30th November 2014 / By Telam Politica Lo indicó el jefe de Gabinete y señaló, además, que “no hay ninguna posibilidad de desarrollar la creatividad y el talento artístico si no hay un rol activo del Estado para promover este diseño y ejecución de las políticas públicas”. Al encabezar la apertura del 4to. Encuentro de…
26th November 2014 / By Voice of America The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has condemned as “drastic and disproportionate” an injunction by a court in Kazakhstan effectively shutting down a weekly magazine. The OSCE said Wednesday that the Almaty district court’s order to stop the distribution and publication of the independent magazine…
25th November 2014 / By Prince Obimpeh (Peace fm Online) A Ghanaian has been elected to serve as rapporteur on the Bureau of the Intergovernmental Council of the International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC at the Headquarters of UNESCO in Paris, France on. Mrs. Diana Heymann-Adu who was a Senior Lecturer at the…
25th November 2014 / By Marcus Ryder Marcus Ryder is the Chair of the Royal Television Society Diversity Committee, and Head of Current Affairs BBC Scotland. He recently organised the first political hustings on media diversity between the three main Westminster political parties on how each Party would aim to increase diversity if they won the…
25th November 2014 / By Robert G. Picard Robert G. Picard is Director of Research at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford, a research fellow at Green Templeton College (Oxford), and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Here he argues that digital intermediaries should not be ignored in the…
23th November 2014 / By Vilma Tapia Anaya. La Razón (Edición Impresa) Hay necesidad de lograr un pluralismo lingüístico en los medios de comunica- ción. Incorporar paulatina y progresivamente las lenguas y los idiomas originarios en dichos medios. La interculturalidad es un diálogo entre culturas diferentes. El Instituto Internacional para la Democracia y Asistencia Electoral (IDEA Internacional),…
22th November 2014 / By Ghana High Commission, Windhoek, Namibia Former President John Agyekum Kufuor was last week in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital participating in activities marking the 20th anniversary of the Governing Council of Interpeace, based in Geneva, Switzerland, of which he has been chairman for the past five years. The Ghanaian former President took…
21th November 2014 / By AllAfrica In respect to the passing of two notable Liberian broadcast journalists, the Free Press Movement (FPM), a liberal media policy think-tank within the Press Union of Liberia has announced the suspension of its campaign to democratically remove Kamara Abdullai Kamara as President of the Journalists’ Union for ‘subjecting’ the…
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…
Observatory of Media Pluralism 