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Pakistan’s The Centrum Media harnesses social media to give news a human face

Bringing sources directly to the audience, The Centrum Media (TCM) uses the power of videos shared via social media to engage young audiences in politically divided Pakistan, writes Sophie Bennett. The Centrum Media focuses on putting human faces to news stories and providing deeper context around contemporary political issues. It builds credibility by presenting its […]

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How new Latin American voices are breaking the media mold – Part 2: Filling the void

New digital and local media are turning to a journalism of solutions across Latin America, filling the void left by the weakness in the public realm, write Andres Schafer and Nathalie Alvaray in this second part of their deep dive into how journalists and media builders are breaking the mold.   Across Latin America new […]

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Myanmar: Crackdown on journalists and civil society intensifies

The Myanmar junta’s crackdown on independent media and civil society has been intensifying again in recent weeks. On December 14, freelance photojournalist Ko Soe Naing died in military custody after being arrested earlier this month while covering a pro-democracy protest in the country’s capital Yangon. He became the first Burmese journalist known to have died […]

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Letter: IPI concerned over legal harassment of newspaper’s managing board

His Excellency Leszek Miller Prime Minister of Poland Chancellery of the Prime Minister Warsaw Poland Vienna, 27 February 2002 Fax: (004822) 621 88 27 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists, would like to bring to your attention the charges brought against three members of […]

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