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Open Journalism and the Open Road Ahead
Guest post by Dunja Mijatovic, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media As the technological landscape evolves in an increasingly digitized world, so widens the wellspring of news and information: shaky cell phone footage, amateur photography, even hastily composed tweets and social media posts.... |
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The Free Press—Prosperity Link: Time to Reexa...
Guest post by Richard Winfield of the International Senior Lawyers Project One of the classic arguments for a free and independent press is the economic one: where the press is free and independent, robust economies are likely to flourish; where the press is government owned and unfree, economic ... |
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Report: Journalism Training in the Digital Era
Thoughts from leaders in media development CIMA’s latest report, Journalism Training in the Digital Era: Views from the Field, remarks upon the digital revolution for media development. Practitioners are hard pressed to find a request for proposal that doesn’t incorporate some new media ... |
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Africa Summit 2014: Recommendations for the Medi...
Yesterday, we offered a behind-the-scenes look at what representatives of the media sector in Africa saw as the greatest challenges facing the region’s media development. Today, that group met in Washington to make recommendations on how to combat these challenges. The panel’s spokespers... |
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Africa Summit 2014: Challenges to the Media Sect...
In the midst of the US-Africa Summit taking place for the government leaders in Washington, DC this week, civil society and media groups met at the National Endowment for Democracy to create a specific set of recommendations and goals for the region’s development. While broad facets of civil... |
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Uruguay’s Media Reform Success Story
On the eve of his appointment as the new Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Uruguayan lawyer, journalist and director of CAinfo, Edison Lanza, visited CIMA to discuss the success of Uruguay’s media reform efforts in a region plagued by li... |
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Myopia and Misallocation in Media Development
Guest post by Richard Winfield of the International Senior Lawyers Project Two years ago, my friends at CIMA revealed that of all federal foreign aid dollars, only 4/10s of one percent is aimed at assisting the development of free and independent media. The CIMA study reported that only $222 million... |
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Event: Documenting Democracy and Extremism in Pa...
Political cartoons grace the pages of newspapers throughout the world often as fillers, deemed unimportant, when in reality, these images have the power to say more than any text based article. Political cartoonists play an essential role in conveying the true environment of what is happening in a c... |
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Treading Softly: Soft Censorship in Russia
Only a few brave souls will continue to produce objective, high-quality news when they have many incentives not to do so. Independent news sources in Russia face increasingly higher risks of litigation, verbal attacks by government news sources, or shutdown. Journalists must practice self-censorship... |
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Blogging for a Future Democracy: The Story of An...
Guest post by Pham Doan Trang On a late spring day in Hanoi, officers from the Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security launched a sudden raid on the home and business of well-known blogger, Nguyen Huu Vinh, better known as Anh Ba Sam (Vietnamese for “Brother Gossiper”). Vinh and his assistant Ng... |