27 January 2015 / By Sadaf Aman India has not been kind to people who have taken the path less travelled — be it MF Hussain or Salman Rushdie and more recently Perumal Murugan. Even while we have social media that has boosted freedom of expression and creativity, there is a rider in the form…
25 January 2015 / By Naomi Sakr In a classic essay in the Journal of Democracy in 2002, “The End of the Transition Paradigm,” democratization analyst Thomas Carothers questioned the assumption that elections are the be-all and end-all of democracy. His argument seems especially apt in Egypt’s case. One mistake, according to Carothers, is to believe…
24 January 2015 / By Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom During 2014, the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom (CMPF) carried out a pilot-test implementation of an updated and streamlined version of the Media Pluralism Monitor (MPM) developed in 2009 by a consortium led by the University of Leuven. The implementation was conducted in nine EU Member…
21 January 2015 / By Jaume Guillamet. El Diario.es El cumplimiento de los principios de neutralidad, independencia y pluralismo es lo que justifica la existencia de los medios públicos, ahora en horas bajas. Ante este 2015 de múltiples elecciones que ponen a prueba la confianza de los ciudadanos Las convocatorias electorales de 2015 -todas, menos…
21 January 2015 / By Stephen Dunne In December 2014, Ireland’s Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources published draft guidelines on media mergers and invited comments until 22 January. Stephen Dunne, journalist and PhD candidate at Dublin City University, looks at the guidelines and at the implications of this move. Democratic governments are wary…
19 January 2015 / By Reporters Without Reporters Without Borders condemns attacks on media pluralism during the campaign for tomorrow’s presidential election in Zambia due to the ruling Patriotic Front’s harassment and threats against several news outlets. Media coverage has also been very partisan during the campaign, with the main opposition party, the United Party…
15 January 2015 / By Emnre Demir The European Parliament on Thursday condemned the Turkish government’s attempt to silence critical media by launching raids on media institutions and detaining journalists on Dec.14, saying the steps taken by the Turkish government against the media raises questions about the rule of law and freedom of the media…
14 January 2015 / By Nicolas Del Valle & Renato Garin. diario El Mostrador, Chile La posibilidad de ejercer el periodismo profesional sin ser un medio impreso es hoy más grande que nunca. El aumento de los medios digitales y blogs, así como la reproducción de los grandes diarios en versiones “electrónicas”, es un síntoma…
17 January 2015 / By Damian Tambini LSE Media Policy Project director How might Facebook, Google and other intermediaries influence the outcome of the 2015 UK election? Are they displacing newspapers and TV as kingmakers? As Robin Foster noted, and data from the Oxford Reuters Institute illustrates, there is ample evidence that social media are rapidly rising…
20 January 2015 / By El Ciudadano, Chile Colegio de Periodistas junto a diversas personalidades públicas Con frases como “no más invisibles”, “voz para los que no tienen voz” y “más diversidad”, dirigentes de organizaciones sociales, parlamentarios y reconocidas figuras de la prensa y la televisión adhirieron mediante un video a la campaña que busca…
13th January, 2015/ By Ghana Web Nana Akufo-Addo, the presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has encouraged the media to intensify their reportage on corruption and expose officials to help the country reduce the canker to its barest minimum. According to Akufo-Addo, the media should support and collaborate with the party to wage…
12th January, 2015 / By Samarika Kumar The laws that could prevent such monopolies are either limited or absent. While walking to work one day, I saw an advertisement for CNBC-TV18 proclaiming, “We have stood for Indian business news. We stand for an India that means business.” With the Reliance takeover and editorial tutoring of…
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