Type: Blog Post
By: Jan Lublinski Editor’s Note: This post was first published on Deutsche Welle Akademie’s website and is republished here with permission. The media in Southeast Asia face a host of issues, foremost of which are government censorship, the concentration of ownership, the lack of political suppo...

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By Gillian McCormack Regional Director for Europe and Eurasia Programs for Internews For many of us working in the field of media and access to information, Ukraine feels like the center of things right now. It is both the target of a misinformation campaign the size and scope of which the world has...

Type: Event
On December 2, CIMA hosted a panel discussion on its recent report, The Pentagon, Information Operations, and International Media Development. The event featured the report’s author, Peter Cary, as well as Rosa Brooks from the U.S. Department of Defense and Internews Networks’ Jeanne Bourgault, ...

Type: Blog Post
The theme of this year’s World Press Freedom Day is Towards Better Reporting, Gender Equality, & Media Safety in the Digital Age.  The issue of gender equality, in particular, highlights how women in the media industry continue to face challenges 20 years after the 1995 Beijing Declaration an...

Type: Event
From Cambodia to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, local United Nations peacekeeping radio programs have helped miti

Type: Blog Post
Among the many controversies roiling our digital information spaces these days, content restrictions are undoubtedly the most hotly debated. Equally important, however, are decisions about the extent to which content is searchable once it is there. After all, in our digital age, if you can’t find ...

Type: Blog Post
By Niko Efstathiou and Bebe Santa-Wood The fight against misinformation in media continues to ramp up. We are witnessing an explosion of proposed solutions and approaches in how to best filter “fake news.” Many foundations, NGOs, and tech platforms are putting money into media literacy, fact-c...

Type: Blog Post
CIMA is cosponsoring an international conference on the challenges to independent media in Latin America, to take place this week in Bogota, Colombia, under the auspices of the Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and UNESCO. Ot...

Type: Blog Post
By Laxmi Parthasarathy Nearly two decades ago as a pre-teen, I used to deliver several hundred copies of the Scarborough Mirror, a free community paper in the northeast corner of Toronto twice a week.  At the time, this was the go-to source of information for community news, and it filled an infor...

Type: Blog Post
By Elie Smith Editor’s Note: On Saturday March 19th the Ministry of the Interior of the Congo ordered telecommunications companies to cut all mobile phone, text message, and Internet service for at least 48 hours in order to prevent “illegal” reporting of election results.  The pe...