On May 18, 2007, CIMA organized a working group that explored the legal enabling environment for independent media.
May 18th, 2007
Social media platforms are having profound impacts on the practice of journalism, which now involves a complex interplay of technologies, journalistic routines, and media economies. Platforms like Twitter are particularly important for news outlets in developing countries and emerging democracies....
The majority of people now live under illiberal regimes or some form of autocracy as a consequence of democratic declines occurring globally since 2010. Understanding the driving forces behind this historic setback to democratic progress will be essential for turning the tide. An analysis of media i...
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 ...
Para la versión en inglés, consulte aquí. Las advertencias llegaron a través de intermediarios: amigos y conocidos. A Jennifer Ávila y su equipo de Contracorriente se les dijo que sus reportajes sobre los arreglos fuera del país de los políticos y las élites hondureñas, según lo revel...
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 ...
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 mess...
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