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Independent media face stifling business climate...
Despite the oft-praised Cinderella story of Burmese democratization, a range of persistent challenges faces independent media in the country. Access to information and the role of parliament in Burma featured prominently in the presentations at an event hosted by Internews on February 26, but the ab... |
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2014 Press Freedom Index Shows A Field Under Fir...
Reporters Without Borders released its 2014 World Press Freedom Index this week, and as is often the case with the release of such indexes, it reopened the conversation about their validity, methodology, and cultural bias. This year the index, which ranks 180 countries according to six criteria, fin... |
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What Do We Do About the Flat Line?
It’s time to put media back at the core of development. Almost any way you look at or measure them, conditions for the news media in developing countries are not improving. Despite exploding growth in mobile phones and Internet connectivity across the world, the creation of high quality, ind... |
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Soft Censorship: Reports from Serbia and Hungary
CIMA Releases Two Reports in a Series on Censorship with WAN-IFRA Some problems facing independent media never seem to go away. When I became associated with CIMA more than five years ago, my assignment was to write a research report about “soft censorship,” the practice by governments at all le... |
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Wrap Up: Media in Fragile States
Including media in fragile states’ development Despite a snowy week in Washington, CIMA held a discussion cosponsored with BBC Media Action about challenges and opportunities that media in fragile states present to policymakers around the world. The conversation focused on the successes in c... |
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Event: Media Environments in Fragile States
Fragile states are among the most vulnerable media environments around the world. BBC Media Action’s latest report concludes that media increasingly matters in these states. Changes in media and communications are “having increasing and sometimes profound political and developmental effects,” ... |
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Welcome to The Source
With the start of a new year, we at the Center for International Media Assistance are taking stock of our strategy and programs and planning some changes in the way we do business. CIMA, which was started almost a decade ago to provide a platform for research, knowledge exchange and coordination of ... |