News industry turning mobile, US study shows

5 April 2015 / By Euroactive.com SPECIAL REPORT / The news industry is struggling with a shift to mobile, getting scant revenues as more readers turn to smartphones and tablets for information, according to new research published in April. These are among the findings of the latest Pew Research Center’s State of the News Media…

Turkish media, government plagued by hate speech

3 May 2015 / By Today’s Zaman On Tuesday morning, a national newspaper with pro-government values, the Vahdet daily, hit the stands, declaring on its front page that 300 leaders of the outlawed Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) are crypto-Armenians and claimed that they were baptized in churches. The overall accusatory tone of the article is…

Venezuela: peligra pluralismo de medios

24 April 2015 / By Carolina Alcalde. Voz de América La sobreexposición comunicacional del gobierno impide a los ciudadanos tener acceso a mensajes plurales, considerado un pilar de la democracia según expertos Entre 2013 y 2014, el gobierno del presidente Nicolás Maduro transmitió por cadena nacional obligatoria un total de 343 horas en medios radiales…

PSOE denuncia ante la Junta Electoral a RTVCM por “falta de pluralismo informativo” en el programa del mediodía

19 April 2015 / By Europa Press El PSOE de Castilla-La Mancha ha presentado una denuncia ante la Junta Electoral regional contra el director general del Ente Público Radio-televisión Castilla La Mancha (RTVCM), Ignacio Villa, por “la falta de pluralismo, igualdad, proporcionalidad y neutralidad informativa de los servicios informativos de la cadena pública”, en concreto,…

European spectrum policy needs to sustain job growth, media pluralism and quality content

15 mayo 2015 / By European Federation of Journalist The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), together with organisations representing media workers and employers in the creative and cultural industry have called on European policy makers to ensure job growth, media diversity and quality content in the response to the European Commission’s consultation on spectrum policy.…