Daily Archives: July 5, 2011

Signs of Trouble: Egypt’s Media Crackdown Before the Revolution

Before 2011 became a historic year in Egypt, there was 2010. That year Mubarak’s regime fiercely cracked down on media to stop an intense debate about the parliamentary elections fraud and Mubarak’s plans to have his son Gamal eventually succeed him. Egyptian reporter Mervat Diab explains what took place before the revolution in his story…

Field Contributors Survey: the Indaba Experience

The recent survey of reporters and researchers who contributed to the Global Integrity Report: 2010 contained plenty of positive feedback as well as insightful constructive criticism about the experience of working with Global Integrity. We summarized that feedback in a recent blog post. As promised, we wanted to take some extra space to analyze our…