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Journalists and asylum seekers are not the first characters you think about when it comes to schemes to manipulate information in the media, but that can change if you’re in Cameroon. Reporter Asong Ndifor explains in his story “Fake Journalism at Home Helps Cameroonian Asylum-Seekers Abroad,” part of the Corruption and the Media series in…
A recurring narrative in media coverage of the ongoing political turmoil in the Middle East is that corruption has been a major driver of the protests. In the wake of the revolution in Tunisia, one major Western media outlet trotted out the most classic of corruption metaphors, the fish that rots first from the head,…
We’re in the bittersweet position of announcing that we will no longer be accepting expressions of interest for 2011 summer research associate positions (our polite term for internships) here at Global Integrity. We unexpectedly (and happily) have some existing research associates staying through the summer, and are literally out of desks to house anyone beyond…