughts on media’s role in democratic institutions We’ve known for a long time that independent news media is a crucial ingredient in the mix of policies, institutions and political behaviors that make democracy work. And we’ve seen concrete ... |
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Politics and Rethinking Media Development
Media development has not produced the results that many had hoped for in the early promising years of the post-Soviet period. Too little funding, a lack of coordination among media development actors, and a dearth of data continue to undermine the effectiveness of media development efforts worldw... |
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Attacks on the Press: Are International Protecti...
This post originally appeared on the Advanced Training Program on Humanitarian Action blog.In last month’s ATHA Podcast on the Protection of Humanitarian Aid Workers under International Law, our listener Thomas from Palestine asked: “How do you suggest to strengthen protection for humanitarian w... |