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Southeast Asia: An action plan to improve the me...
By: Jan Lublinski Editor’s Note: This post was first published on Deutsche Welle Akademie’s website and is republished here with permission. The media in Southeast Asia face a host of issues, foremost of which are government censorship, the concentration of ownership, the lack of political suppo... |
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Latin American Network Adds Pressure for Media R...
For much of the past two years, CIMA, in collaboration with Deutsche Welle Akademie, has been fostering a global series of regional consultations that bring together civil society and media watchdog NGOs, broadcast regulators, academics, media industry representatives, government officials, and oth... |
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A Regional Consultation in Southeast Asia: Looki...
During this week’s Global Forum on Media Development (GFMD) World Forum in Jakarta, Indonesia, CIMA and Deutsche Welle Akademie will be hosting a regional consultation on media in southeast Asia. Two dozen journalists, activists, media managers, and public sector officials representing nine southe... |
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Consulting with Lawmakers on the Media Environme...
Effective media development work requires the engagement of sectors beyond the media themselves–that is, governments, academia, and civil society. Based on this notion, CIMA and Deutsche Welle Akademie (DWA), the media development arm of the German international broadcaster, have launched a series... |
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Foreign Media and Misinformation – How Telesur...
By Patricio Provitina The digital revolution has changed the way audiences around the globe access and consume information, while also shaking up traditional media business models. Citizens with Internet connections have access to high quality information and a diverse market-place of ideas, knowled... |
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Distorting the News in Africa: How Dictators Hav...
By Elie Smith In response to the influence of Western media in their countries, African dictators have ramped up nationalistic and pan-African propaganda through government-sponsored media. These media outlets spend their time either painting an overly rosy picture of the situation in Africa, or att... |
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Cybercrimes legislation in Pakistan threatens fr...
By Raza Rumi Over the past decade the Pakistani government has struggled with how to regulate the Internet and how to tackle cybercrime. In 2009, the Pakistan Electronic Crimes Ordinance (PECO) lapsed. It had only been in effect for two years, but an attempt to resurrect it was prevented by IT indus... |
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Analyzing the Panama Papers in Baghdad: An Inter...
The unprecedented collaboration of over 400 investigative journalists in more than 80 countries to analyze the 11.5 million files leaked from the database of the fourth-largest offshore law firm in the world, Mossack Fonseca, has been one of the biggest global media stories of the year. Some have ar... |
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Media in Latin America: A Glass Half Full or Hal...
CIMA’s blog has often addressed the sorry state of media in Latin America, and my own posts on the subject have mostly emphasized the sorry aspect. A few scattered recent developments taken together, however, offer a glimmer of hope that maybe things will begin to turn around for media in the regi... |
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Developing local media systems for Syrian refuge...
According to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), as of May 5, 2016, there are 4,834,414 registered Syrian refugees. For comparison, this is roughly the size of Ireland’s total population and includes 2.1 million people currently in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, and Lebanon and 2.7 million people in Turkey. ... |