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The Struggle for Independent Media and Freedom of Expressi...

Featuring: Nada Alwadi Bahrain Press Association Delphine Hagland Reporters Without Borders Adel Iskandar Georgetown University Moderated by: David E. Lowe National Endowment for Democracy Tuesday, June 11, 2013 10:00-11:30 a.m. Since the March 2011 Arab Spring revolutions, protes...

10 Years After Saddam: The State of Media in Iraq

Hosted by the Center for International Media Assistance and the Middle East and North Africa Program at the National Endowment for Democracy Featuring: Abir Awad BBC Media Action Tim Eaton BBC Media Action Theo Dolan United States Institute of Peace Shameem Rassam Alhurra-Iraq Moderated ...

An Explosion of News: The State of Media in Afghanistan

  The National Endowment for Democracy's Center for International Media Assistance and the Middle East and North Africa Program, and BBC Media Action present a panel discussion on An Explosion of News: The State of Media in Afghanistan   Since the fall of the Taliban ...

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Captured News Media: The Case of Turkey

Why are so many countries failing to create independent media that contribute to democracy and economic progress?  That is a big and complex question, but we at the Center for International Media Assistance suggest that one piece of the answer may be found in a concept known as media capture. Me...

Supporting Internet Freedom: The Case of Iran

CIMA is pleased to release Supporting Internet Freedom: The Case of Iran. During his run for the presidency of Iran, Hassan Rouhani made a bold promise. If he won, he would push for greater Internet freedom in a country where citizens risk imprisonment and torture for what they post online. Do...

You Say You Want a Revolution … Then What? The Challenge...

CIMA announces the release of a special report, You Say You Want a Revolution … Then What?, a first-person account by veteran journalist and media trainer Carolyn Robinson of her experiences training broadcast journalists in Libya after the death of leader Moammar Qaddafi. Robinson outlines some o...

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My journey from surveillance culture to circumvention cult...

Watchdogs Under Watch is a series of personal stories from journalists, bloggers, and activists around the world, as they encounter and combat surveillance and cyber security issues. This series and corresponding report, written for the Center for International Media Assistance, is in partnership wi...

Assessing the Media Development Challenge in the Middle Ea...

As over 40 media experts settled into the sunny conference room in Beirut, casual exchanges hinted at the breadth of challenges they had assembled to discuss. Some were absent, waylaid at border crossings; some would arrive late bearing news from election observation efforts in Tunisia. The room was...

When Media Capture Backfires: Local Elections and Digital ...

Duygu Güvenç and Jérémie Langlois Turkey captivated the world’s attention recently as President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s seemingly unstoppable accumulation of power ground to a halt in a series of humiliating defeats in local elections. To the surprise of many, digital news media emerged as ...