‘Echoes of Tiananmen’ as China’s censorship conflict spreads
China’s revolt against media controls “has spread to a second newspaper amid mounting public anger over heavy-handed government censorship” after the Beijing News “refused a request from censors to...
View ArticleChina’s liberals test Xi Jinping?
The most notable fact about China’s anti-censorship protest is that it isn’t isolated an isolated incident, says a leading analyst. “On Dec. 26, 38 prominent academics, writers and journalists wrote an...
View ArticleDisappearance in Laos signals authoritarian backlash
“The disappearance nearly one month ago of Sombath Somphone, a United States-trained agriculture specialist who led one of the most successful nonprofit organizations in Laos, has baffled his family...
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Call Ukraine’s bluff: highlight democratic regression
The west should not set aside its values to embrace a Ukraine that looks more likely to become Europe’s next Belarus rather than its next Poland. Viktor Yanukovich, Ukraine’s president, is “flirting”...
View Article‘Moderate’ Muslim Brotherhood? Morsi’s anti-Jewish slurs raise concerns over...
The exposure of virulent anti-Semitic and anti-Western sentiments by Egypt’s President Mohammed Morsi is “raising questions about Mr. Morsi’s efforts to present himself as a force for moderation and...
View ArticleInvestigative reporters – journalism’s ‘special forces’ and democracy’s...
The worldwide practice of investigative reporting has grown dramatically since the fall of communism began in 1989, writes David E. Kaplan, director of the Global Investigative Journalism Network. The...
View ArticleDigital Security and Press Freedom in Latin America
Advances in mobile technology, the expansion of the Internet, and the development of social networks have provided new communication platforms and digital tools for journalists, citizen reporters, and...
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Azerbaijan unrest ‘sends a warning’ to Aliyev
Scores of pro-democracy activists were detained and at least five sentenced to prison after a police crackdown on a peaceful protest in Azerbaijan on Saturday. “Two prominent journalists, Emin Milli...
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Ukrainian conviction for killing journalist not the last word, says...
A Ukrainian court has sentenced former police chief Olexiy Pukach to life imprisonment for murdering journalist Georgy Gongadze (left) in 2000, “a crime which rocked the country,” the BBC reports:...
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Google exposes N Korea’s hidden gulag
“North Korea may be the world’s most shrouded country, but on Tuesday Google Maps lifted the veil just a little, uploading a map of the police state complete with street names in the capital,” The New...
View ArticleTunisia’s transition: compromise beats zero-sum politics
Three years to the day since then-president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali fled the country, Tunisia is faring better than other countries that ousted their leaders in 2011. Tunisia’s politicians have opted...
View ArticleWhy journalists frighten Putin
The Kremlin’s decision to declare him persona non grata is more than an action against a single journalist, says David Satter, an adviser to Radio Liberty and senior fellow of the Hudson Institute....
View ArticleDemocracy in Crisis: Corruption, Media, and Power in Turkey
Turkey’s democracy is in crisis. Shaken by last summer’s protests and a mounting corruption scandal, the government is lashing out at critics. A new report from U.S.-based Freedom House on Monday,...
View ArticleHow the Kremlin shapes media beyond Russia’s borders
Two new reports highlight how Russia has managed to curb independent media not only domestically, but also in former Soviet states, Linda Kinstler writes for the New Republic: “The majority of news...
View ArticleEcuador’s Communications Law: When Censoring a Cartoon Becomes a Presidential...
Since his reelection, President Rafael Correa has used a series of laws and decrees to constrain criticism and dissent. In June 2013, the National Assembly passed a restrictive communications law that...
View ArticleBuying Compliance: Governmental Advertising and Soft Censorship in Mexico
A virtually unregulated system of government advertising has distorted Mexico’s media landscape and corrupted the country’s media profession, according to a new report, Buying Compliance: Governmental...
View ArticleRussia’s media imperialism
The repressive “bloggers law” signed by President Vladimir V. Putin on May 6 says a good deal about the troubling decline of free expression in Russia, according to two leading analysts. This measure...
View ArticleRussia’s international media ‘weaponized’ to poison minds
At a time when Russia’s image in Europe and the U.S. has sunk to extreme lows, the Kremlin has announced dramatic new plans to increase spending on foreign propaganda, according to George Washington...
View ArticleRussia’s ‘new censorship’: How Kremlin and media ended up in bed together
Russia’s “new censorship” is not merely a tool for controlling the media from the outside, but also attacks the not-so-healthy body of the media from the inside, notes Vasily Gatov, a media researcher,...
View ArticleP24′S Hasan Cemal lambasts Turkey’s curbs on media, rule of law
I come from a country where a prime minister declares those who hold different opinions from his own to be traitors, said Hasan Cemal, Founding President of P24, Turkey’s leading independent news...
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