"The Mapping Digital Media research confirms that digital television and the internet have had a radical impact on media businesses, journalists, and citizens at large. As might be expected, platforms distributing journalism have proliferated, media companies are revamping their operations, and citizens have access to a cornucopia of news and information sources. Other findings were less foreseeable: digitization has brought no pressure to reform state broadcasters, less than one-third of countries found that digital media have helped to expand the social impact of investigative journalism, and digitization has not significantly affected total news diversity. The Global Findings reveal other common themes across the world: Governments and politicians have too much influence over who owns, operates, and regulates the media. Many media markets are rife with monopolistic, corrupt, or untransparent practices. It’s not clear where many governments and other bodies get their evidence for changes or updates to laws and policies on media and communication. Media and journalism online offer hope of new, independent sources of information, but are also a new battleground for censorship and surveillance. Data about the media worldwide are still uneven, unstandardized, and unreliable, and are often proprietary rather than freely accessible." (Website Open Society Foundations)

"Digitisation has only partly led to major news diversity and quality, says this synopsis of 56 country reports on the digitisation of the media sector in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Oceania. Access to information and dissemination channels improved, but at the same time unethical practices, like lack of verification and plagiarism, became current practice. Citizen journalists have become a new source of information, but in many cases the quality of their stories has come under critical scrutiny. The biggest gain from digitisation is the growing space for minority groups. Digital media and online journalism offer hope of new, independent sources of information, but are also a new battleground for censorship and surveillance. Eight chapters of this report are dedicated to thematic issues like the influence of telecommunication providers on news producers or the role of public media in digitisation, followed by eight chapters summarising the most important regional trends." (CAMECO Update 1-2015)