26 June 2015 / By Sofia Globe Concerns persist about deterioration of the media environment in Bulgaria because of corporate and political pressure that, combined with the growing and nontransparent concentration of media ownership and distribution networks, gravely damaged media pluralism, the US state department said in its country report on human rights practices in…
26 June 2015 / By Chris Johnstone The Czech prime minister’s comments on media pluralism and ownership came in a meeting with European public broadcasting bosses as their grouping, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), meets in Prague for its strategy setting general assembly. Bohuslav Sobotka said that the Czech media market should be subject to stepped…
19 June 2015 / By Alison O’Connor The general lack of reaction to the Government’s new media-merger guidelines, which were published last week, says a lot. In the midst of a massive national controversy about the concentration of media ownership and censorship, Alex White, the communications minister, finally publishes the new rules for governing this…
4 June 2015 / By Laura Slattery, Irish Times Government guidelines designed to protect pluralism have finally been set In the frenetic, fast-evolving world of media, nothing appears to move more slowly than the laws and regulations that govern it. Minister for Communications Alex White, due to present final guidelines for the new media merger…
29 May 2015 / By Maria Kyriakidou There is perhaps no other field that better illustrates how deeply ingrained clientelism is in Greek political culture than the media sector. Politicians, media and business have long been operating as a ‘triangle of power’, where private and political interests are intrinsically intertwined and where the media function as…
27 May 2015 / María Amparo Grau. El nacional.com Los postulados desarrollados por el Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos sobre la libertad de expresión en el asunto “Handyside”, y reiterados en muchas de las decisiones de la materia, nos permiten afirmar que lo que ocurre contra los directivos y editores de varios medios de comunicación…
16 May 2015 / Elsa Buchanan. International Business Times UK A day after an attempted coup in Burundi failed, the country has descended into a communications “blackout”, as all but one media have been shut down and opposition leaders say they are fearing a post-coup repression. Following weeks of protest, the Burundian army announced a coup on 13…
14 May 2015 / By Nelly Ognyanova and Orlin Spassov The condition of the media environment in Bulgaria makes it a special case. The country ranks lowest among European Union Member States in the World Press Freedom Index of Reporters without Borders for 2015 (106th place in the overall ranking). This trend shows no sign of improving, with…
10 May 2015 / By M. Zahangir Kabir In November 2005, the World Summit on (WSIS) called upon the UN General Assembly to declare May 17 as the World Information Society Day to focus on a wide range of issues. The General Assembly adopted a resolution in March 2006 stipulating that the World Information Society Day…
9 May 2015 / By Salvador Muñoz Hace pocos días nos enteramos del cierre del departamento de prensa y de varios programas de La Red lo que es una noticia lamentable pues además de implicar una serie de despidos a profesionales y equipos técnicos del canal, significa una nueva pérdida para el cada vez más…
4 May 2015 / By Wilfredo Miranda Aburto “Putin controla casi todos los periódicos”. Periodistas independientes rusos denuncian amenazas a la libertad de prensa y los riesgos físicos y psicológicos de ejercer la profesión Riga (Letonia).- Más de 300 periodistas se han reunido en Letonia para discutir la situación de la libertad de prensa en el…
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…
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