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25 Feb

Talking the Talk but Failing to Walk the Walk : The Liberian Government’s Freedom of Expression Problem

By Lamii Kpargoi On July 21, 2012, six months after receiving her second six-year mandate, President Ellen Sirleaf signed t...

24 Feb

Correa’s Creative Use of Copyright Law to Stifle Dissent

By Vanessa Aliaga It is safe to say that Ecuadorean President, Rafael Correa, does not take criticism well. His frenzied Tw...

10 Feb

The Growing Trend Toward Criminalizing Free Speech in Africa

By Lamii Kpargoi Over the last two decades, many African countries have progressed from repressive governance, including s...

04 Jan

The Sustainable Development Goals and a New Era of Development Journalism in Africa

Development journalism in Africa has often been labeled as boring, too positive, and even abstract. It is a world away from...

16 Dec

Will President Mauricio Macri Give a New Role to the Media in Argentina?

By Patricio Provitina In the past decade a number of populist governments in Latin America have implemented significant cha...

03 Dec

Soft censorship has a hard impact on free media

By Andrew Heslop, Director, Press Freedom, WAN-IFRA By using financial and administrative power to pressure media outlets, ...

24 Nov

Introducing Press Start: Crowdsourcing for Media in Repressive Environments

By Jeremy Druker Do you live in a country where the media are not beholden to political or business interests? Where journa...

20 Nov

International Donor Relations and the Government’s Access to Information Policy in Liberia

By Lamii Kpargoi In September 2010, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf signed Liberia’s Freedom of Information (FOI) law. Th...

17 Nov

Publishing for Peanuts: Innovation and the Journalism Startup

By JJ Robinson, journalist/editor and lead author Media innovation and startups are subjects talked about all over the worl...