Oktober 17, 2017 / By FRA The FRA Director, Michael O’Flaherty, outlined the difficulties in today’s media landscape when opening the General Affairs Council’s annual rule of law dialogue on 17 October in Luxembourg. Addressing Ministers and State Secretaries responsible for EU affairs he suggested five initiatives he felt could help strengthen media pluralism…
Oktober 13, 2017 / By Julia Reda, Internautas Un nuevo estudio realizado a petición del Parlamento Europeo considera que el derecho de autor adicional previsto para los sitios de noticias es una idea terrible. Pero los diputados al Parlamento Europeo no podrán enterarse de ello hasta después de que hayan votado la polémica propuesta. “Hay preocupaciones…
September 11, 2017/ By Fairpress Mr. Désir was appointed as the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media on 18 July 2017 for a period of three years. His activities, as the OSCE RoFM, include observing media developments as part of an early warning function and helping participating States abide by their commitments to freedom…
June 26, 2017 / by Maud Sacquet, project-disco.org On 15 June 2017, the European Commission’s Digital Vice President Andrus Ansip “lamented Parliament divisions on issues ranging from hyperlinking to text and data mining, after Members of the European Parliament tabled close to a thousand amendments to the copyright file”. As evidenced by recent coalition letters (here, here and here) from consumer representatives,…
June 2, 2017/ By New Europe Media plurality in Europe is at risk, according to the latest Media Pluralism Monitor (MPM) report by The Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom’s (CMPF). The analysis assessed risks to media plurality in the EU, Turkey and Montenegro using data gathered over the year of 2016. Cyprus, Italy and Norway were…
December 12, 2016/ By Open Democracy Over the weekend, Facebook sent me a link to a video they had made of my activity on their site over the last year. To my mind, that was more proof, if any were needed, that Facebook is a media company, despite all its protestations. A study by Enders…
November 23, 2016/ By Notas Periodismo Popular El Parlamento europeo votó este martes una resolución sobre la “comunicación estratégica” con el objetivo de combatir una presunta campaña informativa rusa contra la Unión Europea (UE). Además de comparar a Rusia con el Estado Islámico, el texto está plagado de frases que dan la sensación de un…
November 21, 2016/ By Latin American Herald Tribune BRUSSELS – Over half of Europeans consider their national media outlets not free from political or commercial pressure, according to a European Commission report published on Thursday. An EC report titled “2016 Eurobarometer Survey on Media Pluralism and Democracy” found that 57 percent of Europeans held this…
November 18, 2016/ By El Boletín Faltaban datos para corroborar la sensación de que cada vez menos gente otorga credibilidad a los medios de comunicación. Ahora que el Eurobarómetro ha publicado una encuesta sobre el sector, la sensación se ha hecho realidad. Según el estudio realizado por este órgano dependiente de la Comisión Europea, los…
November 17, 2016/ By Press Release A Eurobarometer survey published today, 17 November, shows that European citizens are worried about the independence of the media; levels of trust in media are low, and citizens are concerned about the impact of online hate speech. First Vice-President Frans Timmermans, Commissioner Günther Oettinger and Commissioner Věra Jourová will…
November 11, 2016/ By Juantxo López de Urralde Dicen que corren malos tiempos para el periodismo. Desde un lado les acusan de someterse a las empresas, de que compran su libertad de información con la publicidad; desde el otro los propios periodistas se defienden y también hacen autocrítica; y en medio tenemos un mercado de…
2, November 2016/ By The Brussels Times In the past decade more than 800 journalists have been killed for reporting the news and bringing information to the public: on average one death every week. In nine out of ten cases the killers go unpunished. Impunity leads to more killings and is often a symptom of worsening…
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