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 April 2015 / By Europa Press El PSOE de Castilla-La Mancha ha presentado una denuncia ante la Junta Electoral regional contra el director general del Ente Público Radio-televisión Castilla La Mancha (RTVCM), Ignacio Villa, por “la falta de pluralismo, igualdad, proporcionalidad y neutralidad informativa de los servicios informativos de la cadena pública”, en concreto,…
15 mayo 2015 / By European Federation of Journalist The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), together with organisations representing media workers and employers in the creative and cultural industry have called on European policy makers to ensure job growth, media diversity and quality content in the response to the European Commission’s consultation on spectrum policy.…
11 April 2015 / By Mark Kenan. http://www.counterpunch.org The Irish Times is an “independent newspaper primarily concerned with serious issues for the benefit of the community throughout the whole of Ireland free from any form of personal or of party political, commercial, religious or other control” — Geraldine Kennedy, former of the Irish Times, defending…
9 April 2015 / By EBU The President of the EBU says hackers who seized control of EBU approved participant TV5 Monde for three hours this week are guilty of a gross violation of freedom of expression. Jean-Paul Philippot condemned the cyber-attack in the strongest terms. “Hacking into the output in this way threatens the…
6 April 2015 / By Franci Xavier Muñoz. http://www.tutribuna.es Las elecciones autonómicas andaluzas han revelado dos claros triunfadores: Podemos y Ciudadanos. Sin embargo, teniendo en cuenta la inclemente campaña política y mediática contra Podemos, nunca vista desde la recuperación de la democracia en 1977, y teniendo en cuenta además que Podemos no se financia mediante…
1 April 2015 / By OSCE.org VIENNA, 1 April 2015 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today said that media pluralism and access to information in Crimea, Ukraine, have been limited even further, following the end of the imposed re-registration period for all media outlets by 1 April 2015. “Crimean Tatar…
30 March 2015 / By elboletin.com Esperanza Aguirre ha realizado su particular análisis la diversidad de contenidos y propiedad de los medios de comunicación. La candidata al Ayuntamiento de Madrid ha criticado que algunas cadenas sesguen la información que presentan, algo que en su opinión no ocurre con Telemadrid y, en general, con “los medios que…
10 March 2015 / By William Horsley Media policy is a tough challenge facing the new Commission, writes William Horsley. He advocates greater guarantees against interference, and also new business models. William Horsley is a former BBC correspondent, media freedom representative of the Association of European Journalists (AEJ) and member of its working group ‘European strategy…
27 February 2015 / By RTT News Staff Writer An appeals court in Kazakhstan has upheld an order to close a media outlet known for its critical articles. ADAM bol (“Be A Person”), an independent weekly, is the latest media outlet to be shuttered in Kazakhstan since late 2012, when authorities began a concerted crackdown…
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…
8 February 2015 / By In Serbia Networks American Fund “KKR investment”, headed by former CIA chief General David Petraeus, from October 2013 until this day, in less than a year and a half, has put under its control a significant part of Serbian media, internet portal “Vaseljenska” reported. Americans first bought SBB, the largest cable…
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