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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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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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CIMA Report: Malaysiakini A Unique Case of Media...
In today’s digitized world, news organizations must be online to survive. And yet, online-only publications struggle to monetize their product, and sustain their content production.CIMA’s latest report, Advancing Independent Journalism While Building a Modern News Business: The Case of Malaysiak... |
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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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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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Freedom on the Net Declines for Fourth Straight ...
Global internet freedom is in its fourth straight year of decline, according to the annual Freedom on the Net index released by Freedom House. The 2014 index, released early yesterday morning, looks at three levels of internet use: obstacles to access, limits on content, and violations of user right... |
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It’s not what the Hong Kong protesters are say...
Guest post by John Sinden. The original interview was featured on American University’s SIS International Relations Online. Many parallels can be drawn between the 2014 Hong Kong student protests and the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Both protests demand higher political participatio... |
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ONA 2014: The blended worlds of digital journali...
The Online News Association’s annual conference on emerging trends in digital journalism kicks off in Chicago today, with nearly 100 sessions varying from lightning talks to hands-on workshops for the next three days. In its 15 years, the ONA conference has seen dramatic technological shifts... |
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Tweetchat: Open Journalism with the OSCE
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