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Independent Media in Exile
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Bill Ristow

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2011), 43 pp.

"This report offers four recommendations for addressing some of the complex challenges of independent media in exile: donor groups should expand and formalize coordination of their exile-media support [...]; organizations providing international media training should actively seek to train exile-med ... more

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Funding Free Expression: Perceptions and Reality in a Changing Landscape

Anne Nelson

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2011), 25 pp.

"Seven key findings emerged from this research: 1. Overall donor funding for free expression work has increased–not decreased–over the past three to five years [...] 2. Under current conditions, it is impossible to conclusively measure the amount of free expression funding. Donors themselves hav ... more

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Iraq’s News Media After Saddam: Liberation, Repression, and Future Prospects

Sherry Ricchiardi

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2011), 46 pp.

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Matching the Market and the Model: The Business of Independent News Media

Michelle J. Foster

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2011), 34 pp.

"According to this paper, many media businesses lack management skills and experience in developing effective business models. "Compounding this is a lack of media development assistance targeted to media managers, the expansion of economic constraints on media businesses, and a lack of access to in ... more

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U.S. Universities and Media Development

Anne Nelson

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2010), 27 pp.

"In July 2010, World Journalism Education Council gathered more than 400 journalism educators from about 50 countries for the second World Journalism Education Congress in South Africa. There was broad recognition that social media has become a major force in the field that cannot be marginalized an ... d that Africa has become a world-class incubator for media innovation. At the August meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Eric Newton carried these ideas a step farther, laying out the “four transformations” for U.S. journalism programs. Journalism schools are: 1. Becoming better connected to other university disciplines and departments, expanding the definition of what it means to be a journalist; 2. Playing an increasing role as content and technology innovators; 3. Emerging as promoters of collaborative, open approaches and models; 4. Becoming news providers that understand the ecosystem of their communities. In the digital age, journalism schools are trying to engage more deeply with the people we used to call the audience. These transformations are even more urgently required in the field of media development. In the future, media development projects will originate in an ever-widening pool of university departments. These will include law, public health, library science, computer science, international relations, visual design, and even architecture and urban planning, where striking advances in mapping applications are taking place. Nonetheless, programs that specialize in data will also require skills from the traditional journalism toolkit: verification, story-telling ability, and contextualization. Academia could be an ideal setting for this exchange of ideas, a meeting place between core values and technological innovation. Universities could also provide a space for frank discussion about the limitations of technology and the means to discern when new technologies offer concrete benefits to the user and when they constitute a distraction. These questions are even more critical in resource-poor societies in the developing world. To achieve these ends, more coordination is needed, both within and among universities, to serve as a critical bridge–between North and South, between technologists and humanists, between social media and traditional journalism." (Conclusion, page 23) more

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Libel Tourism: Silencing the Press Through Transnational Legal Threats

Drew Sullivan

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2010), 41 pp.

"This report by Drew Sullivan, a journalist, editor, and media development specialist, explains how lawsuits can force media organizations to censor themselves or limit the distribution of their news content, restricting freedom of expression and thus threatening one of the foundations of democracy. ... more

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Covering Corruption: The Difficulties of Trying to Make a Difference

Rosemary Armao

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2010), 37 pp.

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Evaluating the Evaluators: Media Freedom Indexes and What They Measure

John Burgess

Washington, DC; Philadelphia: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA); Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) Annenberg School for Communication (2010), 63 pp.

"The organizations that conduct country rankings should continue to increase technical sophistication, cultural neutrality, and transparency. In particular, continued attention must be paid to digital media, notably the Internet and mobile phones, which now number approximately 4.6 billion worldwide ... more

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Broadcasting in UN Blue: The Unexamined Past and Uncertain Future of Peacekeeping Radio
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Bill Orme

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2010), 73 pp.

"For almost twenty years, United Nations peacekeeping missions have set up local radio stations in conflict-prone countries - 14 to date, seven of which remain in operation. According to this report, some of the fourteen peacekeeping radio stations implemented by the United Nations contributed more ... more

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Winds from the East: How the People’s Republic of China Seeks to Influence the Media in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia

Douglas Farah, Andy Mosher

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2010), 32 pp.

"The People's Republic of China is seeking to influence the media in Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia through a variety of means: direct aid to state-run media in the form of radio transmitters and financing for national satellites; the provision of content and technology to allies and pote ... more

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Cash for Coverage: Bribery of Journalists Around the World

Bill Ristow

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2010), 33 pp.

"With all the organized efforts to support media development and defend press freedom around the world, there has been remarkably little done in any concerted way to reduce the problem of corrupt journalism", states this report. Ristow proposes that international journalism organizations should issu ... more

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The Pentagon, Information Operations, and International Media Development

Peter Cary

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2010), 43 pp.

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Shifting Sands: The Impact of Satellite TV on Media in the Arab World

Deborah Horan

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2010), 30 pp.

"The political landscape of individual countries, including their level of internal legitimacy and perceived vulnerability to political extremists, influences the level of media freedom enjoyed in that country at any given moment. In many MENA countries, media freedom is a privilege bestowed by mona ... more

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U.S. Government Funding for Media Development

Laura Mottaz

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2010), 11 pp.

The report analyzes spending on media development by the U.S. Department of State and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which budgeted $140.7 million for media development efforts in FY 2010. This figure represents a dramatic increase when compared with the $68.9 million spent only ... more

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Experimentation and Evolution in Private U.S. Funding of Media Development: A Report

Anne Nelson

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2009), 25 pp.

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Media Literacy: Empowering Youth Worldwide

Paul Mihailidis

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2009), 30 pp.

"Government agencies, NGOs, foundations, and private developers looking to support civic and democratic endeavors in the developing world should be made aware of media literacy as a key educational component for developing stable democratic discourse. This report explores support and development of ... more

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One Size Does Not Fit All: Objectives and Priority Areas for Media Assistance in Different Societies
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Krishna Kumar

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2009), 39 pp.

"The essential thesis of this paper is that the requirements and problems of the media sector differ substantially from country to country according to its political, social and economic conditions: in authoritarian states the scope and intensity of media assistance is quite limited, whereas democra ... more

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Soft Censorship: How Governments Around the Globe Use Money to Manipulate the Media

Don Podesta

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2009), 29 pp.

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Print and Broadcast Media Freedom: Disparities and Opening

Karin Deutsch Karlekar

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2009), 27 pp.

"Using historical data from Freedom House's Freedom of the Press index this report assesses regional trends regarding differing levels of print and broadcast media freedom. While an initial set of data covering 1980-88 shows a clear pattern of print media ranked as freer than broadcast media in ever ... more

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Media Literacy: Understanding the News

Susan D. Moeller

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2009), 28 pp.

"Media literacy training is a tool the development sector can use to educate citizens and other stakeholders to better understand the role of information in a democracy and pressure governments to be accountable and to root out corruption. A media literate citizenry is essential to building and sust ... more

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Independent Media in Exile
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Broadcasting in UN Blue: The Unexamined Past and Uncertain Future of Peacekeeping Radio
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One Size Does Not Fit All: Objectives and Priority Areas for Media Assistance in Different Societies
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