This paper offers examples of soft censorship in 30 countries and summarises in-depth soft censorship reports on four countries - Hungary, Malaysia, Mexico, and Serbia. Executive summary Soft Censorship is growing alarmingly as a global phenomenon. Official “soft censorship” (or “indirect government censorship”) describes an array of official actions intended to influence media output short...

Australia's federal, state and local governments spent just over $7 billion on cultural activities during 2012-13, according to these estimates of funding for arts and cultural activities by the three levels of government.

In the online age, every national broadcaster is an international broadcaster. So it’s strange to find that the government wants to restrict the ABC’s focus DESPITE what the treasurer and the foreign affairs minister might have tried to do on budget night, every national broadcaster has to think of itself as an international broadcaster. For...

In South Africa, access to information remains unequal and often hampered by language barriers, poor infrastructure and endemic poverty, particularly among members of rural and peri-urban communities. The government recognises the potential of media and information and communication technology (ICT) to promote socio-economic development and social cohesion. In this paper we discuss the findings of...

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