IREX

IREX, the International Research and Exchanges  Board, is a nonprofit organization that aims to improve the quality of education, strengthen independent media, and foster pluralistic civil society development. IREX produces the Media Sustainability Index.

IREX’s Media Sustainability Index (MSI) provides in-depth analysis of the conditions for independent media in 76 countries across Africa, Europe, Eurasia and the Middle East. Since the Eurasian MSI was conceived in 2000, in cooperation with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the MSI has evolved into an important benchmark study to assess how media systems change over time and across borders. Since 2006, IREX has also produced an MSI for the Middle East and North Africa, with support from USAID, the US Department of State’s Middle East Policy Initiative and UNESCO. In 2007, IREX launched the Africa MSI with funding from the Canadian International Development Agency, the World Bank Institute and USAID.