David Anable was president of the International Center for Journalists from 1997 to 2004 and is a former managing editor of the Christian Science Monitor. He writes columns for a group of newspapers in Virginia, as well as occasional pieces for the Monitor, where he was a reporter, bureau chief, foreign editor, and managing editor, between 1965 and 1988. Anable is also a former professor at Boston University, where he was chairman of its School of Journalism. At the Shorenstein Center, he focused on international media, how a country’s journalism can open the way for democratic reforms and the role of training in promoting such a process.
The Role of Georgia’s Media — and Western Aid — in the Rose Revolution
January 1, 2006
A paper by David Anable, fall 2005 fellow, examines the role of the Georgian media in the country’s Rose Revolution and the impact that Western media development aid played in enabling this to occur. It also looks at what has happened to the country’s media since the revolution, at the U.S. policies underlying the aid
