September 1, 2017 / By El Nacional Reporteros Sin Fronteras (RSF) resumió hoy la situación de la libertad de prensa en América Latina y mostró una especial preocupación por lo que se vive en México y en Venezuela. En una rueda de prensa en Bogotá, el director del despacho en América Latina de RSF, Emmanuel…
September 1, 2017/ By El Periódico Reporteros Sin Fronteras (RSF) mostró hoy preocupación por la situación de la libertad de prensa en América Latina, y en especial por los casos de México y en Venezuela. El director para América Latina de RSF, Emmanuel Colombié, se refirió a México, donde tras el asesinato del periodista Javier…
August 27, 2017/ By El Universal La libertad de expresión es un derecho universal del cual todos gozamos y que incluye el derecho a mantener una opinión sin interferencia, así como la libertad para buscar, recibir y difundir información e ideas mediante cualquier medio de comunicación, tal como lo establece la Declaración Universal de los…
August 26, 2017/ By Mediamax “There is every reason to believe that Mehman Aliyev’s detention and arrest is politically motivated and I respectfully call upon the Azerbaijani authorities to immediately and unconditionally release the journalist and guarantee that his fundamental freedoms are not violated further,” Desir said. He noted that there is no need to…
June 2, 2017/ By New Europe Media plurality in Europe is at risk, according to the latest Media Pluralism Monitor (MPM) report by The Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom’s (CMPF). The analysis assessed risks to media plurality in the EU, Turkey and Montenegro using data gathered over the year of 2016. Cyprus, Italy and Norway were…
May 31, 2017 / By Euobserver The risk to free press posed by Czech oligarch Andrej Babis is not serious enough to warrant EU intervention, the European Commission said on Tuesday (30 May). Giuseppe Abbamonte, director of the media and data directorate at the EU commission, told MEPs in the civil liberties committee that “there…
May 31, 2017/ By La Vanguardia La presidenta del Consejo Audiovisual de Andalucía (CAA), Emelina Fernández, ha defendido la necesidad de reforzar las acciones de cooperación entre la autoridad audiovisual estatal y las autonómicas para una eficaz defensa del pluralismo político y la lucha contra la violencia de género en los medios públicos. En la…
May 31, 2017 / By Radio Praha El magnate Andrej Babiš, el segundo hombre más rico de Chequia, llegó a la política y poco tiempo después compró MAFRA, un grupo mediático en el que se encuentran los dos periódicos más influyentes, Lidové Noviny y Mladá Fronta Dnes. Pero eso no fue todo. También compró Radio…
May 23, 2017/ By European Western Balkans Similar to democratisation itself in the region, the transformation of the media landscape in the Western Balkans (WB) is an open-ended process that can never be fully consolidated, a process that has been marked by significant progress, but also by patterns of regression. The Balkans in Europe Policy…
April 18, 2017/ By Variety Italian media regulator Agcom has ruled that French media conglomerate Vivendi’s expansion into Italy where it has built large stakes in both Telecom Italia and broadcaster Mediaset violates the country’s anti-trust laws and given Vivendi one year to reduce its stake in one of the two companies. The decision marks…
April 13, 2017/ By Mediapool The growing presence of political and corporate propaganda in Bulgaria’s media is the most obvious indicator of the ongoing transformation in media ownership in the country. The market is increasingly occupied by the so-called “quasi-media”, pro-government propaganda agents and publications that carry out smear campaigns against politicians, journalists, and newspapers…
April 10, 2017/ By LSE Norway has a multi-party parliamentary system with a minority government coalition currently based on the Conservative Party and the populist Progress Party. The appointment of independent committees to gather information, analyze current challenges and propose new policy instruments is a stable feature of the political system. The ensuing reports are…
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