11 April 2015 / By Mark Kenan. http://www.counterpunch.org The Irish Times is an “independent newspaper primarily concerned with serious issues for the benefit of the community throughout the whole of Ireland free from any form of personal or of party political, commercial, religious or other control” — Geraldine Kennedy, former of the Irish Times, defending…
23 March 2015 / By Jesús Silva-Herzog Márquez La salida del aire de Carmen Aristegui parece una arrebatada decisión empresarial, una afrenta a su audiencia, un problema adicional para un gobierno cuestionado, un nuevo golpe a nuestro precario sistema de equilibrios. Si tiene elementos de verdad el argumento de que se trata de un pleito entre…
13 March 2015 / By Claudio Avendano, Universidad de Santiago/ La nacion En el seminario organizado por el CNTV, José Miguel Insulza acierta en el foco sobre pluralismo y libertad de expresión, pero deja en el patio a los ciudadanos quienes son fundamentales en el nuevo tipo de narrativa política expresada en los escándalos políticos…
19 February 2015 / By Silvia Chocarro There is no question media pluralism and diversity are crucial for strong democracies. The pressing question is how to guarantee it. According to a group of Latin American experts that met in Washington, DC, the media environment in the region needs some regulation–but without undermining media independence. The…
13 February 2015 / By Jigger J. Jerusalem THE continuing impunity and the unabated media killings in the country are still the main reasons the Philippines has ranked low in a worldwide survey on press freedom, a media group leader said Friday. Although its ranking among the 180 countries has moved a few notches higher, the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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