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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...

Local News in Times of Crisis

Wednesday, June 24 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. EDT Speakers: Teresa Gorman, Senior Program Associate for Local News, Democracy Fund Laxmi Parthasarathy, Chief Operating Officer, Global Press James Smart, Journalist and Founder, K-Youth Media Moderator: Samlanchith Chanthavong, Associate Direc...

Surveillance for Sale: How China and Russia Export Repres...

Tuesday, September 17 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. EDT (Light refreshments served at 10:00am) National Endowment for Democracy 1025 F Street NW, Suite 800 Washington, DC 20004 Speakers: Natalia Arno, President, Free Russia Foundation Ron Deibert, Director, The Citizen Lab David Kaye, U.N. Spec...

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Local Radio Stations in Africa: Sustainability or Pragmati...

Despite the explosion of digital news outlets globally, millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa continue to rely on radio as the most accessible independent news source. However, radio stations across continent are facing unprecedented threats to their sustainability due to weak media markets, limi...

The Rise of Internet Throttling: A Hidden Threat to Media ...

An increasing number of governments around the world are forcing internet service providers to slow their services during critical sociopolitical junctures—a practice known as throttling—infringing on citizens’ right to information and freedom of expression. Despite its deleterious impact on m...

Building Regional Strategies for Media Development in the ...

In response to the complex crisis now facing media in the Middle East and North Africa, defenders of free expression and independent media in the region must increasingly look to cross-border strategies to strengthen independent media in the region. That was the conclusion of 40 prominent media expe...

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

Ukraine’s media sector seems be the subject of dueling narratives at the moment. The launch of a public broadcasting service under trusted leadership gives the impression of momentum in the sector. On the other hand, the country has also made little progress at breaking the financial power that po...

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...