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Latin American Media: Point-Counterpoint
For Omar Rincón, director of the Journalism Institute of the University of the Andes in Colombia, there are essentially three types of media landscapes in Latin America: Countries where media dominates the government and sets the agenda. These, according to Rincón, would be Mexico, Colombia, Peru,... |
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Independent Media Fostering Justice and Peace: L...
Guest post by Julio Rank and Melissa Nolan of the National Endowment for Democracy. Since its launch in March 2009, La Silla Vacía (The Empty Chair) has gone from a pilot initiative to one of the most respected media outlets in the country. With an innovative approach that blends journalism, think ... |
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What you need to know: Media Freedom for a Bette...
Day One of UNESCO’s World Press Freedom Day Conference If you work in the media field, World Press Freedom Day is nothing new. It takes place each year. Conferences and events are held around the world (see, for example, our event from last week in Washington, DC), and UNESCO hosts the flagship co... |
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Update: OSF Wraps Digital Media Mapping Project
As we noted in this space on March 28, CIMA was pleased to participate in the Open Society Foundation’s Mapping Digital Media project over the past few years. Today, Marius Dragomir, senior manager and publications editor for the OSF’s Program on Independent Journalism, writes about the conclusi... |
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Mapping Digital Media: OSF Project Comes to a Cl...
The Open Society Foundation’s Program on Independent Journalism released its latest and final report mapping digital media in countries around the world. A total of 56 reports were released in the last three years, the majority of which were mapped by CIMA on our website, and all of which detaile... |
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Soft Censorship: Report from Mexico
CIMA Releases Next Report in Series Partnership with WAN-IFRA When international media watchers think about Mexico’s press, the first image that often comes to mind is the tragedy of journalists getting killed or censoring themselves in an effort to avoid that fate. But Mexico’s news media has a... |
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The Role of Political Cartoons in Ecuador
RSVP here for the March 18th event at Freedom House!Communications Law in Ecuador: When Censoring a Political Cartoon Becomes a Presidential Priority CIMA, NED, and Freedom House sponsored an event on March 5 to raise awareness of Ecuador’s most recent controversy involving Xavier Bonilla, a promi... |
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Event: Communications Law in Ecuador
Communications Law in Ecuador: When Censoring a Cartoon Becomes a Presidential Priority Since President Rafael Correa won his reelection, he has used a series of laws and decrees to constrain criticism and dissent. The most visible victims of these new laws are journalists. In June 2013, the Nationa... |
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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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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 ... |