Across the world, journalists and traditional media organizations have come to realize that new media and technology have profound impact on their work. The explosion of access to technology and information has led to a rapidly evolving media environment, where everyone from professional journalists, to government officials, to ordinary citizens, can create their own approaches to how news and information is created and shared. This connectivity brings with it implications for security: How do media development practitioners keep up with governments who are clamping down and restricting the online space through surveillance, censorship, and Internet blackouts?

CIMA monitors innovation in media development through its reports, events, and mailings, such as Journalism Training in the Digital Era: Views From the Field; The New Gatekeepers: Controlling Information in the Internet Age; Bigger Cities, Smaller Screens: Urbanization, Mobile Phones, and Digital Media Trends in Africa; and The Video Revolution.