Toward Free and Independent Media in Latin Ameri...
CIMA is cosponsoring an international conference on the challenges to independent media in Latin America, to take place this week in Bogota, Colombia, under the auspices of the Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and UNESCO. Ot... |
Media Development Needs a Reboot: A Report from ...
By Justin Kosslyn Official donors from around the world spend upwards of $650 million a year on media development. They are spending their money with the expectation that it will meet a technical challenge: training writers to craft good stories, providing equipment, coaching managers on business sk... |
“Political Will” as a Scarce Resource: Media...
Media act as conduits for politically consequential ideas; as such, their political significance is highly relevant. Advances in mass media—first in print, then over broadcast, and most recently on the Internet—have only magnified their reach, influence, and importance. It is therefore no wonder... |
Europe’s failed intervention on Hungarian ...
Since 2010 Hungary–a tiny, EU-member, CEE country–became the symbol for modern, illiberal censorship and dictatorship, oppressing media freedom, introducing soft-censorship and turning public service media to state propaganda. Hungary by today serves as case study on theories of modern dictators... |