Type: Blog Post
For years, Russia has been refining its digital authoritarian playbook, taking advantage of technological advancements to silence the regime’s opponents at home and abroad. The information war that accompanied its invasion of Ukraine has shined a stark light on the corrosive effects of these strat...

Type: Event
Tuesday, February 28 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. EST (Lunch provided) National Endowment for Democracy 1025 F Street NW, Suite 800 Washington, DC 20004 Panelists: Tim Isgitt, Managing Director, Humanity United Tom Rosenstiel, Executive Director, American Press Institute Anya Schiffrin, Director of T...

Type: Blog Post
For the Spanish version, see here. The warnings came through intermediaries: friends and acquaintances. Jennifer Ávila and her team at Contracorriente were told that their reporting on the offshore dealings of Honduran politicians and elites, as revealed by the Pandora Papers, would get them in tro...

Type: Blog Post
By Damon Wilson and Nicholas Benequista At a moment of existential threat to independent media in many countries, the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to two of the world’s bravest and most committed journalists—Maria Ressa of Rappler, and Dmitry Muratov of Novaya Gazeta—sends an important messa...

Type: Event
On July 28, CIMA hosted a roundtable discussion to examine lessons learned by the media development community in Europe and Eurasia after major political, social, and economic transformation. The event emphasized progress and decline in the media landscape in Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Serbia, and Ukraine...

Type: Blog Post
Guest post by Ann Hendrix-Jenkins. This post originally appeared on LenCD.We work in an era when technical specialties dig ever deeper into their own rabbit holes of complexity and nuance, while simultaneously calls resound for a next generation of global health and development based on integration,...

Type: Event
Over 80 people attended CIMA’s discussion on the monitoring and evaluation of media assistance projects. In recent

Type: Event
In honor of World Press Freedom Day 2009, CIMA held a discussion on Capitol Hill about the safety of journalis

Type: Event
This event launched CIMA's inaugural report Empowering Independent Media: U.S. Efforts to Foster Free and Independe

Type: Blog Post
Thousands took to the streets of Budapest in the close of 2019, protesting Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s most recent step in his march against free expression in Hungary. But the restriction was a decade in the making. Since Orbán’s government came to power in 2010, the state of free speech in...