Type: Blog Post
Including media in fragile states’ development Despite a snowy week in Washington, CIMA held a discussion cosponsored with BBC Media Action about challenges and opportunities that media in fragile states present to policymakers around the world.  The conversation focused on the successes in c...

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
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
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: Publication
A media-literate public is essential to building and sustaining a democracy of active citizens.  Effective free and independent media depend not only on skilled journalists but also on the knowledge of their readers. Media literacy training is a tool that the development sector can use to educate c...

Type: Publication
CIMA is pleased to release a new report, Covering Elections: The Challenges of Training the Watchdogs, by Rosemary Armao, a veteran journalist and journalism educator. Election training for journalists has been something of a sideline in most media development programs. Programs aimed at improving e...