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Latin American Media: Point-Counterpoint
For Omar Rincón, director of the Journalism Institute of the University of the Andes in Colombia, there are essentially three types of media landscapes in Latin America: Countries where media dominates the government and sets the agenda. These, according to Rincón, would be Mexico, Colombia, Peru,... |
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Participate in our Do-Over Webinar!
Join CIMA for an interactive online discussion on June 26 at 10:00 a.m. Back in May, CIMA hosted a webinar that didn’t work due to connectivity issues. We took some time to learn from our mistakes and will be back in action on Thursday, June 26 from 10:00-11:00 a.m. Eastern time! It has been an [&... |
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Yes, media freedoms can be measured
The real question is who holds the yardstick If you hang around the halls of United Nations and World Bank long enough, you’re sure to encounter the old saw that goes something like this: “We have nothing against setting targets, but things like governance and press freedom just can’t be measu... |
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Sunlight on Soft Censorship: A Global Review
Guest post by CIMA editorial consultant Thomas R. Lansner, writer/editor of Soft Censorship, Hard Impact. Writing about “soft censorship” can be hard. Hard because the definition and even the concept is relatively new and still open to debate. Hard too because soft censorship is by intent elusiv... |
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Metrics in Journalism Evaluation: Can they benef...
Guest post by Amanda Wilson of UPI Next There are some basic journalism standards – accuracy, balance, good storytelling – that are sacrosanct to journalists across the world. That is the idea behind diverse attempts to create tools for evaluating journalism content produced in newsrooms or ... |
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Understanding Data: Can News Media Rise to the C...
“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” –Attributed by Mark Twain to Benjamin Disraeli I once heard a reporter just back from a foreign assignment grumble as she puzzled over exchange rates for her travel expense report: “I went into journalism because I was t... |
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Independent Media Fostering Justice and Peace: L...
Guest post by Julio Rank and Melissa Nolan of the National Endowment for Democracy. Since its launch in March 2009, La Silla Vacía (The Empty Chair) has gone from a pilot initiative to one of the most respected media outlets in the country. With an innovative approach that blends journalism, think ... |
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Post-2015 and Media Development: An Online Discu...
CIMA held an online event on May 21, 2014 featuring Article 19 on the role of media in strengthening accountability. The goal was to bring a new audience to the discussion of the media sector’s role in development, and how media would fit into the post-2015 agenda. Below is a collection of res... |
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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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Media’s Role in Strengthening Accountabili...
Join CIMA for an interactive online discussion on May 21 at 9:00 a.m. In recent months, CIMA has written extensively on raising the profile of the media sector . CIMA senior director Mark Nelson attended a high level meeting in Mexico regarding this topic, and we are continuing to seek out ways to... |