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Upcoming event: Strengthening Freedom of Express...
CIMA’s latest event, Strengthening Freedom of Expression in a Multicultural World, will be held on June 9 from 12:00-2:00. To give this conversation greater global scope, we are partnering with the Media Diversity Institute, an NGO that works works internationally to encourage and facilitate... |
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Enough with Whispering about Media Freedom
Simegnish “Lily” Mengesha is a Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy. The views expressed here are her own.For any ordinary person, engaging in discussion with the world’s most powerful leader feels close to impossible. But I experienced the impossible when I ... |
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Standards of Professionalism: Mali’s press...
Tidiani Togola is a Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy. The views expressed here are his own. Most of the press professionals in Mali learn on the job. They have not benefited from any structured or adequate training. This has an impact both on the quality of t... |
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Google’s Transparency Report Reveals Data on ...
Google’s latest transparency report, updated today, includes a much-debated policy that has far-reaching implications for access to information and privacy rights. One year ago, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that Internet users have the right to request removal of their names fr... |
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IREX Releases 2015 Media Sustainability Index fo...
This week, IREX released the 14th edition of its Media Sustainability Index (MSI) for Europe and Eurasia. The 2015 MSI paints a worrisome picture of the state of media systems in the region, but despite headline-grabbing setbacks in countries like Azerbaijan, Russia, and Hungary, there is still reas... |
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Five Takeaways From World Press Freedom Day 2015
If anyone needed to be convinced about the importance of press freedom, the events surrounding World Press Freedom Day on May 3 provided ample evidence. Just days before the meeting, Freedom House reported that its annual global press freedom index had suffered the sharpest decline in a decade. To t... |
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The Hardships of Soft Censorship
I’ve been writing about soft, or indirect, censorship ever since I left newspapering and joined CIMA nearly seven years ago. It pains me to say this, but the problem is only getting worse. As we at CIMA and our partners at WAN-IFRA have described it in previous reports: “Soft censorship is used ... |