How not to measure the news plurality problem

1 October 2015 / By Martin Moore This post originally appeared on the LSE Media Policy Project blog What news did you consume yesterday? And do you remember which sources it came from? I asked myself these questions a short while ago, when preparing to respond to Ofcom’s proposals on measuring news plurality, and found…

Stonewalling a media outlet

27 September 2015 / By Petra Caruana Dingli Transport Minister Joe Mizzi plummeted to new depths last week, like some deep-water diver trying to break the record for new limits. He held an official press conference and decided to answer questions put to him by everyone except the journalist from the media outlet owned by…

Media Comment: Media pluralism? It depends

24 September 2015 / By Yisrael Medad and Eli Pollack One of the strong messages the Israeli media has sought to make to those who would, they claim, interfere with and restrain their freedom during the past year was the need for media pluralism. This was the reason given for allowing Channel 10 to continue…

Rustavi 2 Case: Attempted Subordination of Georgian Media?

13 August 2015 / By Zviad Adzinbaia, Georgia Today. Georgia’s largest TV Company and the country’s leading media organization Rustavi 2 is under attack. 100% of the company’s shares were sequestered on behalf of Georgian businessman Kibar Khalvashi- who filed a lawsuit to attempt to regain his share of the company on August 7. The…

Send in the robots: automated journalism and its potential impact on media pluralism (1)

14 August 2010 / By Pieter-Jan Ombelet Resources for investigative journalism are diminishing. In the digital age, this was a foreseeable evolution: publishers typically regard these pieces as time-consuming and expensive, and the results of the research are often unpredictable and potentially disappointing. In this first of two posts, Pieter-Jan Ombelet of the KU Leuven…

The disengagement: A media lesson

1 July 2015 / By Israel Fried Last year, journalist Kalman Libeskind conducted an interview on Galey Yisrael with attorney Dov Weisglass, who, as an adviser to the late Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, was one of the leading figures in the formulation of the Gaza disengagement plan. “We estimated the Palestinian Authority wouldn’t have difficulty…