The best method of resistance is saying the truth in
the face of a dictator.                          – Arabic Proverb

Research Reports

Most of CIMA's reports are research reports. When we notice a topic relevant to the field of media assistance that needs further exploration, CIMA commissions an expert on that topic to research and write the report.

CIMA also publishes Event and Working Group Reports, which summarize the discussion of some of the events the Center holds.

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Continental Shift

Continental Shift: New Trends in Private U.S. Funding for Media Development

CIMA is pleased to release a new report, Continental Shift: New Trends in Private U.S. Funding for Media Development, by Anne Nelson, an international media consultant. This work is an update of the October 2009 CIMA report, Experimentation and Evolution in Private U.S. Funding of Media Development by the same author. This report describes and analyzes the evolving landscape of private donor support for media development.

Media Codes of Ethics

Media Codes of Ethics: The Difficulty of Defining Standards

Codes of Ethics incorporate best practices that may go beyond the laws of libel, defamation, and privacy. In the not-so-free world, these codes are not always the products of a self-regulating free press. They may represent a cultural and political compromise with a society or government that holds a more restrictive view of what journalists should and should not report. Media Codes of Ethics: The Difficulty of Defining Standards examines the different types of media codes of ethics and offers recommendations for making them more robust and useful in efforts to raise standards of journalism.

News on the Go

News on the Go: How Mobile Devices Are Changing the World's Information Ecosystem

Mobile devices now reach the farthest corners of the world. By the end of 2011, about 5 billion mobile phones will be in service in a world with 7 billion people. The implications–for politics, for education, for economies, for civil society, and for news and information–are profound. News on the Go: How Mobile Devices Are Changing the World's Information Ecosystem examines how a global information society might look with mobile media devices at its hub.