Center for International Media Assistance

Latin America & The Caribbean

Thirteen countries in this region are rated as having a free press by Freedom House. The rest are rated partly free (15 countries) or not free (5 countries: Cuba, Venezuela, Honduras, Ecuador, and Mexico). In the view of Reporters Without Borders, only Costa Rica and Jamaica deserve the highest rating among the countries of this region (“good situation”). Mexico, Colombia, and Venezuela are considered to be in difficult situations, and Cuba is in a very serious situation.

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Windows of Opportunity: Media Reform During Political Open...

Windows of Opportunity: Media Reform During Political Openings Wednesday, December 7, 2022 9:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. EST featuring Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Lisa Peterson, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, U.S. Department of State and a conversation with Antonina Cherev...

Should Big Tech Pay for the News?: Policy Interventions to...

Should Big Tech Pay for the News?: Policy Interventions to Rebalance the Relationship Tuesday, September 20, 2022 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. EDT Speakers: Dr. Courtney Radsch, researcher and CIMA report author of “Making Big Tech Pay for the News They Use” Prue Clarke, Executive Director of N...

Breaking the Silence: Countering the Effect of SLAPPs on I...

Breaking the Silence: Countering the Effect of SLAPPs on Independent Media Wednesday, March 23, 2022 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. EDT Speakers: Drew Sullivan, co-founder and editor of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) Susan Coughtrie, Project Director at the Foreign Pol...

Media Reform amid Political Upheaval: Lessons from Burma, ...

Reforming the media sector is central to ensuring the success of a democratization effort. Yet, the path to progress is not straightforward—reform efforts can easily stall, and media advocates face strong headwinds as they contend with entrenched political and business interests. By examining past...

Long-Term Investments Pay Dividends in Ukraine

This report, part of the Center for International Media Assistance’s “Media Reform amid Political Upheaval” series, highlights the ways that media support to Ukraine has been exemplary. Donor support for a broad-based, bottom-up media sector reform effort was essential to the progress made in ...

Media Reform in Tunisia: A Volatile Process

By focusing on the period of media reform ushered in during Tunisia’s transition to democracy, this brief, part of CIMA's "Media Reform amid Political Upheaval" series, examines how civil society advocates, government reformers, journalists, and media experts worked together to build broad-based d...

Covering the Authoritarian Playbook: How Coda Story Gets t...

For years, Russia has been refining its digital authoritarian playbook, taking advantage of technological advancements to silence the regime’s opponents at home and abroad. The information war that accompanied its invasion of Ukraine has shined a stark light on the corrosive effects of these strat...

Rebalancing the Relationship Between Big Tech and News Med...

As the global journalism industry struggles to adapt to shrinking revenue brought on by the failure of traditional business models, Big Tech companies continue to dominate the digital advertising market. This uneven playing field has led policymakers in the US, EU, and Australia to attempt to rebala...

La Verdad del Autoritarismo Digital en Venezuela

By David Aragort Un “Gran Hermano” en Venezuela Un informe publicado recientemente por una de las principales empresas de telecomunicaciones en Venezuela confirmó lo que muchos habían temido durante mucho tiempo: la vigilancia estatal en el país ha alcanzado una escala masiva. El informe...