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Egypt’s New Anti-Terrorism Law
Update: The Egyptian government passed the new anti-terror law on August 16, setting a minimum fine of $25,000 for journalists who publish false news. The original draft included prison time for journalists breaking this law, but this was removed from the bill following criticism from domestic an... |
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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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Burmese Government Continues Crackdown on Media,...
In a week where the headlines out of Burma were dominated by the final nail on the coffin of Aung San Suu Kyi’s presidential ambitions, little attention is being paid to the government’s all-out assault on the independent media company Eleven Media Group. According to a Freedom House bulletin re... |
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Turkey Election Presents Political Opportunity t...
The election June 7 in Turkey dealt a significant blow to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s plans to transform Turkey’s government into a presidential system—which would have significantly strengthened his political dominance over Turkish politics. Turkish voters may have also provided an openi... |
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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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Media Use in Vietnam: Findings from BBG and Gall...
The biggest takeaway from the findings of the 2015 survey of media use in Vietnam, conducted by the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) and Gallup, is the dramatic demographic shift in the way people are accessing news, as young people increasingly turn to Facebook and Google at the expense of the... |
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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... |