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…
May 31, 2017 / By Euobserver The risk to free press posed by Czech oligarch Andrej Babis is not serious enough to warrant EU intervention, the European Commission said on Tuesday (30 May). Giuseppe Abbamonte, director of the media and data directorate at the EU commission, told MEPs in the civil liberties committee that “there…
May 31, 2017 / By Radio Praha El magnate Andrej Babiš, el segundo hombre más rico de Chequia, llegó a la política y poco tiempo después compró MAFRA, un grupo mediático en el que se encuentran los dos periódicos más influyentes, Lidové Noviny y Mladá Fronta Dnes. Pero eso no fue todo. También compró Radio…
29 June 2015 / By Cecilia López González La propuesta sobre del pluralismo en los medios y los propietarios llega después de una reunión con la Unión Europea de Radiodifusión, que se reúne en Praga para celebrar su Asamblea General. Bohuslav Sobotka afirmó que el mercado de medios checo deberá estar sujeto a algún tipo…
26 June 2015 / By Chris Johnstone The Czech prime minister’s comments on media pluralism and ownership came in a meeting with European public broadcasting bosses as their grouping, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), meets in Prague for its strategy setting general assembly. Bohuslav Sobotka said that the Czech media market should be subject to stepped…
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