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Takeaways from the global internet report
By Lena Nitsche This post originally appeared on Deutsche Welle Akademie’s #Mediadev blog. According the 2015 Global Internet Report, increased mobile phone penetration isn’t just allowing hundreds of millions of people around the world access to the internet for the first time – users... |
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Media in Conflict: The Case of Zello
Often, in situations of conflict or war, the media is fueled by rumors. Conflicting political parties or others who have control of the media can pursue specific political agendas, regardless of the veracity of their information. The battle to inform the community can lead to an overload of informat... |
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Negotiating Freedom of Expression
Raza Rumi is a Visiting Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy. The views expressed here are his own. The unresolved debate on freedom of expression was reignited when Islamic militants killed 14 staffers of French magazine Charlie Hebdo last January, ostensibly for the cartoons that offende... |
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The Next Billion: Internet Governance Forum USA
So what will be the obstacles to getting just the next billion online? The question was debated at the annual U.S. Internet Governance Forum in Washington, and will be the subject of another round of debates at the Global Internet Governance Forum in Brazil later this year. There are 3 billion peo... |
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New report: The “dark side” of media develop...
Media development, as we define it at CIMA, encompasses more than interventions and investment by donors and implementers in the global media sphere—it refers to the evolution of media systems in and of themselves. Taken in that vein, there is a “dark side” to media development, one that refer... |
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“Soft Censorship is Very Deleterious for Journ...
This post originally appeared on softcensorship.org. WAN-IFRA Don Podesta, manager and editor at the Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) based within the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) in Washington D.C., published ‘Soft Censorship: How governments around the globe use money t... |
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The View from a U.S. University Campus Abroad
This post accompanies CIMA’s latest report, Global Journalism Education: A Missed Opportunity for Media Development? by long-time university journalism educator Charles C. Self. Although this paper deals primarily with journalism education in non-U.S. universities, American journalism schools... |
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Storify: Strengthening Freedom of Expression in ...
[View the story “Strengthening Freedom of Expression in a Multicultural World” on Storify] |
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Takeaways from the World News Media Congress 201...
The three-day-plus meeting of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) in Washington this week presented a veritable firehose of information, analysis, opinion, and prognostication about the state and future of the newspaper industry around the world. And by “newspaper in... |
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The New Age of Censorship and Intimidation
Sounds, well … intimidating doesn’t it? This was the title of a panel I moderated during the WAN-IFRA’s World News media Congress 2015 in Washington DC this week. The panel grew out of an ongoing joint project by CIMA and WAN-IFRA to research and track the spread of “soft censorship,” a to... |