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Big Data, Not Big Brother: Digital Media Analytics in a Ne...

Thursday, June 6 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. EDT (Light refreshments served 3:00-3:15) National Endowment for Democracy 1025 F Street NW, Suite 800 Washington, DC 20004 Speakers: Ayden Férdeline, Tech Policy Fellow, Mozilla Foundation Nathalie Maréchal, Senior Research Analyst, Ranking Digital...

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...

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Confronting the Crisis in Independent Media: A Role for In...

The international community is waking up to its responsibility to protect and strengthen independent media around the world. This report puts forward recommendations for how that responsibility can be translated into action, acknowledging the complexity of the crisis facing independent media. Based ...

“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...

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With Mainstream Media Weakened in Bolivia, Social Networks...

By  Raul Peñaranda U. In February 2016, the independent Bolivian news agency ANF, where I work as managing editor, revealed that vice president Alvaro García Linera had not graduated from Mexico’s prestigious UNAM university with a degree in mathematics, as he had been claiming for decades. A...

India’s Other Media Boom

Digital news and social media hold increasing sway over public opinion, but as the world’s largest democracy goes to the polls, it may be time to ask: Just how important is digital media in India? Between April 11 and May 19, more than 900 million Indians will be eligible to vote in the nation...

A Critical Juncture in West Africa: Why Regional Processes...

In CIMA’s recent report, A Regional Approach to Media Development in West Africa, co-published with the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), authors Dr. Gilbert Tietaah and Sulemana Braimah note that West Africa is at a “critical juncture” in terms of media freedom, pluralism, and democrat...