Type: Blog Post
By Courtney C. Radsch This year, the theme of UNESCO’s annual World Press Freedom Day was “Shaping a Future of Rights: Freedom of expression as a driver for all other human rights.” Yet despite the celebratory events lauding the importance of independent public interest media and the role of a...

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For years, Russia has been refining its digital authoritarian playbook, taking advantage of technological advancements to silence the regime’s opponents at home and abroad. The information war that accompanied its invasion of Ukraine has shined a stark light on the corrosive effects of these strat...

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Tuesday, February 28 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. EST (Lunch provided) National Endowment for Democracy 1025 F Street NW, Suite 800 Washington, DC 20004 Panelists: Tim Isgitt, Managing Director, Humanity United Tom Rosenstiel, Executive Director, American Press Institute Anya Schiffrin, Director of T...

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For the Spanish version, see here. The warnings came through intermediaries: friends and acquaintances. Jennifer Ávila and her team at Contracorriente were told that their reporting on the offshore dealings of Honduran politicians and elites, as revealed by the Pandora Papers, would get them in tro...

Type: Event
On July 28, CIMA hosted a roundtable discussion to examine lessons learned by the media development community in Europe and Eurasia after major political, social, and economic transformation. The event emphasized progress and decline in the media landscape in Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Serbia, and Ukraine...

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By Damon Wilson and Nicholas Benequista At a moment of existential threat to independent media in many countries, the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to two of the world’s bravest and most committed journalists—Maria Ressa of Rappler, and Dmitry Muratov of Novaya Gazeta—sends an important messa...

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Guest post by Ann Hendrix-Jenkins. This post originally appeared on LenCD.We work in an era when technical specialties dig ever deeper into their own rabbit holes of complexity and nuance, while simultaneously calls resound for a next generation of global health and development based on integration,...

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Over 80 people attended CIMA’s discussion on the monitoring and evaluation of media assistance projects. In recent

Type: Event
In honor of World Press Freedom Day 2009, CIMA held a discussion on Capitol Hill about the safety of journalis

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This event launched CIMA's inaugural report Empowering Independent Media: U.S. Efforts to Foster Free and Independe