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Covering the Authoritarian Playbook: How Coda St...
For years, Russia has been refining its digital authoritarian playbook, taking advantage of technological advancements to silence the regime’s opponents at home and abroad. The information war that accompanied its invasion of Ukraine has shined a stark light on the corrosive effects of these strat... |
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To Support Ukrainian Media, Abandon the Sustaina...
Nataliya Gumenyuk, award-winning journalist and founder of the Public Interest Journalism Lab (PIJL) in Ukraine, says media support in the country needs to place less emphasis on commercial sustainability. CIMA spoke to Nataliya the day after she received the Democracy Award in recognition of PIJL... |
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“Free, but not independent”: Voice of Americ...
Ukraine’s media sector seems be the subject of dueling narratives at the moment. The launch of a public broadcasting service under trusted leadership gives the impression of momentum in the sector. On the other hand, the country has also made little progress at breaking the financial power that po... |
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Soft Power on the Air: The News with a Russian T...
When the Malaysia Airlines plane crashed in eastern Ukraine last week, the Russian state media began to spread obvious disinformation and anti-Ukraine propaganda. With fabricated witnesses and unlikely hypotheses, consumers of Russian media received a disturbingly false picture of this international... |
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The Domestic Scene of Russian Media: TV is King
The Russian government has depended heavily on the state media to mobilize necessary domestic support in the wake of its seizure of the Crimean peninsula earlier this year. With the number of independent media sources in Russia shrinking and the state-owned broadcasting networks expanding their reac... |
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Ukrainian Journalist Sergii Leshchenko Named ...
Guest post by Marlena Papavaritis of the National Endowment for Democracy, on why investigative journalism matters to the future of Ukraine Long before the Euromaidan protests erupted over Ukrainian citizens’ frustrations with corrupt and unaccountable political leaders, ties between politicians a... |
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Also Under Siege in Ukraine: The Media
Gauging Media’s Role in Ukraine’s Transition With the crisis in Ukraine still at full boil, it may seem an odd time to start thinking about problems in its media sector. But a closer look at this crisis puts media front and center. And when it comes to reflecting about what the internati... |