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Paper Shortage Undermines Print Media in Venezue...
The media environment in Venezuela remains repressive and closely tied to the Maduro government, making it nearly impossible to publish content that questions the government narrative. Today, the wide-read daily newspaper, El Nacional, remains one of the last independent and critical sources of info... |
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Introducing Press Start: Crowdsourcing for Media...
By Jeremy Druker Do you live in a country where the media are not beholden to political or business interests? Where journalists are free to write they want, without fear of fines, beatings, imprisonment, or worse? If so, consider yourself one of a privileged few – a mere 14 percent of the world&#... |
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International Donor Relations and the Government...
By Lamii Kpargoi In September 2010, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf signed Liberia’s Freedom of Information (FOI) law. That singular act ushered in perhaps the most important piece of governance legislation ever passed in the country’s history. It was a momentous day for many Liberians, especial... |
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Publishing for Peanuts: Innovation and the Journ...
By JJ Robinson, journalist/editor and lead author Media innovation and startups are subjects talked about all over the world but little studied outside the US and Europe. For our report ‘Publishing for Peanuts: Innovation and the Journalism Startup’, we sought out new and independent media outl... |
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Toward Free and Independent Media in Latin Ameri...
CIMA is cosponsoring an international conference on the challenges to independent media in Latin America, to take place this week in Bogota, Colombia, under the auspices of the Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and UNESCO. Ot... |
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Media Development Needs a Reboot: A Report from ...
By Justin Kosslyn Official donors from around the world spend upwards of $650 million a year on media development. They are spending their money with the expectation that it will meet a technical challenge: training writers to craft good stories, providing equipment, coaching managers on business sk... |
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Landscape for Journalists in Pakistan Going from...
Another Pakistani journalist has been killed. Zaman Mehsud was attacked on November 3 in the country’s northwestern province, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa–a conflict zone that has turned deadly for journalists. The Taliban quickly claimed the responsibility for attacking Mehsud and cited his critical writ... |
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“Political Will” as a Scarce Resource: Media...
Media act as conduits for politically consequential ideas; as such, their political significance is highly relevant. Advances in mass media—first in print, then over broadcast, and most recently on the Internet—have only magnified their reach, influence, and importance. It is therefore no wonder... |