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“Soft Censorship is Very Deleterious for Journ...
This post originally appeared on softcensorship.org. WAN-IFRA Don Podesta, manager and editor at the Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) based within the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) in Washington D.C., published ‘Soft Censorship: How governments around the globe use money t... |
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The New Age of Censorship and Intimidation
Sounds, well … intimidating doesn’t it? This was the title of a panel I moderated during the WAN-IFRA’s World News media Congress 2015 in Washington DC this week. The panel grew out of an ongoing joint project by CIMA and WAN-IFRA to research and track the spread of “soft censorship,” a to... |
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The Hardships of Soft Censorship
I’ve been writing about soft, or indirect, censorship ever since I left newspapering and joined CIMA nearly seven years ago. It pains me to say this, but the problem is only getting worse. As we at CIMA and our partners at WAN-IFRA have described it in previous reports: “Soft censorship is used ... |
