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In the age of blogs, social media and all sorts of information technology innovations, some governments still think they can just burn thousands of newspaper and magazine issues to stop a publication. Reporter Rafael Marquis de Morais, who usually publishes the results of his investigations in his blog, explains the situation in Angola in the…
Turkey finds itself amidst a growing sex tape scandal. It has led to 10 resignations within the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), the nationalist opposition party. Parliament head Mehmet Ali Şahin has argued that the scandal targets no individual political party and threatens the country’s entire political system. However, the allegations center on the sexual activity…
(Editor’s note: this post is on behalf of the Open Government Partnership) In response to vendor questions on the Open Government website RFP, OGP is posting responses below to aid vendors in the development of their proposals. Regarding “core site content will be translated into key languages (English, French, Spanish, Portuguese) ahead of time.”: is…
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,…
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