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Media, Migration, and Displacement in South Asia...
By Miriam Kueller In spring 2022, more than 50 media professionals, activists, and experts from across South Asia met to develop a plan for improving journalistic reporting on migration and displacement in their respective countries. The region experiences large-scale migration flows, yet refugee an... |
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Regional Cooperation and a Post-COVID World: The...
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the challenges confronting independent media and forced the media development community—journalists, donors, media practitioners—to rethink how to support for sustainable media ecosystems. Among the wealth of ideas put forward is the need for greater regiona... |
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Media Ownership in Bangladesh: Why More Media Ou...
By Ali Riaz and Mohammad Sajjadur Rahman Bangladesh’s media ecosystem paints a contradictory picture. On the one hand, the country’s media sector has witnessed significant growth in the past two decades. On the other hand, media freedom in the country is steadily declining. In 2020, Repo... |
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Fighting on Two Fronts: Journalists in the Phili...
For journalists in the Philippines, the battle against disinformation occurs on two fronts: online and in the courtroom. Take, for example, the case of Rappler, a hard-hitting digital news outlet created in 2012 by a group of well-respected Filipino journalists. Since its inception, the site’s... |
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“POFMA,” Politics, and the Press in Singapor...
By Jonathan Hew Prompted by global concerns around “fake news,” Singapore has joined a growing list of governments that have put forward a legislative answer. The country’s “Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act, “POFMA,” came into force in early October. Despite repeate... |
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When Media Capture Backfires: Local Elections an...
Duygu Güvenç and Jérémie Langlois Turkey captivated the world’s attention recently as President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s seemingly unstoppable accumulation of power ground to a halt in a series of humiliating defeats in local elections. To the surprise of many, digital news media emerged as a... |
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Social Media Shutdowns Restrict the Flow of Info...
By Samuel Woodhams Following the tragic terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka earlier this year that killed over 250 people, the government blocked popular social media platforms and messaging apps in an attempt to prevent the spread of misinformation online. However, the ban not only blocked misinformatio... |
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India’s Other Media Boom
Digital news and social media hold increasing sway over public opinion, but as the world’s largest democracy goes to the polls, it may be time to ask: Just how important is digital media in India? Between April 11 and May 19, more than 900 million Indians will be eligible to vote in the nation’s... |
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Decline in attacks masks a deeper challenge for ...
In Pakistan, press freedom has ticked up amid a decline in attacks on journalists over the past year, but recent reports suggest the promising numbers mask a deeper challenge of self-censorship. One recent study by Media Matters for Democracy found that roughly 88 percent of Pakistani journalists ad... |
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Holding the Line: An Interview with Tanya Hamada...
The last two years have been a tumultuous period for Filipino democracy. Since the People Power Revolution in 1986, the Philippines became something of a beacon for democratic development in a region beset by authoritarian rule. But in the face of President Duterte’s violent so-called “drug war... |