Type: Blog Post
Earlier this month, I attended the 2015 Annenberg-Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute – a two-week seminar that brings together young scholars and regulators from around the world to discuss important trends in technology and its influence on information policy. As a representative of CIMA, my co...

Type: Event
Over 140 people attended CIMA’s discussion of the impact of new media during the Iranian elections. New techn

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
As 2015 comes to an end, it’s a good time to take stock of which topics attracted the most interest on CIMA’s blog over the past year. To do this, I performed a quick analysis of the number of blog post visitors in order to compile a list of the five most-read blog posts of […]

Type: Blog Post
By  Raul Peñaranda U. In February 2016, the independent Bolivian news agency ANF, where I work as managing editor, revealed that vice president Alvaro García Linera had not graduated from Mexico’s prestigious UNAM university with a degree in mathematics, as he had been claiming for decades. AN...

Type: Blog Post
By Cristi Hegranes and Laxmi Parthasarathy In late January, the government of Mongolia imposed a nationwide lockdown to halt the spread of coronavirus. Although it was a farsighted move by public officials, its sudden execution took us by surprise. Two reporters from Global Press, the international ...

Type: Blog Post
Guest post by Silvia Chocarro Marcesse There is no question media pluralism and diversity are crucial for strong democracies. The pressing question is how to guarantee it. According to a group of Latin American experts that met in Washington, DC, the media environment in the region needs some regula...

Type: Blog Post
This year’s Highway Africa Conference, which gathers journalists from across the continent, focused on the growing migration of Africans to cities and what that means for African journalism. Under the theme “Journalism and the City,” the conference at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Af...

Type: Blog Post
The Russian government has depended heavily on the state media to mobilize necessary domestic support in the wake of its seizure of the Crimean peninsula earlier this year. With the number of independent media sources in Russia shrinking and the state-owned broadcasting networks expanding their reac...

Type: Blog Post
Suddenly cyber everything is all the rage in Washington. This month there have been several panel discussions and book launches around town having to do with government cyber surveillance, cybersecurity, and their effect on freedom of expression and journalism. And more are scheduled. The Washington...