Moving the conversation: Audiences turn away fro...
Each year, the Reuters Institute Digital News Report (DNR) sheds light on the most recent trends in the news industry and news consumption – as Director of Research Rasmus Kleis Nielsen remarked with the launch of the report, “Journalism exists in the context of its audience.” Recognizing ... |
Azerbaijan’s Triple Threat to Media and Freedo...
By Turgut Gambar Azerbaijan has been routinely condemned for its alarming human rights record, endemic levels of corruption, and election fraud. Not surprisingly, according to Freedom House’s 2018 Freedom in the World report, Azerbaijan is assessed as a “not free” country. While Azerbaijan has... |
تحليل “أوراق بنما” ف...
لعله من أهم الأحداث التي شهدها الوسط الإعلامي العالمي هذا العام هو التعاون الناجح وغير المسبوق بين أكثر من ٤٠٠ صحفي استقصائي من ٨٠ دولة و برعاية الاتحاد الدولي للصح... |
In Burma, a Chance for New Momentum on Media Ref...
As Burma’s new National League of Democracy (NLD)-dominated parliament nears the selection of the country’s next president, media reform advocates will be looking for the NLD to continue reforms of the country’s media environment, but little is known about the incoming leadership’s polic... |
Introducing Press Start: Crowdsourcing for Media...
By Jeremy Druker Do you live in a country where the media are not beholden to political or business interests? Where journalists are free to write they want, without fear of fines, beatings, imprisonment, or worse? If so, consider yourself one of a privileged few – a mere 14 percent of the world... |
Publishing for Peanuts: Innovation and the Journ...
By JJ Robinson, journalist/editor and lead author Media innovation and startups are subjects talked about all over the world but little studied outside the US and Europe. For our report ‘Publishing for Peanuts: Innovation and the Journalism Startup’, we sought out new and independent media outl... |
Politics and Rethinking Media Development
Media development has not produced the results that many had hoped for in the early promising years of the post-Soviet period. Too little funding, a lack of coordination among media development actors, and a dearth of data continue to undermine the effectiveness of media development efforts worldw... |
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... |
IREX Releases 2015 Media Sustainability Index fo...
This week, IREX released the 14th edition of its Media Sustainability Index (MSI) for Europe and Eurasia. The 2015 MSI paints a worrisome picture of the state of media systems in the region, but despite headline-grabbing setbacks in countries like Azerbaijan, Russia, and Hungary, there is still reas... |