Media Barometer reports for Africa, Asia and Europe (Friedrich Ebert Stiftung)

by mediapolicy.org on 2013/05/15

Tags: Africa, Algeria, Angola, Asia, Benin, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chad, DRC, ethiopia, Europe, fesmedia, Freedom of Expression, ghana, Guinea, Human rights, India, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Media Landscapes, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, policy, Press freedom, Research, senegal, South Africa, Swaziland, tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe

German Foundation Friedrich Ebert Stiftung has regularly conducted one of the widest assessments of African media environments (and now Asia and Europe), using their Barometer methodology:

Every two to three years a panel of 10 to 12 local experts, consisting of … Read more

Somalia Conference: promises of action on media freedom, safety of journalists

by Sameer Padania on 2013/05/08

Tags: Africa, Horn of Africa, impunity, journalists safety, Media Law, politics, Press freedom, report, Somalia, UK

“We agreed on the important role a free and independent media should play in Somalia, and welcomed the Federal Government’s commitment to investigate and prosecute those responsible for the killing of journalists, and to promote press freedom.” (Somalia … Read more

What does Wikileaks tell us about the future of media?

by Guest Post on 2013/05/07

Tags: book, Freedom of Expression, Investigative journalism, Research, wikileaks

This is a guest post by Arne Hintz.

Through its mega-releases of secret documents in 2010 – including the Afghan and Iraq war diaries, and 250,000 US diplomatic cables – WikiLeaks has sparked fierce international debate. While the media have since … Read more

Doha Centre report analyses Gulf media landscape

by mediapolicy.org on 2013/05/02

Tags: Bahrain, comparative research, Defamation, Gulf, Gulf Cooperation Council, journalism, Kuwait, lese-majeste, libel, media freedom, Media Law, media policy, media regulation, MENA, middle east, Oman, Press freedom, Qatar, report, saudi arabia, UK, United Arab Emirates

The Doha Centre for Media Freedom has released new analysis – in Arabic and English – of the media policy and regulation landscape in six countries in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC): Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait and … Read more

The mobile web and press freedom

by Sameer Padania on 2013/04/24

Tags: Burma, Citizen Media, digital divide, Human rights, ICTs, leapfrogging, Media Consumption, mobiles, myanmar, telecoms

Last month, the Global Network Initiative (GNI) - a multi-stakeholder coalition of ICT companies, civil society organisations, investors and academics - signed a cooperation agreement with another body called Industry Dialogue, or, to give it its full name, Telecommunications Industry Dialogue on Freedom of Expression … Read more