Distorting the News in Africa: How Dictators Hav...
By Elie Smith In response to the influence of Western media in their countries, African dictators have ramped up nationalistic and pan-African propaganda through government-sponsored media. These media outlets spend their time either painting an overly rosy picture of the situation in Africa, or att... |
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... |
The Global Transition to Digital TV Broadcasting
This year marks a deadline for a global agreement to transition from the obsolescent analog technology to digital broadcasting for television. Though the deadline is self-imposed, with no formal sanctions if it is missed, it marks a possible turning point for many countries’ media development. ... |
Mapping Digital Media: OSF Project Comes to a Cl...
The Open Society Foundation’s Program on Independent Journalism released its latest and final report mapping digital media in countries around the world. A total of 56 reports were released in the last three years, the majority of which were mapped by CIMA on our website, and all of which detaile... |