19th November 2014 / By Ellen P. Goodman Professor Ellen P. Goodman is a Professor of Law at Rutgers University and Co-Director of the Rutgers Institute for Information Policy & Law. Her research interests include media policy, spectrum policy, free speech, and the use of information as a policy tool. Here she argues that existing media…
18th November 2014 / By Peter Barron & Simon Morrison In this latest post in our series on the role of digital intermediaries and media plurality, Peter Barron, Google’s head of communications for Europe, Middle East and Africa, and his colleague Simon Morrison, Public Policy Manager, argue that the Internet and digital technologies have only…
15th November 2014 / By Natali Helberger This post originally appeared on the LSE Media Policy Project blog Professor Natali Helberger is professor of Information Law at the University of Amsterdam’s (UvA), Institute for Information Law (IViR). Here she highlights the need for the plurality debate to focus on user demand and consumption, in particular defining…
Recently has been published a new issue on digital media pluralism of the political agenda in Chile. For more information, please see: http://www.caip.cl. Title and information of Spanish edition: Pluralismo en la agenda política de los medios digitales escritos en Chile: apuntes de investigación En el documento se presentan parte de los avances de investigación…
12th October 2014 / By Turkish Media Wach Freedom and pluralism of the media are key issues potential candidate states are being asked to take into account in order to be a part of the European Union, Maja Kocijancic, a spokesperson for the European Commission, said when asked to evaluate an expanding media accreditation ban…
8th November 2014 / By La semana pasada se hizo público el informe correspondiente al Reino Unido de las pruebas piloto del Monitor del Pluralismo de los Medios, promovido por la Comisión Europea y que coordina el Centro para el Pluralismo y la Libertad de los Medios (CMPMF), dependiente del Instituto Universitario Europeo de Florencia.…
Digital intermediaries and the public interest standard in algorithm governance 7th November 2014 / byPhilip Napoli Philip Napoli is Professor of Journalism & Media Studies in the School of Communication & Information at Rutgers University, where his research focuses on media institutions and policy. He has provided testimony on media policy issues to the U.S. Senate,…
5th November 2014 / By Reporters without Borders Freedom of information has made important progress in Brazil during the past 12 years under President Lula da Silva and (since 2011) his successor Dilma Rousseff, who was reelected on 26 October, winning a fourth consecutive term for the Workers’ Party (PT), but much remains to be…
5th November 2014 / By John Cordina The government’s manipulation of public broadcasting in the 1980s is largely at the root of the present weaknesses in Malta’s broadcasting sector, according to a report published by the Today Public Policy Institute today. The twelfth report published by the think-tank since its inception in 2008 is called…
5 November 2014 / By Robin Foster Robin Foster is an adviser on strategy, policy and regulation in the media and communications sectors and a founding member of Communications Chambers. He previously held strategy and board level posts at Ofcom, Independent Television Commission, and the BBC and has provided senior level advice to leading organisations including…
4th November 2014 / By /www.teinteresa.es La denuncia del aumento de la concentración de la propiedad de los medios europeos en manos de unos pocos grupos de comunicación es este año el objetivo central de la jornada europea ‘En pie por el periodismo’, que ha convocado para este jueves la Federación Europea de Periodistas (FEP). En…
3 November 2014 / By Adelina Marini, Zagreb EU can and should have a bigger role in supporting media freedom and pluralism in the EU and beyond. This is how begins the report of the high level group on media pluralism and freedom, established by the former European commissioner for the digital agenda and media, Neelie…
Observatory of Media Pluralism 