January 7, 2016 / By Ariel Rieda, Chequeado Contrariamente a lo afirmado por el flamante ministro de Comunicaciones, los principales actores mediáticos controlan una gran proporción de mercado y de audiencias, un fenómeno que se repite en toda la región latinoamericana. “La Argentina no tiene medios concentrados, monopolio”, declarósemanas atrás Oscar Aguad, ministro de Comunicaciones…
4 December 2015 / By Carla Moscoso, El Mostrador En lo que va del año, la cobertura de los medios respecto del quehacer político y la transparencia de la función pública ha reinstalado el viejo debate en torno al rol de los medios nacionales en la configuración del debate público. Y aunque el desfase comunicacional…
3 December 2015 / By Dunja Mijatović, Index on Cersorship Propaganda, counterpropaganda and information wars are all terms that, unfortunately, have become part of our daily discourse. As the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Representative on Freedom of the Media, I have raised the issue of propaganda emanating from the conflict in and…
27 November 2015 / By Facundo Franco, La Diaria Según estudio, libertad de expresión se ejerce correctamente en Uruguay y la ley de medios constituiría una mejora. Todas las instituciones educativas terciarias que ofrecen carreras de comunicación en Uruguay y la UNESCO presentarán hoy un informe en el que se analizan varios indicadores de desarrollo…
25 November 2015 / By Silvia Higuera, Journalism in the Americas Blog At a conference in Bogotá, Colombia, the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), Edison Lanza, talked with representatives of various international organizations concerned with media concentration in the Americas. The discussion, held during the international…
25 November 2015 / By Jonathan Luxmoore, The Pilot Media monitors at the 57-country Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe condemned the Vatican’s trial of two journalists and urged the Holy See to honor its international press freedom commitments. “Our main concern is for the protection of confidential sources — this is a pillar…
19 Noviembre 2015 / By Nicolás Del Valle O. El Mostrador Si la preocupación respecto del pluralismo informativo fuese cierta, deberíamos ver a una UDI que luche por desconcentrar el control y la propiedad de los medios en Chile, deberíamos ver un senador Larraín que luche por paneles políticos donde se incorporen a panelistas que…
17 november 2015 / By Juan García. Huffington Post Over a quarter of a century since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the scars of Central & Eastern Europe’s post-communist legacy are still clear to see. Lacking the institutional infrastructure and regulatory oversight, the collapse of communism in the USSR created a void across the…
12 November 2015 / By New Zimbabwe OPPOSITION MDC-T legislator, Nelson Chamisa, has described as “deplorable and unpleasant” the press crackdown by government which has seen the arrest of journalists from both the private and public media. In a statement this week, Chamisa, also an advocate in Harare, said the State was “effectively criminalising journalism…
12 November 2015 / By Tamar Svanidze. Georgia Today Georgia has been elected a member of the Human Rights Council for 2016-2018. At the same time, 71 Member States of the United Nations have reviewed and given recommendations on the human rights conditions in Georgia. At the session of the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic…
28 October 2015 / By Dan Alexe. All main political groups of the European Parliament voiced concern on Thursday 29 October over an ownership dispute involving Georgia’s biggest independent TV company, Rustavi 2, and said it could harm media freedom. A court in Tbilisi earlier this month ordered a seizure of shares in the company that owns…
23 October / By Gisella Abarca. El Rancaguino En dependencias del complejo de Termas de Cauquenes se dio inicio al segundo día del vigésimo quinto Encuentro de Diarios Regionales, evento que este año tiene como anfitrión al Diario El Rancagüino, en el marco de sus cien años de historia. La autoridad nacional, fue recibida por…
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