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The political tumult in Ukraine over the past decade has had significant implications for its media environment and press freedom levels. Check out what the major indices have to say. (Scores are adjusted to a 0-100 scale)

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Ukraine: Can Trustworthy Media Win?

Friday, April 28 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. EDT (Lunch served 12:00-12:15) National Endowment for Democracy 1025 F Street NW, Suite 800 Washington, DC 20004 Speakers: Tetyana Lebedyeva, Chair of the Supervisory Board, National Public Broadcasting Company Katerina Myasnykova, Executive Direc...

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...

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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...

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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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“Free, but not independent”: Voice of America’s Myro...

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Soft Power on the Air: The News with a Russian Twist

When the Malaysia Airlines plane crashed in eastern Ukraine last week, the Russian state media began to spread obvious disinformation and anti-Ukraine propaganda. With fabricated witnesses and unlikely hypotheses, consumers of Russian media received a disturbingly false picture of this international...

The Domestic Scene of Russian Media: TV is King

The Russian government has depended heavily on the state media to mobilize necessary domestic support in the wake of its seizure of the Crimean peninsula earlier this year. With the number of independent media sources in Russia shrinking and the state-owned broadcasting networks expanding their reac...