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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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CIMA Report: Malaysiakini A Unique Case of Media...
In today’s digitized world, news organizations must be online to survive. And yet, online-only publications struggle to monetize their product, and sustain their content production.CIMA’s latest report, Advancing Independent Journalism While Building a Modern News Business: The Case of Malaysiak... |
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Media Pluralism Key For a Healthy Media Environm...
Guest post by Silvia Chocarro Marcesse There is no question media pluralism and diversity are crucial for strong democracies. The pressing question is how to guarantee it. According to a group of Latin American experts that met in Washington, DC, the media environment in the region needs some regula... |
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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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New Media Merger Law in Ireland
A sustainable, independent media needs supporting institutions—among them, a wide variety of opinions and viewpoints available for public consumption. This includes the question of who owns the media, how they interact with each other, and what happens when one media outlet merges with another. Ev... |
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US Net Neutrality Debate Sees Major Milestone
Net neutrality = the principle that Internet service providers should enable access to all content and applications regardless of the source and without favoring or blocking particular products or websites.It’s a basic definition, yet one people often find hard to grasp. And it’s not something y... |
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Media That Matters 2015
This year, the Center for Media and Social Impact (CMSI) at American University will hold its eleventh annual Media That Matters Conference, a gathering of “established and aspiring filmmakers, nonprofit communication leaders, funders, and students who want to learn and share cutting-edge practic... |
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Keeping Score on Censorship: #JeSuisCharlie in L...
Guest post by Ariana Szepesi-Colmenares#JeSuisCharlie In January 2015, the targeted assassination of French cartoonists working for the satirical journal Charlie Hebdo in Paris moved and alarmed the international community. Voices have been silenced. Censorship 1 – Pencils 0. #YoSoyRayma In Se... |
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National Press Club Examines the Crackdown on Pr...
Given the political tumult in Turkey and the dramatic crackdown on independent media, which reached new heights in December, the National Press Club organized a panel session to discuss this and other challenges for the sector. The Panelists included: Tolga Tanis, Washington correspondent for Hurri... |
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Journal of Democracy 25 Years In: An Interview w...
Taking the Temperature of Democracy “When we started, it was a time when, suddenly, democracy was moving to the center of public consciousness,” Marc Plattner, the co-editor of the Journal of Democracy, says. “There was not a wide literature on democracy in developing countries.” Plattner, a... |