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Media in Latin America: A Path Forward

Don Podesta

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2016), 8 pp.

"The Center for International Media Assistance and Deutsche Welle Akademie have launched a series of regional consultations with media stakeholders–civil society and media watchdog NGOs, broadcast regulators, academics, media industry representatives, government officials, and others in the media ... more

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Rethinking Public Service Broadcasting’s Place in International Media Development

Susan Abbott

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2016), 25 pp.

"Media markets are fragmented, audience consumption is siloed, the massive spread of media, entertainment, and news offerings has made it extremely important to set up public service media institutions that will be held to account and be responsible for living up to their public service obligations. ... more

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Media Development and Countering Violent Extremism: An Uneasy Relationship, a Need for Dialogue

Courtney C. Radsch

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2016), 21 pp.

"This report describes how media development practitioners perceive the expansion of the Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) agenda’s influence into various aspects of their field, and the different and sometimes ambivalent ways in which they respond to these perceptions. Two conclusions emerge str ... more

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Mexican Journalism, Still in the Line of Fire

Rosario Carmona

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2016), 9 pp.

"Sadly, attacks on journalists in Mexico are nothing new. In April 2012, CIMA published a report detailing the violence against the media and recommending steps that the Mexican government could take in order to remedy the situation. The government of Mexico did enact some measures to protect journa ... more

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Global Journalism Education: A Missed Opportunity for Media Development?

Charles C. Self

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2015), 6 pp.

"The recent growth of journalism education around the globe offers new ways for media development organizations to work with budding journalists in places where the media sector is struggling. Improved communications technology and emerging international standards for quality journalism mean top uni ... more

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Watchdogs Under Watch: Media in the Age of Cyber Surveillance

Don Podesta

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2015), 20 pp.

"The fundamental problem with cyber surveillance, even for the most well-intentioned governments, is that laws have not evolved with the technology. Governments must enforce the laws that exist and apply them to the modern age. And they should consider that just because technology makes surveillance ... more

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Official Development Assistance for Media: Figures and Findings

Eduardo González Cauhapé-Cazaux, Shanthi Kalathil

Washington, DC; Paris: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA); OECD (2015), 21 pp.

"While numerous world leaders have recently exhorted the importance of a free press, only a fraction of both total official development assistance (ODA) and governance-related ODA finds its way toward support of mediaIf media and free flow for information is truly a fundamental building block of ope ... more

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Advancing Independent Journalism While Building a Modern News Business: The Case of Malaysiakini

Tim Carrington

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2015), 12 pp.

"Malaysiakini, an online news platform launched in 1999 in a country of continuous and pervasive media controls, has taken advantage of a precarious space allowing comparatively free journalism on the Internet. Its success in Malaysia is two-fold: First, it has increased demand for reliable and inde ... more

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Bad Practices, Bad Faith: Soft Censorship in Macedonia

Vienna; Washington, DC; Paris: South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO); Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA); WAN-IFRA (2015), 26 pp.

"A principal challenge to independent journalism is the symbiotic relationship between the ruling party and many media outlets and their owners. Examples on both the national and local level are described in this report. Government-friendly outlets are bolstered by various means, particularly non-tr ... more

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Eroding Freedoms: Media and Soft Censorship in Montenegro

Ana Vujosevic, Vladimir Vuckovic

Paris; Washington, DC: WAN-IFRA; Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2015), 23 pp.

"Montenegro’s government should support openness and informed debate in making and implementing public policy decisions. Instead, information concerning matters of public interest is often withheld or distorted by government and by pliant media outlets favoured with official assistance. State fund ... more

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Environmental Reporting and Media Development: Equipping Journalists with the Training and Tools to Cover a Critical Beat

Jennifer Dorroh

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2015), 6 pp.

"In the next few decades, we face unprecedented challenges and tough choices about how to use Earth’s resources. Whether we thrive as a species will depend on our ability to think globally and creatively, and to work across borders to solve our common problems. News media worldwide should play a k ... more

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Throwing the Switch: An Update on the State of the Global Transition to Digital TV Broadcasting

John Burgess

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2015), 10 pp.

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The Politics of Media Development: The Importance of Engaging Government and Civil Society

Paul Rothman

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2015), 16 pp.

"In the field of media development, the public sector is often viewed as a monolithic barrier to the development of independent and sustainable media. Although governments do frequently pervert and capture media sectors in countries around the globe, the enabling conditions under which media can ach ... more

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The Pentagon, Information Operations, and International Media Development

Peter Cary

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2015), 18 pp.

"The U.SDefense Department has long had an uneasy relationship with independent mediaOn the one hand, it needs the trusted voice of media to portray U.Smilitary activities in a positive light, both to maintain the support of citizens at home and to help fight its battles abroadAnd to the extent that ... more

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Supporting Internet Freedom: The Case of Iran

Sherry Ricchiardi

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2014), 24 pp.

"The aim of this report is not to question the value of supporting Internet freedom in closed societies such as Iran. Rather, the intent is to provide a picture of how difficult it is to achieve progress in such countries. In times of tightening budgets for media development work, it is worth consid ... more

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Understanding Data: Can News Media Rise to the Challenge?

Tara Susman-Peña

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2014), 38 pp.

"Acknowledgement of the increasingly central role of data in decision making at all levels of society is increasingly visible. The High-Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda called for “A New Data Revolution” that would help track progress toward development goals and ensure the inclus ... more

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Soft Censorship, Hard Impact: A Global Review

Thomas R. Lansner (ed.)

Paris; Washington, DC: World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA); Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2014), 29 pp.

"Official “soft censorship” (or “indirect government censorship”) describes an array of official actions intended to influence media output short of legal or extra-legal bans, direct censorship of specific content, or physical attacks on media outlets or media practitioners [...] A crucial f ... more

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The Last Gasp of Empire: Russia’s Attempts to Control the Media in the Former Soviet Republics

David Satter

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2014), 36 pp.

"Russia still aspires to influence the news media in the former Soviet republics. The objective appears to be to manipulate their media environments in order to promote dependence on Russia and distrust of the West and to help Russia to pursue its political and commercial objectives–such as persua ... more

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Business Journalism Thrives - Even Under Repressive Regimes

Don Podesta

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2014), 8 pp.

"Even as a growing number of authoritarian regimes crack down on the political press, business news is thriving. And the coverage is more vigorous than might be expected. Enterprising journalists are exposing mismanagement and unearthing shady business deals, and even at times exposing official corr ... more

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Telling it Straight: How Trustworthy Government Information Promotes Better Media

Marguerite H. Sullivan

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2014), 25 pp.

"Government communications is challenging in today’s world, which increasingly insists on transparency, accountability, and proactive disclosure, and when news is presented around the clock. At the same time, governments are being called on to communicate across agencies in a coordinated fashion o ... more