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The cost of crime and violence to freedom of the...
Guest post by Ariana Szepesi-Colmenares Homicide rates among the highest in the world; increasing citizens’ fear of crime; urban violence at its peak; pervasive levels of organized crime in all its forms. Citizens, governments, academics, the international community of donors–everybody talk... |
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Enough with Whispering about Media Freedom
Simegnish “Lily” Mengesha is a Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy. The views expressed here are her own.For any ordinary person, engaging in discussion with the world’s most powerful leader feels close to impossible. But I experienced the impossible when I ... |
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Standards of Professionalism: Mali’s press...
Tidiani Togola is a Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy. The views expressed here are his own. Most of the press professionals in Mali learn on the job. They have not benefited from any structured or adequate training. This has an impact both on the quality of t... |
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IREX Releases 2015 Media Sustainability Index fo...
This week, IREX released the 14th edition of its Media Sustainability Index (MSI) for Europe and Eurasia. The 2015 MSI paints a worrisome picture of the state of media systems in the region, but despite headline-grabbing setbacks in countries like Azerbaijan, Russia, and Hungary, there is still reas... |
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Five Takeaways From World Press Freedom Day 2015
If anyone needed to be convinced about the importance of press freedom, the events surrounding World Press Freedom Day on May 3 provided ample evidence. Just days before the meeting, Freedom House reported that its annual global press freedom index had suffered the sharpest decline in a decade. To t... |
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The Hardships of Soft Censorship
I’ve been writing about soft, or indirect, censorship ever since I left newspapering and joined CIMA nearly seven years ago. It pains me to say this, but the problem is only getting worse. As we at CIMA and our partners at WAN-IFRA have described it in previous reports: “Soft censorship is used ... |
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Reflections on the World Press Freedom Day 2015 ...
Last week’s WPFD conference posed a new narrative about press freedom in Africa. Although the difficulties are formidable, the determination of African journalists to do their job, to write and talk about what they wish, to exercise their human right to freedom of expression, cannot be denied. ... |
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Meanwhile, in Latin America…
It’s a sign of how far press freedom in Latin America has sunk that a leading expert on press freedom in the region can point to Cuba as a potential bright spot amid a sea of negative developments in the region. At a briefing on the state of freedom of expression in Latin America on […] |
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Freedom of the Press 2015: New Report
Press freedom has declined to its lowest point in more than ten years—an unfortunately common figure we’ve seen in Freedom House’s analysis, as the global Internet freedom scores released late last year revealed a similar downward trend. Perhaps most disturbing is the rate of decline in press... |
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Standardizing Censorship: The World’s 10 M...
The Committee to Protect Journalists analyzes the global trends in press freedom each year, chronicling both individual stories and broader institutional frameworks that prohibit the free flow of information from journalists to citizens. This year, CPJ’s analysis includes trends in censorship, hi... |