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Freedom House finds a generally high level of press freedom in the Asia-Pacific region, but this is partly because Australia and New Zealand are included. Freedom House acknowledges that the “figures disguise considerable sub-regional diversity.” Only five countries in this region (14 percent) are considered to have a press that is not free. The other 30 countries are rated free or partly free. Reporters Without Borders rates no country in the region (again, excluding Australia and New Zealand) as any better than facing noticeable problems. China, Vietnam, and Laos are rated as very serious situations.

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Windows of Opportunity: Media Reform During Political Open...

Windows of Opportunity: Media Reform During Political Openings Wednesday, December 7, 2022 9:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. EST featuring Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Lisa Peterson, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, U.S. Department of State and a conversation with Antonina Cherev...

Should Big Tech Pay for the News?: Policy Interventions to...

Should Big Tech Pay for the News?: Policy Interventions to Rebalance the Relationship Tuesday, September 20, 2022 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. EDT Speakers: Dr. Courtney Radsch, researcher and CIMA report author of “Making Big Tech Pay for the News They Use” Prue Clarke, Executive Director of N...

China’s New Media Dilemma: The Profit in Online Diss...

Thursday, June 27 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. EDT (Lunch served 12:00pm) National Endowment for Democracy 1025 F Street NW, Suite 800 Washington, DC 20004 Speakers: Louisa Chiang, Independent Researcher Sarah Cook, Senior Research Analyst for East Asia, Freedom House Moderator: Mark Nelson,...

Media Assistance in Burma’s Reform Decade

This report, part of the Center for International Media Assistance’s “Media Reform amid Political Upheaval” project, highlights the resiliency and impact of the extensive projects that media assistance actors and donors took in advance of Burma’s 2010 opening. It also serves as a case study ...

Mapping Digital Disinformation around Elections: A Case St...

The 2018 general election represented one of the first times digital disinformation occurred on a massive scale in Pakistan. This report examines different forms of disinformation that circulated online in the lead up to the 2018 elections and its impact on the country’s political discourse. It al...

Beyond the Great Firewall: How China Became a Global Infor...

For their unprecedented scale and effectiveness, China’s efforts at censorship have been dubbed the “Great Firewall.” China, however, now has grander ambitions. Without much fanfare, the Chinese government has turned its focus outward, seeking to take its influence over the information environ...

Media, Migration, and Displacement in South Asia: A Path F...

By Miriam Kueller In spring 2022, more than 50 media professionals, activists, and experts from across South Asia met to develop a plan for improving journalistic reporting on migration and displacement in their respective countries. The region experiences large-scale migration flows, yet refugee a...

Regional Cooperation and a Post-COVID World: The View from...

The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the challenges confronting independent media and forced the media development community—journalists, donors, media practitioners—to rethink how to support for sustainable media ecosystems. Among the wealth of ideas put forward is the need for greater regiona...

Media Ownership in Bangladesh: Why More Media Outlets Does...

By Ali Riaz and Mohammad Sajjadur Rahman Bangladesh's media ecosystem paints a contradictory picture. On the one hand, the country's media sector has witnessed significant growth in the past two decades. On the other hand, media freedom in the country is steadily declining. In 2020, Reporters Wi...