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Media in the Cross Hairs: Militants continue to ...
By Raza Rumi Despite the commitments of the Pakistan government to protect journalists, media freedoms remain endangered in the country. Pakistani journalists continue to struggle with the threats posed by violent extremists who consider media to be a legitimate target. In fact, extremists often tar... |
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Almost there: A common-sense indicator for the U...
By Bill Orme After months of debate, the United Nations appears ready to begin official monitoring of legal guarantees for public access to information in all 193 UN member states, greatly strengthening a potentially historic effort to transform this principle into a new universal norm. This is a ... |
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In Burma, a Chance for New Momentum on Media Ref...
As Burma’s new National League of Democracy (NLD)-dominated parliament nears the selection of the country’s next president, media reform advocates will be looking for the NLD to continue reforms of the country’s media environment, but little is known about the incoming leadership’s polic... |
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Talking the Talk but Failing to Walk the Walk : ...
By Lamii Kpargoi On July 21, 2012, six months after receiving her second six-year mandate, President Ellen Sirleaf signed the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers’ (WAN-IFRA) Declaration of Table Mountain, which seeks to abolish insult laws and criminal defamation across Africa. The... |
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Correa’s Creative Use of Copyright Law to Stif...
By Vanessa Aliaga It is safe to say that Ecuadorean President, Rafael Correa, does not take criticism well. His frenzied Twitter rants garnered international attention last year when John Oliver, a British comedian and the host of HBO’s Last Week Tonight, mocked the president’s temper on air. Bu... |
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In the age when everything is going digital, is ...
That’s the question we will try to answer this week in a special trans-Atlantic dialogue featuring a new CIMA report with responses from the World Bank, Internews and BBC Media Action. I will be moderating the panel of experts who have been grappling for decades with the question of how to introdu... |
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The Growing Trend Toward Criminalizing Free Spee...
By Lamii Kpargoi Over the last two decades, many African countries have progressed from repressive governance, including suppressing dissenting opinion, to democracy, opening some space for freedom of expression. Thirteen countries, including Sierra Leone, Tunisia, Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia, Nigeri... |
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China’s Quest for International “Discourse I...
In December, South Africa played host to the China-Africa Media Summit in Cape Town, a lead-up event to the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation Summit (FOCACS). Representatives from 120 media organizations in 47 African countries and some Chinese media participated in the summit, whose theme was ̶... |
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Rebooting Media Development: Stop, Look, Listen
It seems that the media development community is always fighting an uphill battle. It is difficult to demonstrate concrete results to donors in media support work, and it is also difficult to move media assistance higher on the overall development agenda. These two things are mutually reinforcing. I... |
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Storify Event Round-up: The Deteriorating Media ...
[View the story “Event Round-up: The Deteriorating Media Environment in Central and Southeast Europe – Next Steps” on Storify] |