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By Michael Oghia Negotiating individual privacy with the public’s “right to know” is a balancing act for which there are no easy solutions, yet has substantial implications for media development. Last month, CIMA published Information Not Found: The “Right to be Forgotten” as a Threat to M...

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By Andreas Reventlow Online surveillance, phishing, and content blocking is familiar territory for most journalists who uncover corruption, misuse of power, or who report on human rights abuses. Although their rights to freedom of expression and privacy online are challenged on a near-daily basis, h...

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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...

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By Corinne Cath This post originally appeared on March 14th on the website of Article 19. Watch out for the upcoming report and RSVP here for our discussion on the topic in DC on March 23rd. A breaking headline in a tweet, a presidential inauguration streamed live on social media, and the latest dev...

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By Teemu Henriksson Editor’s Note: This post was first published on WAN-IFRA’s website and is republished here with permission.  WAN-IFRA’s Public Affairs and Media Policy department held its annual Global Media Policy Forum held at the World News Media Congress on Monday 13 Ju...

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This year’s Highway Africa Conference, which gathers journalists from across the continent, focused on the growing migration of Africans to cities and what that means for African journalism. Under the theme “Journalism and the City,” the conference at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Af...

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Earlier this month, I attended the 2015 Annenberg-Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute – a two-week seminar that brings together young scholars and regulators from around the world to discuss important trends in technology and its influence on information policy. As a representative of CIMA, my co...

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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...

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Guest post by Silvia Chocarro Marcesse There is no question media pluralism and diversity are crucial for strong democracies. The pressing question is how to guarantee it. According to a group of Latin American experts that met in Washington, DC, the media environment in the region needs some regula...

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By Gideon Sarpong Social media advocates have historically lauded its ability to facilitate democratic progress by connecting people over space and time, enabling faster and wider mobilization than ever before. However, in recent years, this optimism has faded, and platforms have also become effecti...