Type: Blog Post
  Media development can be tricky in a place like Somalia.  Arbitrary arrests of journalists, raids and closures of radio stations, and threats of violence against journalists, including from al-Shabaab militants, are commonplace. The lack of a legal environment in which a free press and free expr...

Type: Blog Post
CIMA hosted a talk-show style discussion this week on the precarious situation for media in the Balkans, featuring Milka Tadic Mijovic of the Weekly Monitor and Marija Sajkas of the Media Diversity Institute.  The panel, on April 2, opened with moderator Ivana Cvetkovic Bajrovic , NED’s senior pr...

Type: Publication
In today’s media world of almost limitless channels of information and avenues for citizens to express themselves online, the idea of publicly funded, independently operated radio and television might seem to belong in a bygone era. Yet international donors who support the development of free and...

Type: Blog Post
It’s easy to be pessimistic about the state of media in the world today. Despite the global spread of technology and connectivity, press freedom has been declining for almost a decade and the producers of high quality news and information are struggling to find new business models to sustain their...

Type: Event
Over 115 people attended CIMA’s celebration of its fifth anniversary, World Press Freedom Day, and the launch of the second edition of its report, Empowering Independent Media: U.S. Efforts to Foster a Free Press and an Open Internet Around the World. See Dave Kaplan’s PowerPoint present...

Type: Blog Post
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 a...

Type: Blog Post
 It’s time to put media back at the core of development. Almost any way you look at or measure them, conditions for the news media in developing countries are not improving. Despite exploding growth in mobile phones and Internet connectivity across the world, the creation of high quality, ind...

Type: Blog Post
By Lela Vujanić In 2014, a group of journalists made the bold move to leave the Slovakian newspaper SME after it was partially acquired by an investment group with links to the government of Slovakia. They didn’t know they would soon be running a European media powerhouse. The journalists lau...

Type: Event
Tuesday, June 19 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. EDT (Lunch served 12:00-12:15) National Endowment for Democracy 1025 F Street NW, Suite 800 Washington, DC 20004 Speakers: Samantha Custer, Director of Policy Analysis, AidData Brian Joseph, Vice President of Programs, National Endowment for Democracy Mary ...

Type: Event
Thursday, February 18 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. EST (Lunch will be provided) *Live-stream coverage of this event will be available on this page The World Bank J Building 701 18th St NW, #075 Washington, DC 20006 NOTE: Registration will close at 5:00 pm EST on Tuesday, February 16th Panelists Include:...