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View Dave Kaplan’s PowerPoint Presentation >> Featuring: Sheila Coronel @SheilaCoronel Columbia University David E. Kaplan @gijn Global Investigative Journalism Network View PowerPoint Presentation >> Drew Sullivan @DrewOCCRP Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project Wednesd...

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Over 50 people attended CIMA/NED’s event on the Legal Enabling Environment for Independent Media in Iraq. As a 2011 CIMA report, Iraq’s News Media After Saddam: Liberation, Repression, and Future Prospects, after the removal of Saddam Hussein in 2003, Iraq’s tightly controlled state-ru...

Type: Event
The Center for International Media Assistance at the National Endowment for Democracy invites you to a panel discussion on Measuring the Audience: Why It Matters to Independent News Media Featuring: Michelle Foster CIMA Report Author Leon Morse IREX @irexmedia Evan Tachovsky Media Development Inve...

Type: Blog Post
On November 23, 2009, a convoy of 58 men and women, 32 of them journalists, were slaughtered by gunmen outside of Ampatuan, a town in the southern Philippine province of Maguindanao.  The victims were headed to the provincial office of the Commission on Elections to watch the wife of Esmael Manguda...

Type: Blog Post
This post is the first of a two-part series recapping CIMA-moderated panels held as part of Carleton University’s “Journalism in the Time of Crisis” conference. As the pandemic continues to upend the daily lives of people around the world, journalists face new constraints in their efforts ...

Type: Blog Post
A Wrap-Up of CIMA’s Discussion As the coordinator of CIMA’s events, I spend a lot of time on a lot of different topics—from hammering out the concept of the event to finding panelists to wrapping my mind around topics that I am sometimes, frankly, not the most familiar with. This event was...

Type: Blog Post
Media development has not produced the results that many had hoped for in the early promising years of the post-Soviet period.  Too little funding, a lack of coordination among media development actors, and a dearth of data continue to undermine the effectiveness of media development efforts worldw...

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...

Type: Publication
Satirical comedy is uniquely effective in its ability to bolster media development objectives. Through its ability to attract audiences and provide news commentary in an entertaining way, it can be used as an important tool to promote freedom of expression, foster accountability and transparency, co...