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Donor Support to Media Development: Defining the...
CIMA Launches Media Development Support Donor SurveyProject by Tara Susman-Peña and Tom Lansner CIMA is launching a Media Development Support Donor Survey to identify donor priorities and trends and to help paint a broad picture of the support landscape. CIMA will publish a series of summaries of d... |
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The Statistical Commission Speaks: First Indicat...
Next week, from March 23rd through the 27th, the UN General Assembly will for the first time directly discuss the specifics of the 17 proposed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their 169 associated ‘targets’ – and the multiple yet-to-be-assigned factual ‘indicators’ by which the... |
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What is media development? Lessons learned from ...
This week, CIMA hosted a panel of experts from around the media development community to engage in a debate about where the field is headed. At CIMA, we’ve organized our thinking on media development into four interconnected issue areas that reflect macro concepts in the field: effectiveness, sust... |
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A New Website to Reflect Action-Focused Strategy...
It’s easy to be pessimistic about the state of media in the world today. Despite the global spread of technology and connectivity, press freedom has been declining for almost a decade and the producers of high quality news and information are struggling to find new business models to sustain their... |
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CIMA Report: Malaysiakini A Unique Case of Media...
In today’s digitized world, news organizations must be online to survive. And yet, online-only publications struggle to monetize their product, and sustain their content production.CIMA’s latest report, Advancing Independent Journalism While Building a Modern News Business: The Case of Malaysiak... |
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Media Pluralism Key For a Healthy Media Environm...
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... |
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US Net Neutrality Debate Sees Major Milestone
Net neutrality = the principle that Internet service providers should enable access to all content and applications regardless of the source and without favoring or blocking particular products or websites.It’s a basic definition, yet one people often find hard to grasp. And it’s not something y... |
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Book Review: Media and Development by Martin Sco...
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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The Great Debate: Freedom of Information and Med...
UN Representative, Global Forum for Media Development This Monday, the UN General Assembly began its final phase of negotiations over the UN’s next set of global development goals, which will succeed the expiring Millennium Development Goals and guide international development priorities and aid f... |
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Measuring the Audience
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... |