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Continental Shift: New Trends in Private U.S. Funding for Media Development
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2011), 26 pp.
"This work is an update of the October 2009 CIMA report, Experimentation and Evolution in Private U.S. Funding of Media Development by the same author. The field of private sector funding of independent media abroad has continued to undergo a massive upheaval over the past two years. Both the 2008 r
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Funding Free Expression: Perceptions and Reality in a Changing Landscape
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
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Matching the Market and the Model: The Business of Independent News Media
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
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Independent Media in Exile
Deep Insights
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
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The Pentagon, Information Operations, and International Media Development
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2010), 43 pp.
Evaluating the Evaluators: Media Freedom Indexes and What They Measure
Washington, DC; Philadelphia: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA); Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) (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
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Libel Tourism: Silencing the Press Through Transnational Legal Threats
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.
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U.S. Government Funding for Media Development
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
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Shifting Sands: The Impact of Satellite TV on Media in the Arab World
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
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U.S. Universities and Media Development
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
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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
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
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Covering Corruption: The Difficulties of Trying to Make a Difference
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2010), 37 pp.
Broadcasting in UN Blue: The Unexamined Past and Uncertain Future of Peacekeeping Radio
Deep Insights
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
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Cash for Coverage: Bribery of Journalists Around the World
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
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Media Literacy: Understanding the News
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
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Media Literacy: Empowering Youth Worldwide
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
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Media Literacy: Citizen Journalists
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2009), 26 pp.
"In environments where poor infrastructure, minimal access to technology, and small-scale economies impede the creation or sustainability of mainstream independent media, and in countries where repressive governments limit the ability of professional journalists to operate freely, citizen journalist
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One Size Does Not Fit All: Objectives and Priority Areas for Media Assistance in Different Societies
Deep Insights
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
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Digital Media in Conflict-Prone Societies
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2009), 38 pp.
"Much violent conflict today takes place in or near civilian populations with access to global information networks, so the information gathered by various parties to conflict may potentially be distributed in real time around the globe. The ability to communicate, and to produce and receive diverse
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Funding for Media Development by Major Donors Outside the United States
Deep Insights
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2009), 64 pp.
"This publication describes the main media assistance funders outside the USA in an alphabetical fashion from 'Arab States' to 'United Kingdom', complemented by data on the European Commission (EC), UNESCO and UNDP. The EC is likely to be the biggest single funder of media development projects besid
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