weekly Digital Media Mash Up. Sign up for these and other CIMA mailings and follow CIMA on Facebook and Twitter at www.cima.ned.org/about-cima/follow- cima. CIMA’s core activities complement NED’s he Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) at the role as a supporter of grassroots democracy ini- TNational Endowment for Democracy works to strengthen the support, raise tiatives and address many of the challenges that the visibility, and improve the effectiveness of independent media development have been identified in the field of US-spon- throughout the world. The Center provides information, builds networks, sored development of independent and sus- tainable media. To learn more about CIMA, conducts research, and highlights the indispensable role independent media please visit www.cima.ned.org. play in the creation and development of sustainable democracies. CIMA works to achieve these goals through discussions, in-depth reports,

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Discussions CIMA organizes panel discussions, working groups, and roundtables featuring practitioners and academics to investigate important issues in international media. CIMA held 15 public events in 2011 on topics including “Democ- racy, Dissent, and Digital Media in the Arab World” and “License to Censor: The Use of Media Regulation to Restrict Press Freedom”. All of CIMA’s upcoming and past events can be found with summaries and video and audio recordings at http://cima.ned.org/events. , widow of murdered Wall Street Journal , Daniel Pearl, speaks on a panel Catalyst Activities discussion organized by CIMA on Capitol Hill marking World Press Freedom Day on May 3, 2011. CIMA maintains a comprehensive bib- liographic database of media assistance CIMA Advisory Council resources with more than 1,100 items. Patrick Butler Alex S. Jones Dale Peskin On its website, CIMA has posted country Esther Dyson Shanthi Kalathil Adam Clayton Powell III profiles detailing the status of indepen- Stephen Fuzesi, Jr. Susan King Monroe E. Price dent media in countries around the world and comparing media freedom indexes. William A. Galston Craig LaMay These can be accessed on CIMA’s website Suzanne Garment Caroline Little Kurt Wimmer at www.cima.ned.org. CIMA also gath- Karen Elliott House Richard Lugar Richard Winfield ers articles from numerous news sources Ellen Hume Eric Newton on developments in media and distributes Jerry Hyman William Orme them via a Media News mailing and a

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CIMA Reports CIMA commissions research reports on key topics in media development and also publishes papers summarizing some of its events and working groups. The Center published 14 reports in 2011: • Continental Shift: New Trends in Private U.S. Funding for Media Development • Challenges for Independent Media in a Post-Gaddafi Libya • Media Codes of Ethics: The Difficulty of Defining Standards Torben Brandt of International Media Support is interviewed after the CIMA event on Challenges • The Legal Enabling for Independent Media in a Post-Gaddafi Libya on October 6, 2011, by a journalist from al-Hurra Environment for Independent television. Media in Egypt and Tunisia • News on the Go: How Mobile Devices Are Changing the World’s Information Ecosystem • Matching the Market and the Model: The Business of Independent News Media • Media and the Law: An Overview of Legal Issues and Challenges • Confronting the News: The State of Independent Media in Latin America • Independent Media in Exile • Funding Free Expression: Janis Karklins, assistant director-general of UNESCO's Communication and Information Sector, moderates a session to adopt the Washington Declaration at UNESCO’s 2011 World Perceptions and Reality Press Freedom Day celebration at the National Press Club in Washington on May 3, 2011. in a Changing Landscape • Voices from Villages: World Press Freedom Day 2011 Community Radio in the Developing World 21st Century Media: New Frontiers, New Barriers • Iraq’s News Media After IMA’s major project in 2011 was its role as lead organizer of UNESCO’s World Saddam: Liberation, Repression, CPress Freedom Day conference. The three-day event, which took place at and Future Prospects the and the National Press Club in Washington, DC, was the biggest yet in UNESCO’s 20-year history of celebrating the occasion. The event hosted • Social Media in the Arab 800 registrants from more than 100 countries; featured 104 speakers from 45 World: Leading up to the countries; sponsored 75 fellows from nearly 30 countries; reached nearly 9 Uprisings of 2011 million people through social media; and inspired 500 news articles about the • Caught in the Middle: Central conference. CIMA leveraged its relationship with the State Department, media and Eastern European non-governmental organizations, and private industry to carry out the event, which resulted in the Washington Declaration, a resounding call for Internet and Journalism at a Crossroads media freedom around the world. Key donors for the event included the John S. CIMA’s reports are available for free and James L. Knight Foundation, Omidyar Network, Open Society Foundations, download at www.cima.ned. and Google. org/publications.

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