17 May, 2018 / By Broadband TV News The case of the Greek government’s decision to close the public broadcaster ERT nearly five years ago is now before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg. In a statement, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) says that the application was filed in 2014 by POSPERT,…
16 May, 2018 / By EBU Nearly 5 years after the Greek government’s sudden closure of public broadcaster ERT, the case is now before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg. The application was filed in 2014 by POSPERT, the trade union representing ERT employees, and its President, Mr Kalfagiannis, after losing in…
November 18, 2016 / By Ekhatimerini Just 26 percent of Greeks believe the country’s national media is trustworthy, according to a Eurobarometer survey for 2016, which also said that only 53 percent of EU country citizens believe the same. The EC report titled “2016 Eurobarometer Survey on Media Pluralism and Democracy” suggested that 87 percent…
September 17, 2016 / By Mary Harris The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) on Friday voiced concerns that a new law restricting the number of television broadcasting licences in Greece to four will undermine pluralism and independent journalism in the Greek media. In an announcement posted on the EFJ website, it backed the Athens journalists’…
May 16, 2016 / By Petros Iosifidis, Open Democracy The study on Media Policy and Independent Journalism in Greece I co-authored for the Open Society Foundations in 2014-15 identified the most urgent problems facing media policy in Greece and how they affect independent journalism. The study was based on desktop research, literature review of sources…
29 May 2015 / By Maria Kyriakidou There is perhaps no other field that better illustrates how deeply ingrained clientelism is in Greek political culture than the media sector. Politicians, media and business have long been operating as a ‘triangle of power’, where private and political interests are intrinsically intertwined and where the media function as…
29 April 2015 / By OSCE.org The decision to reopen public service broadcaster ERT is a long awaited and important step to protect media pluralism in Greece, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović said today. ”The decision of the Greek Parliament to reopen ERT is of great importance and I warmly welcome…
19 February 2015 / By Ioanna Zikakou Greece ranked 91st in the annual Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index 2015, which is a step up compared to last year when the country was ranked in 99th place. The World Press Freedom Index ranks the performance of 180 countries according to a range of criteria that…
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