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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 He was living in Moscow and working for Radio Liberty when he suddenly found himself under intense scrutiny: His visa was revoked by Russian authorities, and he was banned from the country.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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What Do We Do About the Flat Line?
It’s time to put media back at the core of development. Almost any way you look at or measure them, conditions for the news media in developing countries are not improving. Despite exploding growth in mobile phones and Internet connectivity across the world, the creation of high quality, ind... |
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Wrap Up: Cuba Event
Information Denied: Cuban Media and the Defense of Press Freedom We were all thrilled to welcome Normando Hernandez, a former Reagan Fascell fellow, back to the NED to view his new documentary, Freedom Denied: Cuba’s Black Spring. Luis Botello served as a commentator to the video, and discussed ... |
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Authoritarian Regimes and Internet Censorship
Internet Freedom Rates Show Negative Convergence Worldwide Guest post by Christopher Walker and Robert W. Orttung. Not all that long ago, it was widely assumed that the Internet would set off geysers of information everywhere, with political change sure to follow. Instead, it looks as if methods for... |
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Welcome to The Source
With the start of a new year, we at the Center for International Media Assistance are taking stock of our strategy and programs and planning some changes in the way we do business. CIMA, which was started almost a decade ago to provide a platform for research, knowledge exchange and coordination of ... |