8 December 2014 / By Fiach Kelly. Irish Times While the new guidelines on media mergers do not mention any person or individual companies by name, the shadow of Denis O’Brien looms large. The new media merger legislation and accompanying guidelines have been a long time coming and follow a tug-of-war between the Department of…
30 November 2014 / By Diario Estepona IU defiende a la plantilla de RTVM ante los despidos del PP y urge a su democratización con garantías de pluralismo. Díaz: “RTVM y sus profesionales tienen que desarrollar un papel clave en el impulso democrático, pero con el PP en el gobierno es imposible” El Grupo Municipal de…
30 November 2014 / By Paula Correa El primer encuentro analizó el producto que llega a los usuarios, el desarrollo de contenidos, la infraestructura y la falta de una legislación adecuada, constituyendo una red que estará atenta al monitoreo de los medios y el desarrollo de las comunicaciones en nuestro país. Este sábado se realizó…
30th November 2014 / By Telam Politica Lo indicó el jefe de Gabinete y señaló, además, que “no hay ninguna posibilidad de desarrollar la creatividad y el talento artístico si no hay un rol activo del Estado para promover este diseño y ejecución de las políticas públicas”. Al encabezar la apertura del 4to. Encuentro de…
26th November 2014 / By Voice of America The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has condemned as “drastic and disproportionate” an injunction by a court in Kazakhstan effectively shutting down a weekly magazine. The OSCE said Wednesday that the Almaty district court’s order to stop the distribution and publication of the independent magazine…
25th November 2014 / By Prince Obimpeh (Peace fm Online) A Ghanaian has been elected to serve as rapporteur on the Bureau of the Intergovernmental Council of the International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC at the Headquarters of UNESCO in Paris, France on. Mrs. Diana Heymann-Adu who was a Senior Lecturer at the…
25th November 2014 / By Marcus Ryder Marcus Ryder is the Chair of the Royal Television Society Diversity Committee, and Head of Current Affairs BBC Scotland. He recently organised the first political hustings on media diversity between the three main Westminster political parties on how each Party would aim to increase diversity if they won the…
22th November 2014 / By Ghana High Commission, Windhoek, Namibia Former President John Agyekum Kufuor was last week in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital participating in activities marking the 20th anniversary of the Governing Council of Interpeace, based in Geneva, Switzerland, of which he has been chairman for the past five years. The Ghanaian former President took…
21th November 2014 / By AllAfrica In respect to the passing of two notable Liberian broadcast journalists, the Free Press Movement (FPM), a liberal media policy think-tank within the Press Union of Liberia has announced the suspension of its campaign to democratically remove Kamara Abdullai Kamara as President of the Journalists’ Union for ‘subjecting’ the…
12th October 2014 / By Turkish Media Wach Freedom and pluralism of the media are key issues potential candidate states are being asked to take into account in order to be a part of the European Union, Maja Kocijancic, a spokesperson for the European Commission, said when asked to evaluate an expanding media accreditation ban…
8th November 2014 / By La semana pasada se hizo público el informe correspondiente al Reino Unido de las pruebas piloto del Monitor del Pluralismo de los Medios, promovido por la Comisión Europea y que coordina el Centro para el Pluralismo y la Libertad de los Medios (CMPMF), dependiente del Instituto Universitario Europeo de Florencia.…
4th November 2014 / By /www.teinteresa.es La denuncia del aumento de la concentración de la propiedad de los medios europeos en manos de unos pocos grupos de comunicación es este año el objetivo central de la jornada europea ‘En pie por el periodismo’, que ha convocado para este jueves la Federación Europea de Periodistas (FEP). En…
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