Type: Blog Post
False facts are a problem everywhere; In developing countries, they’re devastating Accusations of inaccuracies in the news media are nothing new. After all, American journalism went through its infamous “yellow” period at the end of the 19th century when invented stories helped drive the US to...

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“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” –Attributed by Mark Twain to Benjamin Disraeli I once heard a reporter just back from a foreign assignment grumble as she puzzled over exchange rates for her travel expense report: “I went into journalism because I was t...

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Day Two at UNESCO’s World Press Freedom Day Conference Access to information will play a vital role in the twenty-first century. The massive technological shift in the last twenty years has turned on its head all concepts of development, and how to use data and access to technology as tools for ci...

Type: Blog Post
 It’s time to put media back at the core of development. Almost any way you look at or measure them, conditions for the news media in developing countries are not improving. Despite exploding growth in mobile phones and Internet connectivity across the world, the creation of high quality, ind...

Type: Event
Please not that due to technical diffculties, portions of both Sarah Cook and Anne Nelson’s presentations are missing. Click here to hear a full audio recording. >> Featuring: Anne Nelson Columbia University CCTV’s International Expansion: China’s Grand Strategy for Media Sarah Cook ...

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Over the last 20 years, a global right-to-information movement has created a new norm for any government that claims to be democratic. This has included passage of more than 90 freedom of information laws throughout the world, many of which are recently enacted and exemplary on paper. However, due t...

Type: Event
Watch a video recording of the event below. Freedom House and Reporters Without Borders have consistently ranked Burma, Cuba, and North Korea among the most repressive environments for press freedom in the world. Governments in these states have held a monopoly on information, restricting or tightly...

Type: Event
Click here to read a full summary of the event >> The Center for International Media Assistance at the National Endowment for Democracy and the International Senior Lawyers Project present a panel discussion on Media Law Reform 2.0: Advancing Press Freedom and Independent Media Around the Wor...

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Over 115 people attended CIMA’s celebration of its fifth anniversary, World Press Freedom Day, and the launch of the second edition of its report, Empowering Independent Media: U.S. Efforts to Foster a Free Press and an Open Internet Around the World. See Dave Kaplan’s PowerPoint present...

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Authoritarian regimes are finding new and subtle ways to counter opposition voices and influence the public online. Whil