Panel Discussion: Thursday, March 18, 12:00-2:00 p.m. - Violence constitutes the majority of threats to the media in Latin America, according to a newly released study, The State of Freedom of Expression in the Americas, by the Center for Studies on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information based in Argentina. Judicial penal actions are still [...]

Panel Discussion: Thursday, March 11, 2010, 12-2:00 p.m. –  From Cambodia to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, local United Nations peacekeeping radio programs have helped mitigate violent conflict and make peaceful elections possible. In a dozen countries the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations became the provider of trusted national news services, without which transition from [...]

On Friday, January 22, CIMA held a panel dicussion on Capitol Hill to discuss new threats to media in the digital age.  Authoritarian regimes are finding new and subtle ways to counter opposition voices and influence the public online. While traditional censorship of the Internet—through blocking or hacking into opposition Web sites and intimidating citizen [...]

In publishing online, media organizations face the risk of libel and defamation suits in many countries around the world. Vested political, business, and criminal interests, especially in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, are increasingly using the courts to redress alleged harms, punish journalists and scare off publishers.  Libel Tourism: Silencing the Press through [...]

Over 60 people attended CIMA’s discussion on digital media in conflict-prone societies. Digital media in conflict-prone societies have the potential to foster dialogue and peace or to fuel hate speech and violence. The rapid spread of digital-based communications and information networks is likely to have an effect on 21st-century wars, which increasingly center on internal conflict, disputed [...]

Over 45 people attended CIMA’s discussion on freedom of expression in the Americas. Radio stations, television channels, and newspapers in several Latin American countries have been facing increasing opposition from their leaders in recent months.  In Venezuela, which has one of the most authoritarian governments in the region, legislation has been proposed to further restrict the country’s news [...]

Over 80 people attended CIMA’s discussion on the monitoring and evaluation of media assistance projects. In recent years, the process of monitoring and evaluation of assistance projects, or M&E, has received increased attention from both donors, who want to know if their money has been well spent, and implementers, who want to know their programs [...]

NED’s Center for International Media Assistance and the Europe and Eurasia Program, together with the Eurasia Foundation, hosted a discussion on the state of regional print media in Russia. Anna Koshman, the executive director of the Russian Alliance of Independent Regional Publishers and visiting inaugural Bill Maynes Fellow with the Eurasia Foundation, gave the main [...]