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		<title>New CIMA Report Series &#8211; Media Visionaries: Conversations With Key Players</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:12:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Center for International Media Assistance is pleased to add to its collection of research and working group reports a series of new publications under the title Media Visionaries: Conversations With Key Players. This will be an occasional series of feature articles profiling people who are making a difference in the field of international media [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The State of Freedom of Expression in the Americas</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mexican Media Under Attack: Lessons Learned from Colombia</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:22:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, March 9, the Center for International Media Assistance hosted a workshop on Mexican Media Under Attack: Lessons Learned from Colombia. Over 40 people attended the event.
In the face of violent murders of reporters and bombings of newspaper headquarters, a number of journalists in Colombia emerged as aggressive investigators of drug corruption in their country [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Broadcasting in UN Blue: The Unexamined Past and Uncertain Future of Peacekeeping Radio</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
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CIMA is pleased to release a new report, Broadcasting in UN Blue: The Unexamined Past and Uncertain Future of Peacekeeping Radio by Bill Orme, who served for the past seven years at the United Nations Development Program as a senior advisor on media development and strategic communications.  Orme is a former executive director of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Administrative Assistant for the Center for International Media Assistance</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a NED initiative that focuses on strengthening the support for free and independent media worldwide. Among other activities, CIMA provides information, builds networks, conducts research, and hosts discussions to highlight the indispensable role independent media play in developing sustainable democracies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Broadcasting in UN Blue: UN Radio&#8217;s Unexamined Past and Uncertain Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CIMA_Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 civil war to democracy may not have occurred. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Media, New Threats: Authoritarian Regimes Crack Down on Digital Activists</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:48:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EUObserver: East European criminals and politicians taking &#8216;libel tourism&#8217; trips to UK</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:03:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following article, which references CIMA’s report Libel Tourism: Silencing the Press Through Transnational Legal Threats, was originally published in the EUObserver. To view the article in its original context, click here.
January 12, 2010 
East European criminals and politicians taking &#8216;libel tourism&#8217; trips to UK
Leigh Phillips
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS &#8211; Organised criminals, businessmen and politicians, particularly from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Libel Tourism: Silencing the Press Through Transnational Legal Threats</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:50:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CIMA is pleased to release a new report, Libel Tourism: Silencing the Press through Transnational Legal Threats, which describes the legal risks that independent media worldwide face from libel and defamation suits.  This report by Drew Sullivan, a journalist, editor, and media development specialist, explains how lawsuits can force media organizations to censor themselves or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Libel Tourism: Silencing the Press Through Transnational Legal Threats</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:36:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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