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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. ... |
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Ukraine’s Media: In Some Ways, Better Than You...
By Gillian McCormack Regional Director for Europe and Eurasia Programs for Internews For many of us working in the field of media and access to information, Ukraine feels like the center of things right now. It is both the target of a misinformation campaign the size and scope of which the world has... |
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Divides and Nastiness Aside: The (few) advantage...
I lived in Beirut for over two years starting in 2012, where I worked on grassroots empowerment initiatives with a Lebanese and Syrian NGO. Media is a central part of life in Beirut, and Lebanese have a complicated obsession with their media. TV and radio relentlessly blast the insults being hurled ... |
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Russia’s Internet Crackdown
By Guest Blogger As part of Russia’s authoritarian turn following Vladimir Putin’s return to the presidency in May 2012, the Kremlin has launched an unprecedented crackdown on the Russian Internet. A barrage of restrictive new laws, the blocking of websites critical of the government, the prose... |
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A Bold Investment Fund to Create Independent Med...
By Aleksander Dardeli Governments have directly and indirectly resumed predominance of the media markets in many former communist-bloc nations in Central and Eastern Europe. Responsible editorial standards that were introduced after the fall of communism have eroded or are altogether out of fashion.... |
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Colombia’s Peace Process: How can the Press Co...
By Melissa Nolan The clock continues to tick for the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) to sign a peace accord. There is no doubt that this negotiation process is historic. In the time it took the negotiating parties to decide on one agenda item in 1998, the t... |
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Blogging Against Autocratic Rule in Nepal: The R...
By Tilak Pathak On the morning of February 1, 2005, just before heading to my job at I watched the king of Nepal announce on national television that he had ousted the country’s democratic government. Shortly thereafter, I attempted to call my editor only to find that all phone lines had been cut... |