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Open Journalism and the Open Road Ahead
Guest post by Dunja Mijatovic, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media As the technological landscape evolves in an increasingly digitized world, so widens the wellspring of news and information: shaky cell phone footage, amateur photography, even hastily composed tweets and social media posts.... |
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Lies, damned lies and media development
False facts are a problem everywhere; In developing countries, they’re devastating Accusations of inaccuracies in the news media are nothing new. After all, American journalism went through its infamous “yellow” period at the end of the 19th century when invented stories helped drive the US to... |
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Report: Journalism Training in the Digital Era
Thoughts from leaders in media development CIMA’s latest report, Journalism Training in the Digital Era: Views from the Field, remarks upon the digital revolution for media development. Practitioners are hard pressed to find a request for proposal that doesn’t incorporate some new media ... |
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Crowdsourcing Journalism Ethics: Thoughts on ONA...
As far as we at CIMA can tell, the Online News Association’s Build Your Own Ethics Code Project, launched this month, is a first. It is a crowd-sourced “mechanism to help news organizations, small startups and individual journalists and bloggers create their own codes of ethics,” writes projec... |
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Update: OSF Wraps Digital Media Mapping Project
As we noted in this space on March 28, CIMA was pleased to participate in the Open Society Foundation’s Mapping Digital Media project over the past few years. Today, Marius Dragomir, senior manager and publications editor for the OSF’s Program on Independent Journalism, writes about the conclusi... |
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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... |