By: Julia Taleb April 8, 2016 Waging Nonviolence On January 10, the Nusra Front, an al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group in Syria, stormed the...
ON THE MEDIA: Syrian independent media offers bold challenge to extremism
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ON THE MEDIA: Media In The Cross hairs: Militants Continue To Target Journalists In Pakistan
By: Raza Rumi APRIL 7TH, 2016 CIMA Despite the commitments of the Pakistan government to protect journalists, media freedoms remain...
ON THE MEDIA: Shorter isn’t better, photos aren’t always alluring and deep digging pays off, recent report concludes
By Rick Edmonds March 31, 2016 POYNTER Shorter isn’t better, photos aren’t always alluring and deep digging pays off, recent report concludes...
ON THE MEDIA/AFGHANISTAN: Afghan Women’s Radio Returns After Taliban Attack
By: LYNNE O'DONNELL Mar. 8, 2016 AP KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Six months after fleeing a Taliban assault on her city, the owner of an Afghan radio...
ON THE MEDIA: Caught Between The East And West: The “Media War” Intensifies In Serbia And Montenegro
MARCH 10TH, 2016 By: Marija Šajkaš and Milka Tadić Mijović CIMA As EU and U.S. assistance to independent media in Serbia and Montenegro declines,...
ON THE MEDIA: In Burma, A Chance For New Momentum On Media Reform
MARCH 14TH, 2016 By: PAUL ROTHMAN CIMA As Burma’s new National League of Democracy (NLD)-dominated parliament nears the selection of the...
ON THE MEDIA: Here’s How 4 Hyper-Local Newsrooms are Harnessing Video
By: Josh Stearns This post first appeared on Medium. MEDIASHIFT In January, media consultant Mario Garcia wrote that 2016 would be “the year of...
ON THE MEDIA: Every Day Is a Good Day to Hear More Women in the Media
By Farhana Haque Rahman original ROME, Mar 7 2016 (IPS) - On International Women’s Day newspapers and radio shows are filled with women’s voices....
HAITI/ON THE MEDIA: Parting Words From Haiti’s Not-So-Sweet Mickey: Fueling An Uunsupportive Environment For Women In Media
FEBRUARY 29TH, 2016 By: Janelle Nodhturft Williams original Former Haitian President Michel Martelly left office on February 7, 2016, the 30th...
ON THE MEDIA: Can explanatory journalism cure the internet?
Richard Fawal | February 26, 2016 10:30am original This post is part of our project examining the importance of explanatory journalism. The first...
ON THE MEDIA: Explanatory journalism: A tool in the war against polarization and dysfunction
By: Thomas E. Mann | February 29, 2016 10:00am original This post is part of our project examining the importance of explanatory journalism. The...
ON THE MEDIA/AFGHANISTAN: Bringing FRAME BY FRAME Back to Kabul
When I sat down for the 14 hour flight to from New York to Dubai in mid-January, I felt a bit nervous that the only screening that we had planned...