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CIMA will be hosting an event next week discussing media capture in Turkey. The Turkish media has been facing persistent troubles limiting their abilities to provide credible and reputable news to their audience. Media in Turkey has suffered crackdowns and instances where journalists have had their freedom of expression stripped. Check out what the major media freedom indices have to say. (All scores are adjusted to a 0-100 scale).

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Captured News Media: The Case of Turkey

Media capture  –the systemic governance problem where political leaders and media owners work together in a symbiotic but mutually corrupting relationship – is a growing concern for media development around the world. It is becoming the dominant model of organization in a growing number of medi...

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 ...

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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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Brokering Local-International Knowledge: An interview with...

Noah Arjomand is a sociologist and is currently the Mark Helmke Postdoctoral Scholar on Global Media, Development, and Democracy which is sponsored by Indiana University’s Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies and the Center for International Media Assistance. The following ...

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...

The Other Threat Against Journalists in Turkey: Criminaliz...

The dismal state of press freedom in Turkey is now incontrovertible. Report after report has documented the growing numbers of imprisoned journalists, shuttered newspapers, and banned news sites (here, here and here). Researchers have demonstrated the impacts of political-economic alliances between ...