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Upcoming event: Strengthening Freedom of Express...
CIMA’s latest event, Strengthening Freedom of Expression in a Multicultural World, will be held on June 9 from 12:00-2:00. To give this conversation greater global scope, we are partnering with the Media Diversity Institute, an NGO that works works internationally to encourage and facilitate... |
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Google’s Transparency Report Reveals Data on ...
Google’s latest transparency report, updated today, includes a much-debated policy that has far-reaching implications for access to information and privacy rights. One year ago, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that Internet users have the right to request removal of their names fr... |
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Five Takeaways From World Press Freedom Day 2015
If anyone needed to be convinced about the importance of press freedom, the events surrounding World Press Freedom Day on May 3 provided ample evidence. Just days before the meeting, Freedom House reported that its annual global press freedom index had suffered the sharpest decline in a decade. To t... |
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The Hardships of Soft Censorship
I’ve been writing about soft, or indirect, censorship ever since I left newspapering and joined CIMA nearly seven years ago. It pains me to say this, but the problem is only getting worse. As we at CIMA and our partners at WAN-IFRA have described it in previous reports: “Soft censorship is used ... |
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Freedom of the Press 2015: New Report
Press freedom has declined to its lowest point in more than ten years—an unfortunately common figure we’ve seen in Freedom House’s analysis, as the global Internet freedom scores released late last year revealed a similar downward trend. Perhaps most disturbing is the rate of decline in press... |
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Standardizing Censorship: The World’s 10 M...
The Committee to Protect Journalists analyzes the global trends in press freedom each year, chronicling both individual stories and broader institutional frameworks that prohibit the free flow of information from journalists to citizens. This year, CPJ’s analysis includes trends in censorship, hi... |
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GCCS 2015: A Journalist’s Perspective
Watchdogs Under Watch is a series of personal stories from journalists, bloggers, and activists around the world, as they encounter and combat surveillance and cyber security issues. This series and corresponding report, written for the Center for International Media Assistance, is in partnership wi... |
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How to Deal With Cyber Security?
Robert Molenaar is an IT engineer with RNW, specialising in network security. Watchdogs Under Watch is a series of personal stories from journalists, bloggers, and activists around the world, as they encounter and combat surveillance and cyber security issues. This series and corresponding report, ... |
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The Hard Truth About Cyber Security
Watchdogs Under Watch is a series of personal stories from journalists, bloggers, and activists around the world, as they encounter and combat surveillance and cyber security issues. This series and corresponding report, written for the Center for International Media Assistance, is in partnership wi... |
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All Cybersecurity, All the Time, Part III
Washington continues to be engrossed in the subject of cyber everything, and today’s news developments and events in that arena offer a study in contrasts. CIMA and the National Endowment for Democracy hosted a discussion about online security in conflict-riven Ukraine in the morning, and the Cent... |