Type: Blog Post
By Anya Schiffrin Panic about the business model for journalism has surfaced again in the United States with the recent layoffs at Buzzfeed, Mic and, Vice. But digital-first outlets in the Global South have known for years that survival is extremely difficult especially for global muckrakers who wan...

Type: Event
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Type: Blog Post
By Noah Arjomand In August 2021, the Taliban upended two decades of international media development efforts in Afghanistan. Both the press and the entertainment industry had been relative success stories amid an otherwise bleak landscape of a corrupt and ineffective donor-dependent state and persist...

Type: Blog Post
By Ariane Gottlieb 2024 was a turbulent year for independent journalism. Media outlets continued to fight for financial sustainability and editorial autonomy amid deepening autocratization and a deteriorating landscape for digital freedoms. CIMA worked to identify potential responses to these challe...

Type: Blog Post
Editor’s Note: On Tuesday November 15, Professor Waisbord will be discussing the insights from his book on Latin America at the National Endowment for Democracy with anyone interested in pushing through media reforms in other parts of the world. If you will be in Washington, DC, and would like to ...

Type: Publication
The Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) are pleased to release, Official Development Assistance for Media: Figures and Findings, by Eduardo González Cauhapé-Cazaux, a development expert recently with the Organizat...

Type: Blog Post
Guest post by Ariana Szepesi-Colmenares Homicide rates among the highest in the world; increasing citizens’ fear of crime; urban violence at its peak; pervasive levels of organized crime in all its forms.  Citizens, governments, academics, the international community of donors­–everybody talk...

Type: Publication
CIMA is pleased to release a special report, Making Media Development More Effective, by Tara Susman-Peña, a media development and communications consultant. She was the director of research for Internews’s Media Map Project, which informed this paper. A wealth of research demonstrates that a hea...

Type: Blog Post
Gauging Media’s Role in Ukraine’s Transition With the crisis in Ukraine still at full boil, it may seem an odd time to start thinking about problems in its media sector. But a closer look at this crisis puts media front and center. And when it comes to reflecting about what the internati...

Type: Blog Post
Nataliya Gumenyuk, award-winning journalist and founder of the Public Interest Journalism Lab (PIJL) in Ukraine, says media support in the country needs to place less emphasis on commercial sustainability. CIMA spoke to Nataliya the day after she received the Democracy Award in recognition of PIJLâ€...