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Protected: Confronting the Crisis in Independent Media: St...

The world has reached a tipping point in the state of vibrant news media. Press freedom has fallen to its lowest point in over a decade even as the media system as a whole is weakened by declines in revenue, audience trust, and the independence it relies upon. What's more, the crisis in news media i...

Reading the Charts: What Data Can Tell Us About Defending ...

Thursday, December 13 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. EST (Lunch served 12:00-12:15) National Endowment for Democracy 1025 F Street NW, Suite 800 Washington, DC 20004 Speakers: Nina Jankowicz, Wilson Center Global Fellow, Kennan Institute George Sarpong, Reagan-Fascell Fellow, National Endowment f...

Reclaiming the Internet for Democracy

Thursday, July 19 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. EDT Lunch will be served at 12:00pm With remarks from Representative David Cicilline (D-RI) National Endowment for Democracy 1025 F Street NW, Suite 800 Washington, DC 20004 Speakers: Iness Ben Guirat (Tunisia) Eduardo Carrillo (Paraguay) Juliet ...

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“Free Internet” and the Costs to Media Pluralism: The ...

In many countries, mobile operators have teamed up with social media platforms to offer free access to specific websites or internet services—including news websites. The most well-known of these offerings, Facebook’s Free Basics, has been explicitly pitched as a way to give citizens in developi...

Defending Independent Media: A Comprehensive Analysis of A...

When donors provide assistance to the media sector, they frequently back projects that aim to strengthen the media’s contribution to good governance in some way or another. This kind of funding is consistent with recent declarations made by the international community on the importance of protecti...

A New Wave of Censorship: Distributed Attacks on Expressio...

In both authoritarian and democratic contexts, new forms of censorship online are carried out through distributed attacks on freedom of expression that are insidiously difficult to detect, and often just as effective, if not more, than the kinds of brute force techniques by state agents that came be...

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How Romania’s independent media woke up its readers

As January came to a close, Romania’s government met late at night on the last day of the month to approve an emergency ordinance that decriminalized cases of official misconduct, or simply put: corruption. In the weeks leading up to this, a few members of the Romanian independent media heard whis...

A Road-map for Meaningful Media Reform in Ethiopia

By Asmamaw Gizaw The rapid political opening in Ethiopia over the past year has seen an uptick in journalistic freedom and a sincere effort on the part of the government to foster a robust, independent, and diverse media sphere. To continue this progress, reforms efforts must work to undo the legac...

Fighting for Survival: New Report on Media Startups in the...

By Anya Schiffrin Panic about the business model for journalism has surfaced again in the United States with the recent layoffs at Buzzfeed, Mic and, Vice. But digital-first outlets in the Global South have known for years that survival is extremely difficult especially for global muckrakers who wa...