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Russia’s Internet Crackdown
By Guest Blogger As part of Russia’s authoritarian turn following Vladimir Putin’s return to the presidency in May 2012, the Kremlin has launched an unprecedented crackdown on the Russian Internet. A barrage of restrictive new laws, the blocking of websites critical of the government, the prose... |
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A Bold Investment Fund to Create Independent Med...
By Aleksander Dardeli Governments have directly and indirectly resumed predominance of the media markets in many former communist-bloc nations in Central and Eastern Europe. Responsible editorial standards that were introduced after the fall of communism have eroded or are altogether out of fashion.... |
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Poland’s Shifting Media Environment: Thre...
In January, the newly governing right-wing Law and Justice party (PiS) passed changes to Polish media law that critics argued did away with protections meant to insulate public service media from political meddling. At the time, CIMA’s Senior Director Mark Nelson wrote about the potential threat... |
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Caught between the East and West: The “Media W...
By Marija Šajkaš and Milka Tadić Mijović As EU and U.S. assistance to independent media in Serbia and Montenegro declines, Russians are seizing the opportunity to support and promote pro-Russian media, broadcasting news in the local language, and investing in media development in the western Bal... |
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Storify Event Round-up: The Deteriorating Media ...
[View the story “Event Round-up: The Deteriorating Media Environment in Central and Southeast Europe – Next Steps” on Storify] |
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State takeover of public media in Poland: Is an ...
The Polish Media Development Success Story In the early 1990s, Poland went through one of the most far-reaching and, at times, traumatic media reform programs that the world has ever seen. Formerly state-owned media enterprises were privatized with breathtaking speed. Legal and regulatory structures... |
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Propaganda and Misinformation in Russia
Misinformation in the global context is a major problem, especially in an age of rapidly spreading information technology. As information crosses borders at an unprecedented pace, some sophisticated authoritarian regimes are using this to their advantage. A briefing sponsored by Freedom House highli... |
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CPJ Report Release: Press Freedom in the Europea...
The Committee to Protect Journalists released “Balancing Act: Press Freedom at Risk as EU Struggles to March Action with Values” in Brussels on September 29, 2015. CPJ’s latest report, “Balancing Act: Press Freedom at Risk as EU Struggles to March Action with Values,” highlights the challe... |
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Europe’s failed intervention on Hungarian ...
Since 2010 Hungary–a tiny, EU-member, CEE country–became the symbol for modern, illiberal censorship and dictatorship, oppressing media freedom, introducing soft-censorship and turning public service media to state propaganda. Hungary by today serves as case study on theories of modern dictators... |
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Google’s Transparency Report Reveals Data on ...
Google’s latest transparency report, updated today, includes a much-debated policy that has far-reaching implications for access to information and privacy rights. One year ago, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that Internet users have the right to request removal of their names fr... |