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Addressing Local News Poverty: A Bottom-Up Appro...
By Laxmi Parthasarathy Nearly two decades ago as a pre-teen, I used to deliver several hundred copies of the Scarborough Mirror, a free community paper in the northeast corner of Toronto twice a week. At the time, this was the go-to source of information for community news, and it filled an infor... |
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Entrepreneurial journalists in Latin America are...
By Janine Warner Digital media startups in Latin America are becoming increasingly important and credible news sources, and they are transforming the complex media landscape. With the advent of free and easy-to-use technology, entirely new types of news and information sources are emerging, from gen... |
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With Mainstream Media Weakened in Bolivia, Socia...
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... |
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Is it time for an Algorithm Ombudsman?
In my recent post The New Gatekeepers I noted how algorithms are playing an increasingly important role in determining what information people are presented online. This is particularly true in an age where, according to a recent Pew Research Center report, 60 percent of Facebook and Twitter users s... |
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Year in Review: Top 5 CIMA Blog Posts of 2015
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 […] |
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Highway Africa 2015: Journalism and the City
In a few weeks, CIMA will attend Highway Africa 2015 at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. The annual conference serves to create a platform for sharing information and knowledge, serving as the center of Africa’s debates on journalism, media, and communication. This year’s theme... |