4 june, 2018 / By Jonathan Cook, dissidentvoice.org Should the media include positive editorial content secretly paid for by major corporations, as London’s Evening Standard newspaper has begun doing, according to new revelations? Most of us instantly recoil from any blurring between editorial and advertising in the media. How would we know if what was reported was…
31 May, 2018 / By Ema Sabljak, The Shift The problem of State ownership of public broadcasters in Malta becomes more apparent when compared to ownership across Europe. Public broadcasting is not uncommon, but there is a very distinctive difference between public ownership and State ownership that may not be made clear. Once ownership treads into…
28 May, 2018 / By EFJ The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) sent a letter to the Commissioners Gabriel and Oettinger on 24 May 2018 to express our concern that freedom of expression will not be reflected in the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF). We believe that it is crucial for media freedom and media pluralism to…
24 may, 2018 / By Mario Mérida, elperiodico.com.gt Solo comento documentalmente acerca de un término definido por el papa Francisco, como el “protagonismo de los pueblos en América Latina, mientras que en su sentido europeo alude a experiencias políticas como el nazismo” (El País, España. 22-01-17). Pero, es en el artículo de Horowitz Jason titulado El…
22 may, 2018 / By Karwan Faidhi Dri, rudaw.net Turkish media is violating regulations, giving the ruling party astronomically more air time than opposition parties and leaving Kurdish voices off the airwaves entirely. Turkey’s Media Communication and Postal Employees Union (HABER-SEN) recently published figures of how much time state-funded media TRT has given to each…
17 May, 2018 / by Milind Deora, The Economic Times Last month, the international NGO, Reporters Without Borders, released its annual World Press Freedom Index (WPFI). The index ranks 180 countries based on an amalgamation of qualitative and quantitative analysis that examines pluralism, media independence, media environment and self-censorship, legislative framework, transparency, quality of infrastructure for…
16 May, 2018 / By Myjoyonline It’s been 25 years since Ghana returned to democratic rule under the Fourth Republican constitution, which became operational in 1993. The constitution contains elaborate provisions on human rights. In particular, the constitution, under Chapter 12, contains very progressive provisions for media independence and freedoms. Since the inception of the…
16 May, 2018 / By The Guardian …thoughts from a conference on Media Freedom & Pluralism in Bulgaria… As I sit here in a hotel conference room in Sofia, something occurs to me. I’ve been hearing the same thing for 3 years now. Independent media is dying out across Eastern Europe and the Balkans. There…
9 may, 2018 / By Gordon Offin-Amaniampong Freedom of speech means nothing to some people. It’s nothing to such individuals, but a piece of onion flash down the kitchen sink. If it weren’t so why would they have the gut to smack or assault journalists who are merely exercising their fourth estate duties? I call them…
9 may, 2018 / By Peter Gross Spring has finally arrived. The weather is warming, students are thinking about summer vacation, soccer fans are intently following the Europa League and salivating over the upcoming World Cup, and media watchdog organizations are giving us the customary bad news in their annual reports. The year-by-year downward turn…
6 may, 2018 / By Juan Carlos Gómez, El Espectador La organización Reporteros Sin Fronteras (RSF) publica anualmente desde 2002 el índice mundial de libertad de prensa, el cual califica a 180 países. Se evalúan factores como el pluralismo, la independencia de los medios, el marco jurídico y la protección de la integridad personal de…
4 May, 2018 / By Giovana Jaspersen, La Jornada Desde 1993 la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas proclamó, por iniciativa de los países miembros de la UNESCO, el tres de mayo como el Día Mundial de la Libertad de Prensa; buscando “reconocer que una prensa libre, pluralista e independiente es un componente esencial de toda…
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