The 10 January 2014 Washington Post op-ed "Authoritarian Regimes Re-Tool Their Media Control Strategy" by Robert Orttung of George Washington University's Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies and Christopher Walker of NED's International Forum for Democratic Studies is based on the authors' essay "Breaking the News: The Role of State-Run Media," which appears in the January 2014 issue of the Journal of Democracy. For more information on this essay and related events, visit the Forum's website.