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Erdoğan’s clutch on free media tightens with ...
Update: Late on Wednesday, March 21, the Turkish Parliament approved the bill to give the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) authority to regulate online broadcasting. A daunting blow to one of the country’s few remaining spaces for free expression, the regulation will require online out... |
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Fish, Water, and Global Media: Why Students Need...
“There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods and them and says, “Good morning boys, how’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit and then eventually one looks over at the other and goes, “What the [&hell... |
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Lack of Press Independence in Iraqi Kurdistan Un...
By Nawaf Haskan Throughout Iraqi Kurdistan, journalists currently face violence for reporting on sensitive issues, such as endemic corruption, leaving many reporters with a difficult choice to either flee the country or seek patronage and protection from specific political parties. This dynamic forc... |
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“A Sickness Beyond Borders:” Underst...
When dozens of journalists, media development experts, and human rights advocates gathered at Central European University’s Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS) earlier this month to discuss media capture, it became readily apparent that there was no one definition for the topic at hand. Stil... |
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The Growing Challenge of Media Capture: Journali...
Beginning last week journalists, media workers, and researchers from around the world gathered in Budapest at the Central European University (CEU) to discuss a large and growing challenge facing each of their unique media environments: media capture. CEU’s Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS... |
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Chaining the watchdog: Soft censorship and media...
“New construction seems devoted mostly to four-lane highways – the better to transport government troops into the state and minerals out of it.” – Amitava Kumar The use of economic development as a pretext to displace local communities in resource-rich areas is a familiar story. How ... |
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Lugar, Schiff remember Mark Helmke as CIMA annou...
On Thursday, December 1, Indiana University’s School of Global and International Studies (SGIS) joined CIMA and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) in announcing a new partnership, the Mark Helmke Postdoctoral Scholarship on Global Media, Development, and Democracy. The announcement coincid... |
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Southeast Asia: An action plan to improve the me...
By: Jan Lublinski Editor’s Note: This post was first published on Deutsche Welle Akademie’s website and is republished here with permission. The media in Southeast Asia face a host of issues, foremost of which are government censorship, the concentration of ownership, the lack of political suppo... |
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Captured News Media: The View from Turkey
How does an institution like media, entrusted to safeguard the rights and interest of ordinary citizens, betray that obligation? Capture has become a growing concern in the media field globally–yet another example of the many challenges facing independent news media. In a captured media, the gover... |