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Post-2015 and Media Development: An Online Discu...
CIMA held an online event on May 21, 2014 featuring Article 19 on the role of media in strengthening accountability. The goal was to bring a new audience to the discussion of the media sector’s role in development, and how media would fit into the post-2015 agenda. Below is a collection of res... |
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Ukrainian Journalist Sergii Leshchenko Named ...
Guest post by Marlena Papavaritis of the National Endowment for Democracy, on why investigative journalism matters to the future of Ukraine Long before the Euromaidan protests erupted over Ukrainian citizens’ frustrations with corrupt and unaccountable political leaders, ties between politicians a... |
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World Press Freedom Day
Declining Media Freedom and the post-2015 Agenda Freedom House released their annual Freedom of the Press survey today stating that “global press freedom fell to its lowest level in over a decade in 2013” citing four major reasons for the decline: attacking the messenger, targeting foreign medi... |
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The Correlation Between Press Freedom and Democr...
Democracy and media freedom are joined at the hip, right? Everybody knows you can’t have one without the other. But has anyone set out to prove it? As Karin Deutsch Karlekar of Freedom House and Lee Becker of the University of Georgia write in CIMA’s latest research report, By the Numbers: Traci... |
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Event: Communications Law in Ecuador
Communications Law in Ecuador: When Censoring a Cartoon Becomes a Presidential Priority Since President Rafael Correa won his reelection, he has used a series of laws and decrees to constrain criticism and dissent. The most visible victims of these new laws are journalists. In June 2013, the Nationa... |
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2014 Press Freedom Index Shows A Field Under Fir...
Reporters Without Borders released its 2014 World Press Freedom Index this week, and as is often the case with the release of such indexes, it reopened the conversation about their validity, methodology, and cultural bias. This year the index, which ranks 180 countries according to six criteria, fin... |
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Q&A: Exiled Journalist and CIMA Author Davi...
David Satter, a former Financial Times journalist and author, achieved another distinction a few weeks ago. He was living in Moscow and working for Radio Liberty when he suddenly found himself under intense scrutiny: His visa was revoked by Russian authorities, and he was banned from the country. As... |
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What Do We Do About the Flat Line?
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... |
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Event: Cuban Media and the Defense of Press Free...
Fundamental freedoms of expression and information are eroding or under attack in Latin America. For decades, watchdog organizations like Freedom House and the Committee to Protect Journalists have consistently identified Cuba as one of the most repressive governments in the world and the most res... |