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CIMA Year-in-Review 2024
By Ariane Gottlieb 2024 was a turbulent year for independent journalism. Media outlets continued to fight for financial sustainability and editorial autonomy amid deepening autocratization and a deteriorating landscape for digital freedoms. CIMA worked to identify potential responses to these challe... |
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‘My Job is for Humanity’: Afghan Journalists...
For years, independent Afghan newspaper Etilaatroz has published hard-hitting investigations into corruption, discrimination, and nepotism. In 2017, the Afghan parliament stopped the sale of government land due to an investigation by the paper, which showed that then-President Ashraf Ghani sold ... |
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“Television and the Afghan Culture Wars:&#...
By Noah Arjomand In August 2021, the Taliban upended two decades of international media development efforts in Afghanistan. Both the press and the entertainment industry had been relative success stories amid an otherwise bleak landscape of a corrupt and ineffective donor-dependent state and persist... |
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Women Producing the News: Workplace inequality a...
This is the first in a series of posts on women and media development. When you imagine a journalist or news anchor what comes to mind? Likely you imagine a well-dressed man in a suit behind a large desk with sweeping views of city skyscrapers discussing economic principles, not a woman in rural S... |
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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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World Press Freedom Day: Gender Equality
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... |