15 December, 2014 / By European Parliament News Mr Schulz opened the December session with a reminder that freedom of the press and media pluralism are fundamental EU values. We take our negotiations with Turkey as a candidate country very seriously, he said, and must therefore point to problems as well as to progress. President…
10 December, 2014 / Editorial of The Irish Times Need to curb further monopolisation in the interest of diversity The belated publication by Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources Alex White of a framework for the regulation of media mergers and acquisitions is welcome. The consultation he has launched is premised rightly on the…
8 December 2014 / By Fiach Kelly. Irish Times While the new guidelines on media mergers do not mention any person or individual companies by name, the shadow of Denis O’Brien looms large. The new media merger legislation and accompanying guidelines have been a long time coming and follow a tug-of-war between the Department of…
30 November 2014 / By Diario Estepona IU defiende a la plantilla de RTVM ante los despidos del PP y urge a su democratización con garantías de pluralismo. Díaz: “RTVM y sus profesionales tienen que desarrollar un papel clave en el impulso democrático, pero con el PP en el gobierno es imposible” El Grupo Municipal de…
26th November 2014 / By Voice of America The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has condemned as “drastic and disproportionate” an injunction by a court in Kazakhstan effectively shutting down a weekly magazine. The OSCE said Wednesday that the Almaty district court’s order to stop the distribution and publication of the independent magazine…
25th November 2014 / By Marcus Ryder Marcus Ryder is the Chair of the Royal Television Society Diversity Committee, and Head of Current Affairs BBC Scotland. He recently organised the first political hustings on media diversity between the three main Westminster political parties on how each Party would aim to increase diversity if they won the…
25th November 2014 / By Robert G. Picard Robert G. Picard is Director of Research at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford, a research fellow at Green Templeton College (Oxford), and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Here he argues that digital intermediaries should not be ignored in the…
18th November 2014 / By Peter Barron & Simon Morrison In this latest post in our series on the role of digital intermediaries and media plurality, Peter Barron, Google’s head of communications for Europe, Middle East and Africa, and his colleague Simon Morrison, Public Policy Manager, argue that the Internet and digital technologies have only…
15th November 2014 / By Natali Helberger This post originally appeared on the LSE Media Policy Project blog Professor Natali Helberger is professor of Information Law at the University of Amsterdam’s (UvA), Institute for Information Law (IViR). Here she highlights the need for the plurality debate to focus on user demand and consumption, in particular defining…
12th October 2014 / By Turkish Media Wach Freedom and pluralism of the media are key issues potential candidate states are being asked to take into account in order to be a part of the European Union, Maja Kocijancic, a spokesperson for the European Commission, said when asked to evaluate an expanding media accreditation ban…
8th November 2014 / By La semana pasada se hizo público el informe correspondiente al Reino Unido de las pruebas piloto del Monitor del Pluralismo de los Medios, promovido por la Comisión Europea y que coordina el Centro para el Pluralismo y la Libertad de los Medios (CMPMF), dependiente del Instituto Universitario Europeo de Florencia.…
5th November 2014 / By John Cordina The government’s manipulation of public broadcasting in the 1980s is largely at the root of the present weaknesses in Malta’s broadcasting sector, according to a report published by the Today Public Policy Institute today. The twelfth report published by the think-tank since its inception in 2008 is called…
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