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Putting machine learning to work to measure medi...
By Samhir Vasdev Quality, fact-based news—and trust between citizens and journalists—is essential to helping people make informed decisions about important issues. But traditional methods to evaluate media content are resource-intensive and time-consuming. Pilot research by IREX suggests that, w... |
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Shifting Trends in Media Development Support: A ...
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Diversifying Internet Governance with a Focus on...
Seeing as the Internet is now, in many countries, the primary conduit for the circulation of independent journalism, how it is governed will impact both media development and press freedom. Will global Internet policies foster the free circulation of information? Will they be structured in ways that... |
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The International Community in Ethiopia is Wrong...
There is a common perception in the international diplomatic community in Addis Ababa that putting public pressure on the Ethiopian government to improve human rights and other basic democratic freedoms is likely to backfire. Ethiopia’s current government—which has been strongly influenced by Et... |
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What are media development donors funding?
Never has the question of media development funding seemed more urgent. Not only is the media going through baffling changes in business models and technologies, but authoritarian governments around the world are cracking down on media freedoms, imprisoning journalists and trying to control the Inte... |
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5 Takeaways for Improving Media Coverage for Syr...
By Madeline Wilson Rula Asad, Caroline Ayoub, and Milia Eidmouni are tired of seeing the same image of a worn-down Syrian woman splashed across front pages around the world. The three women are all deeply involved in the Syrian media landscape; Asad and Eidomoni co-founded the Syrian Female Journali... |
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State takeover of public media in Poland: Is an ...
The Polish Media Development Success Story In the early 1990s, Poland went through one of the most far-reaching and, at times, traumatic media reform programs that the world has ever seen. Formerly state-owned media enterprises were privatized with breathtaking speed. Legal and regulatory structures... |
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UN Secretary General Calls for Media in Post-201...
The campaign for media and access to information’s inclusion in the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals gained a new advocate last week in UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, who reaffirmed their importance in a synthesis report for the SDGs. The report, noting the evolving information needs of ... |
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Event wrap-up: Data Journalism
Using data journalism to bridge the gap from media to overall development One of CIMA’s first blog posts highlighted the importance of raising the visibility of media development across sectors. Since then, we have taken an active role in working toward building ties with other sectors and resear... |
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Africa Summit 2014: Recommendations for the Medi...
Yesterday, we offered a behind-the-scenes look at what representatives of the media sector in Africa saw as the greatest challenges facing the region’s media development. Today, that group met in Washington to make recommendations on how to combat these challenges. The panel’s spokespers... |