Type: Blog Post
By Lourdes Walusala A couple of years ago, I lost my first child due to a pregnancy-related complication. This experience ignited my passion for advocating for maternal health, and so I started producing health programs on the radio. I also threw myself into blogging to reach wider audiences with in...

Type: Blog Post
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...

Type: Event
Years ago, the notion of a business model for community media would have brought responses ranging from dismay to ridicu

Type: Blog Post
When dozens of journalists, media development experts, and human rights advocates gathered at Central European University’s Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS) earlier this month to discuss media capture, it became readily apparent that there was no one definition for the topic at hand. Stil...

Type: Blog Post
Watchdogs Under Watch is a series of personal stories from journalists, bloggers, and activists around the world, as they encounter and combat surveillance and cyber security issues. This series and corresponding report, written for the Center for International Media Assistance, is in partnership wi...

Type: Event
Tuesday, March 7 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. EST (Lunch served 12:00-12:15 p.m.) National Endowment for Democracy 1025 F Street NW, Suite 800 Washington, DC 20004 Speakers: Shanthi Kalathil, Director, International Forum for Democratic Studies, National Endowment for Democracy Rebecca MacKinnon, Dir...

Type: Event
Thursday, February 18 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. EST (Lunch will be provided) *Live-stream coverage of this event will be available on this page The World Bank J Building 701 18th St NW, #075 Washington, DC 20006 NOTE: Registration will close at 5:00 pm EST on Tuesday, February 16th Panelists Include:...

Type: Donor Profile
The Ford Foundation was founded in 1936 with an initial grant from Edsel Ford, Henry Ford’s son. He wanted the foundation’s financial resources to be used “for scientific, educational and charitable purposes, all for the public welfare.” Built on fortunes from the Ford Motor Company, the fou...

Type: Blog Post
As a close follower of international media issues and of Latin America, I expected to hear a good deal about the problems media are facing in some countries of the region at the conference on Latin America that the Development Bank of Latin America, the Organization of American States, and the Inter...

Type: Blog Post
When Xi Jinping emerged as the likely successor to the Chairmanship of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 2008, there was hope among Western leaders that he would usher in a more open and politically pragmatic era for China. After all, Xi’s generation is largely removed from the revolutionary st...