20 August, 2018 / By by Csaba Fuzfa and Republikon Institute We have reached the end of a three-year-long war in the media waged against Hír TV – the biggest anti-government television broadcaster in Hungary. The main battle took place between Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and oligarch Lajos Simicska, the owner of Hír TV, right before…
7 August, 2018 / By Rachel Withers, Slate Voice assistants may be revolutionizing access to news, but they’re not exactly revolutionizing variety. If the 2016 election made one thing clear, it’s that people in this country are getting their news from very different sources. But with the growing popularity of smart speaker-delivered morning briefings,…
19 june, 2018 / By Laura Basu, newint.org So many voices online. Surely that means more diversity and media democracy? Not really, explains Laura Basu The rise of the internet and social media has been accompanied by optimistic claims that the new technologies are leading to a great democratization of the media. After all, now anyone…
7, June, 2018 / By middle-east-online.com Turkish journalists complain of a lack of pluralism in traditional media, dominated by coverage of President Erdogan. ISTANBUL – It’s not an obvious location for a media organisation. A gritty area dominated by car repair workshops in the backstreets of Istanbul. There’s no sign outside — just a photocopied sheet…
4 june, 2018 / By Patrick Kingsley, nytimes.com LJUBLJANA, Slovenia — By finishing first in national elections in Slovenia on Sunday, the hard-liner Janez Jansa has ridden a right-wing populist wave into power in yet another European country. Among those he can thank is Viktor Orban, the Hungarian prime minister, who campaigned at his side and darkly warned that…
24 may, 2018 / By lavanguardia.com La única televisión autonómica privada de Andalucía no emite informativos pese a estar obligada a difundir dos diarios de media hora. Entre el año 2011 y el año 2017, los contenidos informativos emitidos por la RTVA y las televisiones locales crecieron cuatro puntos, al pasar del 15,7 al 19,7…
21 may, 2018 / By Joao Paulo Meneses, macaubusiness.com Independence is total, without government interference, in the Portuguese language press. Despite hefty subsidies “Although the Portuguese and English media are more critical of the Macau Government, their readers are so few that their reports can hardly be influential,” is the considered opinion of academic Bill…
12 may, 2018 / By Iva Anguera de Sojo, El Independiente Los medios de comunicación se han convertido en protagonistas del proceso independentista, especialmente los medios públicos dependientes de la Generalitat, acusados de parcialidad y falta de pluralismo. Pero frente a las críticas, TV3 y Catalunya Radio cuentan con un aliado imbatible, el Consejo del Audiovisual…
4 May, 2018 / By El Confidencial El viernes pasado, un color dominaba entre los redactores y presentadores de Televisión Española. El negro. Y no era casual. Eligieron el luto para denunciar el “bloqueo y el secuestro” de la radio y la televisión públicas por parte del PP. Porque el día anterior, los populares torpedearon el relevo en…
3 May, 2018 / By Felipe Portales, Piensa Chile La desaparición de la revista Punto Final que logró en su término el gobierno de la Concertación-Nueva Mayoría parece asombrosa; pero si revisamos el historial de los gobiernos concertacionistas en la materia constituye, lamentablemente, un episodio más de una larga lista; y la culminación de una política seguida…
27 December, 2017 / By Ekaitz Cancela La filantropía, muchas veces, se resume de la siguiente forma: un empresario acumula tan mayúsculo capital que distribuye cierto excedente entre la clase más baja para desactivar cualquier pretensión de mejora social. En lo referente al periodismo sirve para mantener vivas determinadas estructuras mediáticas inmersas en una crisis…
December 13, 2017 / By Beata Balogová This article comes from The Buzz Around the Ballot edition of Visegrad Insight 2/2017 devoted do media landscapes and disinformation in Central Europe. Read full contents page here. A decade ago, traditional publishers in the Visegrad region had thought that their major challenge was going to be keeping their print editions on…
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