Blog Posts By

Kate Musgrave

15 Mar

Erdoğan’s clutch on free media tightens with proposed internet regulations

Update: Late on Wednesday, March 21, the Turkish Parliament approved the bill to give the Radio and Television Supreme Coun...

03 Oct

Audiences worldwide are hungry for quality news – and they actively search for it when it matters most

There is growing concern that the channels for digitally distributing news–chief among them Facebook and Google–direct ...

22 Aug

Stoking the flames: Loaded media coverage aggravates China, India standoff

While China and India prepare for next month’s BRICS summit, tensions continue to build between the two high in the Himal...

19 Jul

“A Sickness Beyond Borders:” Understanding and Combating Media Capture

When dozens of journalists, media development experts, and human rights advocates gathered at Central European Universityâ€...

05 Jul

The Growing Challenge of Media Capture: Journalists and Researchers Analyze the Problem

Beginning last week journalists, media workers, and researchers from around the world gathered in Budapest at the Central E...

06 Jun

Censorship in the name of security: Pakistan’s Dawn Leaks case

Tensions between press freedom and national security came to a head recently in Pakistan when the nation’s most widely re...

28 Mar

Chaining the watchdog: Soft censorship and media capture stifle coverage of India’s prolonged land conflict

“New construction seems devoted mostly to four-lane highways – the better to transport government troops into the s...

08 Dec

Lugar, Schiff remember Mark Helmke as CIMA announces partnership with Indiana University

On Thursday, December 1, Indiana University’s School of Global and International Studies (SGIS) joined CIMA and the Natio...

09 Nov

Who to follow on Twitter if you’re interested in Countering Violent Extremism, Media, and Media Development

Global efforts to Counter Violent Extremism (CVE) are a hot topic right now. Just two weeks ago CIMA published a report by ...