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Measuring the Audience: Why it Matters to Independent News Media and How it Can Contribute to Media Development

Michelle J. Foster

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2014), 21 pp.

"Independent news media, which often operate on the fringes of media markets, risk being left out completely if they are not participating whole-heartedly, and with solid knowledge and support, in these emerging arenas. They must embrace audience research as the foundation of both their business dev ... 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 ... 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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The New Gatekeepers: Controlling Information in the Internet Age

Bill Ristow

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2013), 54 pp.

"Internet companies have become the new gatekeepers of information–and their data-parsing algorithms the twenty-first century equivalent of the stereotypical editor with the green eyeshade who filtered the news before passing it along to readers .. As they have expanded globally, these pioneering ... more

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Global Investigative Journalism: Strategies for Support
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David E. Kaplan

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA), 2nd ed. (2013), 61 pp.

"Global and regional networks of investigative journalists, backed by donors and fueled by globalization and an explosion in data and communications technology, are growing increasingly effective and sophisticated. Journalists are linking up as never before to collaborate on stories involving intern ... more

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A Clash of Cultures: Hate Speech, Taboos, Blasphemy, and the Role of News Media

Jane Sasseen

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2013), 40 pp.

"The ability of individuals to openly speak their minds is a core principle not only of American journalism, but American democracy. Even when speech is insulting or disrespectful to others-speech that might run afoul of hate speech laws throughout Western Europe or be banned outright in much of the ... more

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Is There a Link Between Digital Media and Good Governance? What the Academics Say

Mary Myers

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2013), 38 pp.

"From this short survey of some key thinkers, can we conclude that there is a causal link between digital media and good governance? The sum of the arguments and cases presented here do not point to a causal link, but they certainly show that digital technology is shaping social movements and politi ... more

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Media Literacy 2.0: A Sampling of Programs Around the World

John Burgess

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2013), 10 pp.

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Applying Standards: Media Owners and Journalism Ethics

Eugene L. Meyer

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2013), 41 pp.

"While several codes in these countries [where news media are considered less free] call for media owners to place responsibility for content above their commercial interests, the reality is that when promulgated by governments they can threaten rather than enhance freedom of the press. When volunta ... more

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South Africa’s Media 20 Years After Apartheid

Libby Lloyd

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2013), 54 pp.

"South Africa’s news media has become, in the post-1994 democratic era, among the most concentrated in the world, affecting the quality of its content and the sales of its newspapers. A significant decrease in international development support, and post-1994 changes to the nature of that support, ... more

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U.S. Government Funding for Media: Trends and Strategies

Peter Cary, Rosemary D'Amour

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2013), 46 pp.

"U.S. government support for international media development is declining. Spending by the Department of State and USAID for media freedom and freedom of information programs has dropped 43.5 percent in the past five years–from $135 million in Fiscal Year 2008 to approximately $76.3 million in FY ... more

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Breathing Life Into Freedom of Information Laws: The Challenges of Implementation in the Democratizing World

Craig L. LaMay, Robert J. Freeman, Richard N. Winfield

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2013), 56 pp.

"This report is intended to be a practical, useful guide for stakeholders in national and local governments, the media, civil society, and business to making freedom of information laws work. The authors’ particular emphasis is on the role public officials and journalists must play in effectively ... more

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The Long Shadow of Chinese Censorship: How the Communist Party’s Media Restrictions Affect News Outlets Around the World

Sarah Cook

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2013), 67 pp.

"This report focuses on six types of media outlets based outside mainland China that together reach news consumers in dozens of countries: major international media; local outlets in Asia, Africa, and Latin America; mainstream media in Hong Kong and Taiwan; exile Chinese outlets providing uncensored ... more

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CCTV’s International Expansion: China’s Grand Strategy for Media?

Anne Nelson

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2013), 37 pp.

"China Central Television has come a long way since its founding as a domestic party propaganda outlet in 1958. The domestic service has been supplemented by an international service, boasting three major global offices in Beijing, Washington, and Nairobi, and more than 70 additional international b ... more

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You Say You Want a Revolution... Then What? The Challenges of Media Training in Post-Qaddafi Libya

Carolyn Robinson

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2013), 28 pp.

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Profiles in Blogging: How Bloggers Around the World Practice Their Craft

Christopher Connell

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2013), 30 pp.

"Examines the impact and reach not only of well-known bloggers such as Cuba’s Yoani Sánchez but also the independent Saudi journalist Ahmed Al Omran, who started writing the Saudi Jeans blog as a pharmacy student to improve his English skills and combat stereotypes about his country; Atiaf Alwazi ... more

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Is There a Link Between Media and Good Governance? What the Academics Say

Mary Myers

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2012), 45 pp.

"From this short survey of some key thinkers, can we conclude that there is a causal link between media and good governance? Does the existence of a free media increase accountability and reduce corruption? Do media influence society in positive ways and liberate the individual? As one would expect, ... more

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Dangerous Work: Violence Against Mexico’s Journalists and Lessons from Colombia

Douglas Farah

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2012), 32 pp.

"Turning the tide on the killing of journalists involves several steps, but primarily it is a matter of having the political will to acknowledge the issue as important and ending the impunity for those responsible for the violence. These steps include: following through on making attacks on the medi ... more

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An Explosion of News: The State of Media in Afghanistan

Peter Cary

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2012), 56 pp.

"The exponential media growth in Afghanistan over the last decade is due to the enthusiasm of Afghan entrepreneurs and to support from the United States and other nations, states this report. According to the executive summary "support from the United States, the biggest donor, has waxed and waned. ... more

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Digital Media in the Arab World: One Year After the Revolutions

Jeffrey Ghannam

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2012), 31 pp.

"Following the revolutions, the battle for the Arab blogosphere has turned from being a competition over accessing the Internet and circumventing government controls to a cyberwar for the predominant narrative through Facebook, Twitter, and traditional media [...] Social media is reinvigorating trad ... more

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