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Fighting for Survival: New Report on Media Start...
By Anya Schiffrin Panic about the business model for journalism has surfaced again in the United States with the recent layoffs at Buzzfeed, Mic and, Vice. But digital-first outlets in the Global South have known for years that survival is extremely difficult especially for global muckrakers who wan... |
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Indonesian Cyber Media Association: Collective A...
Independent news producers in Indonesia say the dominant platforms for digital content distribution, namely Facebook and Google, are taking advantage of them and undermining their viability as media businesses. While this is an increasingly common complaint from news producers, especially in the Glo... |
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The Kenyan media business should panic. Kenyan j...
By James Smart When President Barack Obama famously visited the country of his father’s birth just months before leaving office, he congratulated the Kenyan press for its well-known “feisty journalism.” If his speechwriters had been more attuned to current events, they might have been more cir... |
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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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Parting Words from Haiti’s Not-So-Sweet Mickey...
By Janelle Nodhturft Williams Former Haitian President Michel Martelly left office on February 7, 2016, the 30th anniversary of the fall of the brutal Duvalier dictatorship. A failed election process leaves the former head of the Senate temporarily at the reigns. Thus, Haiti faces its second interi... |
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Soft censorship has a hard impact on free media
By Andrew Heslop, Director, Press Freedom, WAN-IFRA By using financial and administrative power to pressure media outlets, punish critical reporting, and reward favorable coverage, biased government interventions in media sectors not only distort the market but also make it difficult for media to ex... |
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Paper Shortage Undermines Print Media in Venezue...
The media environment in Venezuela remains repressive and closely tied to the Maduro government, making it nearly impossible to publish content that questions the government narrative. Today, the wide-read daily newspaper, El Nacional, remains one of the last independent and critical sources of info... |
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International Donor Relations and the Government...
By Lamii Kpargoi In September 2010, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf signed Liberia’s Freedom of Information (FOI) law. That singular act ushered in perhaps the most important piece of governance legislation ever passed in the country’s history. It was a momentous day for many Liberians, especial... |
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Toward Free and Independent Media in Latin Ameri...
CIMA is cosponsoring an international conference on the challenges to independent media in Latin America, to take place this week in Bogota, Colombia, under the auspices of the Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and UNESCO. Ot... |
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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... |