FOTP 2013 Full Report

Freedom of the Press ContributorsAnalysts:Ben Akoh is an expert on media and technology policy. He conducts research and undertakescapacity-building initiatives on internet public policy in Africa and globally, and is involved invarious capacities in national and regional internet-governance processes. He is an instructor atthe University of Manitoba, where his research explores the nexus of education, culture, and theinternet. Akoh also has been involved in various media-development initiatives in Africa. He hasworked with the Soros Foundation’s Open Society Initiative for West Africa, the UN EconomicCommission for Africa, the International Institute for Sustainable Development, and in theprivate sector. He served as a West Africa analyst for Freedom of the Press.Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler is a research fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI), whereshe heads projects on media reform and open government. She holds an LLB and PhD from thelaw faculty at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and spent a postdoctoral year at the John F.Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. During 2011, Altshuler headed theresearch and development department of the Second Authority for Radio and Television, theIsraeli media regulator. Altshuler’s main academic interests are media and telecommunicationsregulation, and she has published and edited numerous articles, policy papers, and books onmatters of media and new media policy. She served as a Middle East and North Africa analystfor Freedom of the Press.Rozina Ali is a senior editor at the Cairo Review of Global Affairs, based in Egypt, and waspreviously an editor at the Economist Intelligence Unit. She received her master’s degree ininternational affairs from Columbia University, where she focused on Middle East studies, andher bachelor’s from Swarthmore College. She served as a Middle East and North Africa analystfor Freedom of the Press.Karen Attiah is a freelance journalist and has written for the Associated Press, the HuffingtonPost, and other outlets. She received her master’s degree in international affairs from ColumbiaUniversity’s School of International and Public Affairs, concentrating in human rights andinternational media. In 2008 Attiah was a Fulbright Scholar to Ghana, where she studied the roleof citizen participation in call-in radio shows during the Ghanaian elections, and has also studiedthe role of social media within African media organizations. She graduated from NorthwesternUniversity with a bachelor’s degree in communication studies and African studies. She served asa sub-Saharan Africa analyst for Freedom of the Press.Dawood Azami is a journalist who has worked for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)World Service in London for 14 years. He also worked as the BBC World Service bureau chiefand editor in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2010 and 2011. Azami is a visiting lecturer at the Universityof Westminster, London, and specializes in international relations, conflict studies, and mediaand culture. He was selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2011,and in 2009 was the youngest person ever to win the BBC’s Global Reith Award for OutstandingContribution. He served as a South Asia analyst for Freedom of the Press.2