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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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The Statistical Commission Speaks: First Indicat...
Next week, from March 23rd through the 27th, the UN General Assembly will for the first time directly discuss the specifics of the 17 proposed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their 169 associated ‘targets’ – and the multiple yet-to-be-assigned factual ‘indicators’ by which the... |
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Will Statisticians Get the Last Word on the UN...
There are three things you need to know about the negotiations over the United Nations’ next set of global development goals, which will be adopted by world leaders at the General Assembly this September and remain in effect for the next 15 years: Almost everybody agrees that the proposed 17 Susta... |
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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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International Women’s Day 2015: A Need for Mor...
The International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) announced the opening of the Howard G. Buffett Fund for Women Journalists earlier this week, which will grant an annual total of $230,000 for projects that will “lead to the exposure of under-reported stories, strengthen story-telling skills,... |
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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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Assessment and Impact: From Media That Matters 2...
In October of last year, CIMA released the report Measuring the Audience: Why It Matters to Independent News Media and How It Can Contribute to Media Development. In the report, Michelle Foster explores how audience measurement can be a tool in gauging the media’s impact on people in developing ... |
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International Mother Language Day: How Digital T...
A previous blog post explored the importance of linguistically diverse and culturally relevant online material. February 21 is UNESCO’s International Mother Language Day and the theme of this year’s celebration is “Inclusion in and through education: Language counts.” With... |
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Reporters Without Borders Releases 2015 Press Fr...
The latest analysis of the state of press freedom around the world paints a grim picture, as the Reporters Without Borders 2015 Press Freedom Index reports that two thirds of the 180 countries surveyed registered a decline. RSF reported declines in every region of the world, but the European Union a... |
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All Cybersecurity, All the Time
Suddenly cyber everything is all the rage in Washington. This month there have been several panel discussions and book launches around town having to do with government cyber surveillance, cybersecurity, and their effect on freedom of expression and journalism. And more are scheduled. The Washington... |