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Watch the Watchdogs
Onora O’Neill (2002) contends that advocates of media freedom have erroneously equated the citizen’s right to information and expression with press freedom. They have claimed for journalists and media...
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African Union Consultation Can Lead to a More Strategic Approach to Media...
An informal expert meeting on media and development hosted by the African Union Commission (AUC) and the European Commission (EC) in Addis Ababa, March 23-25 agreed a range of practical proposals in...
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Do We Trust the Media Enough?
Among the various roles news media play in governance, that of gatekeeper is one of the more problematic. According to Pippa Norris and Sina Odugbemi in Public Sentinel, “as gatekeepers, the news...
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Media Regulation: Who Needs Your Protection?
Freedom of expression and media freedom - most contentious issues not only in autocracies but, seemingly increasingly, also in democracies. It's a fine line between regulating the media and strangling...
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Weekly Wire: the Global Forum
These are some of the views and reports relevant to our readers that caught our attention this week.Freedom HouseReport Finds Governments Restricting Media Freedom Through RegulationA range of...
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Is Media Freedom at the Heart of Media Development?
What’s media assistance about anyway? Actually, there’s not really a straightforward answer to this question. I realized that when I listened to Daniel Kaufmann of the Brookings Institute earlier this...
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Weekly Wire: the Global Forum
These are some of the views and reports relevant to our readers that caught our attention this week.Freedom HouseNations in Transit 2012"Nations in Transit is Freedom House’s comprehensive, comparative...
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The post-2015 Global Goals: Moving from “what” to “how” will rest on more...
In light of the UN summit in New York, BBC Media Action’s Director of Policy and Learning argues for a stronger focus on the provision of information, as well as resources."This Agenda is a plan of...
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Weekly wire: The global forum
These are some of the views and reports relevant to our readers that caught our attention this week.2016 Ibrahim Index of African GovernanceMo Ibrahim Foundation The IIAG provides an annual assessment...
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