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The Domestic Scene of Russian Media: TV is King
The Russian government has depended heavily on the state media to mobilize necessary domestic support in the wake of its seizure of the Crimean peninsula earlier this year. With the number of independent media sources in Russia shrinking and the state-owned broadcasting networks expanding their reac... |
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Russian Media’s Lost Independence
Hello everyone! I am Julianna Jerosch, the CIMA Intern this summer. I am a student at University of Wisconsin-Madison studying political science, economics, and Russian. In August, I am heading to St. Petersburg to study Russian language and culture intensively for a year. Over the next few weeks, I... |
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Ukrainian Journalist Sergii Leshchenko Named ...
Guest post by Marlena Papavaritis of the National Endowment for Democracy, on why investigative journalism matters to the future of Ukraine Long before the Euromaidan protests erupted over Ukrainian citizens’ frustrations with corrupt and unaccountable political leaders, ties between politicians a... |
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Update: OSF Wraps Digital Media Mapping Project
As we noted in this space on March 28, CIMA was pleased to participate in the Open Society Foundation’s Mapping Digital Media project over the past few years. Today, Marius Dragomir, senior manager and publications editor for the OSF’s Program on Independent Journalism, writes about the conclusi... |
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Mapping Digital Media: OSF Project Comes to a Cl...
The Open Society Foundation’s Program on Independent Journalism released its latest and final report mapping digital media in countries around the world. A total of 56 reports were released in the last three years, the majority of which were mapped by CIMA on our website, and all of which detaile... |
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Also Under Siege in Ukraine: The Media
Gauging Media’s Role in Ukraine’s Transition With the crisis in Ukraine still at full boil, it may seem an odd time to start thinking about problems in its media sector. But a closer look at this crisis puts media front and center. And when it comes to reflecting about what the internati... |
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2014 Press Freedom Index Shows A Field Under Fir...
Reporters Without Borders released its 2014 World Press Freedom Index this week, and as is often the case with the release of such indexes, it reopened the conversation about their validity, methodology, and cultural bias. This year the index, which ranks 180 countries according to six criteria, fin... |
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Q&A: Exiled Journalist and CIMA Author Davi...
David Satter, a former Financial Times journalist and author, achieved another distinction a few weeks ago. He was living in Moscow and working for Radio Liberty when he suddenly found himself under intense scrutiny: His visa was revoked by Russian authorities, and he was banned from the country. As... |
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Soft Censorship: Reports from Serbia and Hungary
CIMA Releases Two Reports in a Series on Censorship with WAN-IFRA Some problems facing independent media never seem to go away. When I became associated with CIMA more than five years ago, my assignment was to write a research report about “soft censorship,” the practice by governments at all le... |