Los spots del falso pluralismo

9 March 2016 / By Leonardo González*. Published by Página 12 Leonardo González asegura que es imposible hablar de pluralismo cuando el mapa de medios está en manos de pocos empresarios y empresas, existe monopolio de la información y esos medios ejercen censura sobre aquel que piensa distinto Las nuevas autoridades de Radio y Televisión Argentina…

The Turkish top-selling opposition newspaper Zaman, which supports the opposition Gülen movement, will now be published in Germany

8 March 2016 / By NEOLine/GK. Published by NewEurope Editor-in-chief of Zaman Almanya (Zaman Germany), Sueleyman Bag, made clear that the Turkish opposition daily will still be published, even though it was taken over by the Turkish government in Turkey. Bag told Reuters on Monday: “As of today we are printing a version of Zaman…

Norway scraps tax on news to encourage media

28 January 2016 / By Donald O’Donovan. Published by http://www.independent.ie/ Norway is slashing tax on all news publications to zero, in line with the country’s policy of encouraging a diverse and healthy media sector. Norwegian authorities will introduce a zero VAT rate for electronic news services from March, bringing the country’s tax treatment of online news…

Be the media, know the media, change the media

18 February 2016 / By Des Freedman We’re facing a crisis at the heart of our media system – in other words with the dominant players across our media environment – on many different levels: of funding, of ethics, of representation and of legitimacy. The crisis is related, in particular, to the increasingly unequal distribution…

Oportunidad para el pluralismo

2 February 2016 / Por Aleida Calleja. Publicar por La Silla Rota Sin duda es una buena noticia la ampliación de frecuencias liberadas en el Programa Anual de Uso y Aprovechamiento de Bandas de Frecuencias 2016 que aprobó el Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones (IFT). Es histórica la cantidad de frecuencias que serán utilizadas para poder…

In Sri Lanka, media settle in for long march to change

1 February 2016 / By Scott Griffen, Director of Press Freedom Programmes. Published by International Press Institute One year after historic election, optimism mixes with sluggish pace of reform Just over one year ago, Sri Lankans chose Maithripala Sirisena to be their next president, in a surprise rejection of incumbent leader Mahinda Rajapaksa, the man who…

Monopolios y libertad de expresión

30 January 2016 / By Arturo Flores Rodríguez. Published by El Diario del Cohuila La libertad de expresión es una característica de todo régimen que se catalogue como democrático, el discurso sobre la libertad de expresión es posible encontrarlo en muchos Estados, sin embargo en cuantiosas de las ocasiones el mismo se restringe mediante acciones…

The Problem With “Illiberal Democracy”

January 19, 2016 / By Jan-Werner Mueller in Project Sindicate PRINCETON – Poland’s turn toward authoritarian rule has set off alarm bells across the European Union and within NATO. Since coming to power in October, Jarosław Kaczyński’s Law and Justice party (PiS) has attacked the country’s Constitutional Court, politicized the judiciary and the civil service, and…

Dark Clouds over Pluralism and Freedom of Media in Poland

13 January 2016 / By Pier Luigi Parcu, Director of the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom, European University Institute Very bad news for European fundamental values is in the offing from Poland. The Polish President Andrej Duda signed a law that is creating serious concern at both national and European levels. The law was imposed, right…