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Youngest Country; Oldest Problem: Attacks on the...
Sherry Ricchiardi, Ph.D. , is a media development specialist. In May, she was a guest speaker at World Press Freedom Day Conference in Juba, South Sudan, and conducted workshops as part of the Department of State U.S. Speaker Program on Journalism Training and Safety. The views expressed here are ... |
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Negotiating Freedom of Expression
Raza Rumi is a Visiting Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy. The views expressed here are his own. The unresolved debate on freedom of expression was reignited when Islamic militants killed 14 staffers of French magazine Charlie Hebdo last January, ostensibly for the cartoons that offende... |
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The cost of crime and violence to freedom of the...
Guest post by Ariana Szepesi-Colmenares Homicide rates among the highest in the world; increasing citizens’ fear of crime; urban violence at its peak; pervasive levels of organized crime in all its forms. Citizens, governments, academics, the international community of donors–everybody talk... |
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Enough with Whispering about Media Freedom
Simegnish “Lily” Mengesha is a Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy. The views expressed here are her own.For any ordinary person, engaging in discussion with the world’s most powerful leader feels close to impossible. But I experienced the impossible when I ... |
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Standards of Professionalism: Mali’s press...
Tidiani Togola is a Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy. The views expressed here are his own. Most of the press professionals in Mali learn on the job. They have not benefited from any structured or adequate training. This has an impact both on the quality of t... |
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Reflections on the World Press Freedom Day 2015 ...
Last week’s WPFD conference posed a new narrative about press freedom in Africa. Although the difficulties are formidable, the determination of African journalists to do their job, to write and talk about what they wish, to exercise their human right to freedom of expression, cannot be denied. ... |
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Meanwhile, in Latin America…
It’s a sign of how far press freedom in Latin America has sunk that a leading expert on press freedom in the region can point to Cuba as a potential bright spot amid a sea of negative developments in the region. At a briefing on the state of freedom of expression in Latin America on […] |
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Freedom of the Press 2015: New Report
Press freedom has declined to its lowest point in more than ten years—an unfortunately common figure we’ve seen in Freedom House’s analysis, as the global Internet freedom scores released late last year revealed a similar downward trend. Perhaps most disturbing is the rate of decline in press... |
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Standardizing Censorship: The World’s 10 M...
The Committee to Protect Journalists analyzes the global trends in press freedom each year, chronicling both individual stories and broader institutional frameworks that prohibit the free flow of information from journalists to citizens. This year, CPJ’s analysis includes trends in censorship, hi... |
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The State of Media in Africa: Progress for Press...
Dave Peterson is Senior Director of the Africa Regional Program at the National Endowment for DemocracyAfrican journalists don’t have it easy, and the continuing assaults on press freedom across the continent are cause for concern. But not enough focus has been given to the real progress that jo... |