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CMDS Designs Online Course on Disinformation for GLOBSEC

March 20, 2018
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CMDS has been commissioned by GLOBSEC, an independent, non-partisan, non-governmental organisation in Slovakia that conducts research activities and connects key experts on foreign and security policy, to develop a free online course on media and disinformation. The course is the fiirst online course on disinformation and media literacy in the region.

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CMDS Hired by MDIF to Write Media Case Studies

March 13, 2018
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Publications - Reports

The Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF) commissioned CMDS to write a series of media case studies for a package of media business guides that they are publishing, targeted mostly at their investees, which include media outlets in over 70 countries all over the world. The first two case studies on implementing paywalls were written by Marius Dragomir, Dumitrita Holdis and Ian M. Cook, and they are already available online at this link or as a pdf below.

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Dragomir Writes About the Perils of Public Media Funding for Project Syndicate

March 12, 2018
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Marius Dragomir, director of the Center for Media, Data and Society has recently authored a piece for Project Syndicate, giving an overview of alarming trends we can witness in many countries about the myriad ways state exerts control over public media. "In many media markets around the world", Dragomir writes, "publicly-financed news organizations are little more than government mouthpieces.

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Phil Napoli Joins Media Influence Matrix Project

March 7, 2018
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MIM News

Philip M. Napoli, the James R. Shepley Professor of the Sanford School of Public Policy and a Faculty Affiliate with the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy, has joined the Media Influence Matrix as an advisory board member on media management and economics. Professor Napoli also serves as a Docent at the University of Helsinki.

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Dragomir on Recent Attacks to the Independence of Public Broadcasting in Austria

March 6, 2018
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In his new piece for MediaPowerMonitor, CMDS director Marius Dragomir reports on how politicians clash with journalists in the public service media in Austria. As Dragomir writes, "according to local media experts and academics, it’s hard to envision the attacks on ORF turning into blatant censorship, as it could in some eastern European countries like Hungary and Poland.

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