[FoME] Wtrlt: CIMA Report Release - Evaluating the Evaluators: Media Freedom Indexes and What They Measure

[Sofie Jannusch]

A. Sofie Jannusch
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CIMA is pleased to release a new report, Evaluating the Evaluators:
Media Freedom Indexes and What They Measure (
http://cima.ned.org/reports/evaluating-the-evaluators-media-freedom-indexes-and-what-they-measure.html#more-1979
), in cooperation with the Center for Global Communication Studies at
the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication. All
over the world, studies that rank countries by media freedom figure
prominently in civil liberties debates, aid programming, foreign policy
decisions, and academic research. Evaluating the Evaluators: Media
Freedom Indexes and What They Measure examines the strengths and
shortcomings of existing media freedom indexes and offers
recommendations to improve them. In view of the breadth and depth of
these studies, the report recommends that organizations that evaluate
press freedom continue to refine their methodology by increasing
technical sophistication, cultural neutrality, and transparency and that
they incorporate digital media into their evaluations. The report, by
John Burgess, a former Washington Post reporter and editor who
specializes in international affairs and technology, is based on a
collection of academic papers on this subject submitted to the Annenberg
School for Communication.
To request a hard copy of the report, please contact CIMA at
CIMA at ned.org or call (202) 378-9532.

Evaluating the Evaluators: Media Freedom Indexes and What They Measure
(
http://cima.ned.org/reports/evaluating-the-evaluators-media-freedom-indexes-and-what-they-measure.html#more-1979
) and a short summary of the report are available for download, along
with previous CIMA reports and videos of CIMA discussions and events, at
http://cima.ned.org. Also on the website is a comprehensive
bibliographic database of media assistance resources (
http://geniehost25.inmagic.com/dbtw-wpd/searchMediaBib.html ) with
information on more than 800 reports, articles, books, and manuals
related to the media assistance field. We welcome suggestions of new
resources for this bibliographic database.
For more information on the Center for International Media Assistance,
please explore our website at http://cima.ned.org, or contact us at
CIMA at ned.org. 
Sincerely,
Marguerite Sullivan 
Senior Director
Center for International Media Assistance
National Endowment for Democracy 
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