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Beyond the Great Firewall

Tuesday, March 7 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. EST (Lunch served 12:00-12:15 p.m.) National Endowment for Democracy 1025 F Street NW, Suite 800 Washington, DC 20004 Speakers: Shanthi Kalathil, Director, International Forum for Democratic Studies, National Endowment for Democracy Rebecca MacKinn...

Two Faces of Chinese Media: International Expansion, Inte...

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 Co...

Challenges for Independent News Media in Pakistan

Watch the full event below:   For the past two years, Pakistan has been ranked by international media monitors as the most dangerous place on earth for journalists. Media workers have been kidnapped, tortured, and beaten to death for delving into the nation’s potent military appar...

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Beyond the Great Firewall: How China Became a Global Infor...

For their unprecedented scale and effectiveness, China’s efforts at censorship have been dubbed the “Great Firewall.” China, however, now has grander ambitions. Without much fanfare, the Chinese government has turned its focus outward, seeking to take its influence over the information environ...

Advancing Independent journalism While Building a Modern N...

Malaysiakini, an online news platform operating in a country of continuous and pervasive media controls, has taken advantage of a precarious space allowing comparatively free journalism on the Internet. In Malaysia, it has successfully increased demand for reliable and independent news, along with s...

The Long Shadow of Chinese Censorship: How the Communist P...

The Long Shadow of Chinese Censorship: How the Communist Party’s Media Restrictions Affect News Outlets Around the World provides a survey of this phenomenon and its recent evolution as it pertains to the news media sector, though similar dynamics also affect the film, literature, and performing...

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Decline in attacks masks a deeper challenge for free media...

In Pakistan, press freedom has ticked up amid a decline in attacks on journalists over the past year, but recent reports suggest the promising numbers mask a deeper challenge of self-censorship. One recent study by Media Matters for Democracy found that roughly 88 percent of Pakistani journalists ad...

Holding the Line: An Interview with Tanya Hamada on the St...

The last two years have been a tumultuous period for Filipino democracy. Since the People Power Revolution in 1986, the Philippines became something of a beacon for democratic development in a region beset by authoritarian rule. But in the face of President Duterte’s violent so-called “drug war...

China’s Outward Propaganda Strategy Undermines Independe...

At a press briefing during China’s National People’s Congress convened in March, a local Chinese journalist’s dramatic eye-roll in response to her fellow reporter’s softball question went viral after it was captured on China’s state-run CCTV broadcast. The momentary glimpse of a candid rea...