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Media Development Needs a Community of Scholars
By Paul Rothman and Nick Benequista International assistance to media is facing an existential crisis. While there is a growing recognition of the importance of international assistance to media, the current models of support seems futile when confronted by the magnitude of the current challenges to... |
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Critical Information Consumption is Vital to the...
By Aleksander Dardeli, Executive Vice President of IREX Information may be the world’s most valuable asset. Indeed, it is an essential good that is critical to democracy and the workings of prosperous societies. People need high-quality news and information in order to take actions that will impr... |
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Shifting Trends in Media Development Support: A ...
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Media Development in the Digital Age
By Corinne Cath This post originally appeared on March 14th on the website of Article 19. Watch out for the upcoming report and RSVP here for our discussion on the topic in DC on March 23rd. A breaking headline in a tweet, a presidential inauguration streamed live on social media, and the latest dev... |
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Defending the Defenders: As Risks to Lawyers Inc...
By Jeffrey Ghannam Lawyers are no strangers to severe repercussions for defending human rights or taking on politically sensitive legal matters. But their plight has long been in the shadows, until recently. The Day of the Endangered Lawyer, now in its seventh year and officially commemorated on Jan... |
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How Romania’s independent media woke up its re...
As January came to a close, Romania’s government met late at night on the last day of the month to approve an emergency ordinance that decriminalized cases of official misconduct, or simply put: corruption. In the weeks leading up to this, a few members of the Romanian independent media heard whis... |
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Newly Formed Consultants’ Network Offers P...
By Susan Abbott The Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD) was founded with a focus on media development implementers. Several groups exist to bring together academics doing research on international media topics. Donors have their own groups. And now there is a group centered on the individuals ... |
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Parting Words from Haiti’s Not-So-Sweet Mickey...
By Janelle Nodhturft Williams Former Haitian President Michel Martelly left office on February 7, 2016, the 30th anniversary of the fall of the brutal Duvalier dictatorship. A failed election process leaves the former head of the Senate temporarily at the reigns. Thus, Haiti faces its second interi... |
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Year in Review: Top 5 CIMA Blog Posts of 2015
As 2015 comes to an end, it’s a good time to take stock of which topics attracted the most interest on CIMA’s blog over the past year. To do this, I performed a quick analysis of the number of blog post visitors in order to compile a list of the five most-read blog posts of […] |
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My Time at the Annenberg-Oxford Media Policy Sum...
Earlier this month, I attended the 2015 Annenberg-Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute – a two-week seminar that brings together young scholars and regulators from around the world to discuss important trends in technology and its influence on information policy. As a representative of CIMA, my co... |