5 November 2014 / By Robin Foster Robin Foster is an adviser on strategy, policy and regulation in the media and communications sectors and a founding member of Communications Chambers. He previously held strategy and board level posts at Ofcom, Independent Television Commission, and the BBC and has provided senior level advice to leading organisations including…
4th November 2014 / By /www.teinteresa.es La denuncia del aumento de la concentración de la propiedad de los medios europeos en manos de unos pocos grupos de comunicación es este año el objetivo central de la jornada europea ‘En pie por el periodismo’, que ha convocado para este jueves la Federación Europea de Periodistas (FEP). En…
3 November 2014 / By Adelina Marini, Zagreb EU can and should have a bigger role in supporting media freedom and pluralism in the EU and beyond. This is how begins the report of the high level group on media pluralism and freedom, established by the former European commissioner for the digital agenda and media, Neelie…
4th November 2014 / by Emma Goodman, LSE Media Policy Project Today, the Advisory Council to Google on the Right to be Forgotten holds its last public meeting in Brussels. The Council, which was set up by Google following the European Court of Justice’s ruling that a Spanish citizen had the right to ask the…
1th november 2014 / By LSE Media Policy (blog) LSE Media Policy Project (blog) Over the coming weeks, this blog will host insight from leading world experts focusing on the topic of the role of new digital intermediaries in the context of traditional media policy concerns with media pluralism and editorial responsibility. We are pleased…
21 October 2014 / Media Policy Project Blog LSE 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 . He explains the results of the pilot implementation in the UK…
October 19, 2014 / By Diego Taboada Varela Pues siento decirlo, pero para mí la península ibérica no tiene solución. Haría falta un verdadero milagro político para poner algo de orden en lo que José Saramago bautizó como la Jangada de Pedra. Pues siento decirlo, pero para mí la península ibérica no tiene solución. Haría falta…
October 17, 2014 / By Svetla Dimitrova Media concentration and lack of ownership transparency are a major obstacle to media pluralism and freedom in Bulgaria. According to media law expert Nelly Ognyanova, neither of these obstacles can be removed without political will. Interview A campaign in support of a European Citizens Initiative on Media Pluralism was underway…
October 17, 2014 / By Igne Graef Inge Graef, an expert on the intersection between personal data and competition law on online media platforms from KU Leuven, looks at the Facebook/WhatsApp acquisition and argues that the European Commission should have examined the impact data concentration can have on attracting and retaining users and privacy as a…
October 16, 2014 / RIA NOVOSTI en.ria.ru Russia should make every effort to guarantee freedom of expression, support media pluralism, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) researcher told RIA Novosti, regarding the new law, which has reduced the possible share of foreign stockholders in Russian media. MOSCOW, October 16 (RIA Novosti) – Russia should make every effort…
October 16, 2014 / Walk Street Journal By VERONIKA GULYAS Thursday confirmed it filed an official complaint to the European Commission about Hungary’s advertising tax, saying it hurt media pluralism and was discriminatory. Hungary introduced a new advertising tax this summer levied on revenues with progressive tax rates ranging from 0% to 40%, payable by media…
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