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The unchecked growth of the commercial spyware industry is providing repressive governments with new tools to surveil, harass, and attack independent journalists and their sources in a new battlefront against the free flow of information. The chilling effect of this is strongest in countries with a ...

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Seeing as the Internet is now, in many countries, the primary conduit for the circulation of independent journalism, how it is governed will impact both media development and press freedom. Will global Internet policies foster the free circulation of information? Will they be structured in ways that...

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When people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) took to Twitter in June to protest skyrocketing internet and mobile data prices, it was only the latest in a series of struggles between Congolese netizens and the government over internet policy. On May 17, netizens in the DRC were shocked t...

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In response to the complex crisis now facing media in the Middle East and North Africa, defenders of free expression and independent media in the region must increasingly look to cross-border strategies to strengthen independent media in the region. That was the conclusion of 40 prominent media expe...

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CIMA is pleased to release a new report, Matching the Market and the Model: The Business of Independent News Media, by Michelle J. Foster, a veteran international media management and marketing consultant. The report explains how lack of management skills and inexperience in developing effective bus...

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By Morgan Frost While the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is the fourth largest country in Africa in terms of population, it has one of the lowest levels of internet accessibility across the continent. Weak democratic governance and the prevalence of several armed groups has left the DRC to f...

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Electromagnetic spectrum—the frequencies on which all voice and data signals are transmitted—has been viewed for decades as a scarce resource and leased to the highest bidder like a piece of valuable real estate. This approach to regulating the use of spectrum, however, is no longer appropriat...

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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 Elie Smith The Internet has been turned off for more than 80 days in parts of the West African country of Cameroon. And while this has garnered international condemnation, what most onlookers have not yet fully grasped is how the shutdown is related to long-simmering regional tensions within the ...

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By Lena Nitsche This post originally appeared on Deutsche Welle Akademie’s #Mediadev blog. According the 2015 Global Internet Report, increased mobile phone penetration isn’t just allowing hundreds of millions of people around the world access to the internet for the first time – users...