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Almost there: A common-sense indicator for the U...
By Bill Orme After months of debate, the United Nations appears ready to begin official monitoring of legal guarantees for public access to information in all 193 UN member states, greatly strengthening a potentially historic effort to transform this principle into a new universal norm. This is a ... |
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CIMA and Indiana University Announce New Post-do...
In partnership with Indiana University’s School for Global and International Studies (SGIS), CIMA is pleased to announce the creation of “The Mark Helmke Postdoctoral Scholarship on Global Media, Development, and Democracy.” Through this exciting new initiative, SGIS and CIMA seek to contribut... |
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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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In the age when everything is going digital, is ...
That’s the question we will try to answer this week in a special trans-Atlantic dialogue featuring a new CIMA report with responses from the World Bank, Internews and BBC Media Action. I will be moderating the panel of experts who have been grappling for decades with the question of how to introdu... |
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Donor Support to Media Development: Defining the...
CIMA Launches Media Development Support Donor SurveyProject by Tara Susman-Peña and Tom Lansner CIMA is launching a Media Development Support Donor Survey to identify donor priorities and trends and to help paint a broad picture of the support landscape. CIMA will publish a series of summaries of d... |
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What is media development? Lessons learned from ...
This week, CIMA hosted a panel of experts from around the media development community to engage in a debate about where the field is headed. At CIMA, we’ve organized our thinking on media development into four interconnected issue areas that reflect macro concepts in the field: effectiveness, sust... |
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A New Website to Reflect Action-Focused Strategy...
It’s easy to be pessimistic about the state of media in the world today. Despite the global spread of technology and connectivity, press freedom has been declining for almost a decade and the producers of high quality news and information are struggling to find new business models to sustain their... |
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Is the Private Sector the Key to Reversing Inter...
Guest post by John Sinden of American University SIS International Relations Online Turkey, heralded as a modern secular republic, has been increasingly plagued by political polarization, authoritarian policies, and massive protests. During times of protest, Turkish citizens are finding themselves ... |
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Yes, media freedoms can be measured
The real question is who holds the yardstick If you hang around the halls of United Nations and World Bank long enough, you’re sure to encounter the old saw that goes something like this: “We have nothing against setting targets, but things like governance and press freedom just can’t be measu... |
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What you need to know: Media Freedom for a Bette...
Day One of UNESCO’s World Press Freedom Day Conference If you work in the media field, World Press Freedom Day is nothing new. It takes place each year. Conferences and events are held around the world (see, for example, our event from last week in Washington, DC), and UNESCO hosts the flagship co... |