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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...

Gulf Journalism in Exile: An Independent Press Stands Alon...

To say that Mohammed Alfazari is an unsung hero would be misleading; a reviled hero might be a more apt description. Through his online magazine Muwatin, he is trying to create a voice for critical journalism in his home country, Oman. For his efforts, Alfazari has been arrested and harassed by t...

Erdoğan’s clutch on free media tightens with proposed i...

Update: Late on Wednesday, March 21, the Turkish Parliament approved the bill to give the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) authority to regulate online broadcasting. A daunting blow to one of the country’s few remaining spaces for free expression, the regulation will require online out...