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Analyzing the Panama Papers in Baghdad: An Inter...
The unprecedented collaboration of over 400 investigative journalists in more than 80 countries to analyze the 11.5 million files leaked from the database of the fourth-largest offshore law firm in the world, Mossack Fonseca, has been one of the biggest global media stories of the year. Some have ar... |
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تحليل “أوراق بنما” ف...
لعله من أهم الأحداث التي شهدها الوسط الإعلامي العالمي هذا العام هو التعاون الناجح وغير المسبوق بين أكثر من ٤٠٠ صحفي استقصائي من ٨٠ دولة و برعاية الاتحاد الدولي للصح... |
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Media in Latin America: A Glass Half Full or Hal...
CIMA’s blog has often addressed the sorry state of media in Latin America, and my own posts on the subject have mostly emphasized the sorry aspect. A few scattered recent developments taken together, however, offer a glimmer of hope that maybe things will begin to turn around for media in the regi... |
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Developing local media systems for Syrian refuge...
According to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), as of May 5, 2016, there are 4,834,414 registered Syrian refugees. For comparison, this is roughly the size of Ireland’s total population and includes 2.1 million people currently in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, and Lebanon and 2.7 million people in Turkey. ... |
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Zero-rating the news: How will sponsored data in...
Personal mobile devices are increasingly the primary way people both log in to social networks and check the news. This is particularly true in the developing world where in many places mobile networks are the only way to connect to the Internet. Yet, mobile data plans are often quite expensive and ... |
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Ukraine’s Media: In Some Ways, Better Than You...
By Gillian McCormack Regional Director for Europe and Eurasia Programs for Internews For many of us working in the field of media and access to information, Ukraine feels like the center of things right now. It is both the target of a misinformation campaign the size and scope of which the world has... |
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Divides and Nastiness Aside: The (few) advantage...
I lived in Beirut for over two years starting in 2012, where I worked on grassroots empowerment initiatives with a Lebanese and Syrian NGO. Media is a central part of life in Beirut, and Lebanese have a complicated obsession with their media. TV and radio relentlessly blast the insults being hurled ... |
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Promoting access to ICTs in Africa: Enhancing Po...
By Ateki Seta Caxton Editor’s Note: This week the Web We Want initiative of the World Wide Web Foundation is sponsoring the F.A.S.T. Africa: Full Internet for All week of action. The goal is to raise awareness about the need for high speed Internet throughout Africa. CIMA supports efforts to addre... |
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Newly Formed Consultants’ Network Offers P...
By Susan Abbott The Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD) was founded with a focus on media development implementers. Several groups exist to bring together academics doing research on international media topics. Donors have their own groups. And now there is a group centered on the individuals ... |