Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.   – Thomas Jefferson

Is Media Freedom at the Heart of Media Development?

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

What’s media assistance about anyway? Actually, there’s not really a straightforward answer to this question. I realized that when I listened to Daniel Kaufmann of the Brookings Institute earlier this week at an event hosted by the Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) and Internews. Kaufmann’s answer was that media assistance is about media freedom. A free media is a necessary, although not a sufficient condition for successful media development.

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