June 28, 2017 / by Lexology Background information/Scenario The Italian Communications Authority, Antitrust Authority, and Data Protection Authority started on 30 May 2017 a joint investigation with a view to identifying criticalities related the use of Big Data and to defining a regulatory framework promoting the protection of personal data, competition on the digital market,…
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,…
Extended public funding of media content production is not just legitimate, it’s a prerequisite for the maintenance of democracy June 27, 2017/ byDr Roddy Flynn, DCU School of Communications, dcu.ie A day long symposium organised by the Institute for Future Journalism and Media (“FuJo”) at Dublin City University at DCU last week made the…
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…
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 La Vanguardia La presidenta del Consejo Audiovisual de Andalucía (CAA), Emelina Fernández, ha defendido la necesidad de reforzar las acciones de cooperación entre la autoridad audiovisual estatal y las autonómicas para una eficaz defensa del pluralismo político y la lucha contra la violencia de género en los medios públicos. En la…
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…
May 23, 2017/ By European Western Balkans Similar to democratisation itself in the region, the transformation of the media landscape in the Western Balkans (WB) is an open-ended process that can never be fully consolidated, a process that has been marked by significant progress, but also by patterns of regression. The Balkans in Europe Policy…
April 18, 2017/ By Variety Italian media regulator Agcom has ruled that French media conglomerate Vivendi’s expansion into Italy where it has built large stakes in both Telecom Italia and broadcaster Mediaset violates the country’s anti-trust laws and given Vivendi one year to reduce its stake in one of the two companies. The decision marks…
April 13, 2017/ By Mediapool The growing presence of political and corporate propaganda in Bulgaria’s media is the most obvious indicator of the ongoing transformation in media ownership in the country. The market is increasingly occupied by the so-called “quasi-media”, pro-government propaganda agents and publications that carry out smear campaigns against politicians, journalists, and newspapers…
April 10, 2017/ By LSE Norway has a multi-party parliamentary system with a minority government coalition currently based on the Conservative Party and the populist Progress Party. The appointment of independent committees to gather information, analyze current challenges and propose new policy instruments is a stable feature of the political system. The ensuing reports are…
March 10, 2017/ By EUI The Summer School is organised by the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom (CMPF) at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the European University Institute (EUI). The EUI is a renowned international institution, hosting a community of more than 1000 academics and policy-makers from over 60 countries.…
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