August, 24, 2016/ By El Desconcierto De acuerdo a un informe realizado por el experto Luis Adolfo Breull para el Consejo Nacional de Televisión (CNTV) a fines de 2015, los cuatro principales operadores en cada sector de medios de Chile concentran más del 90% del mercado, cuando en América Latina el promedio es 80%. En…
August 10, 2016/ By Mexico Star The current Zika outbreaks, which began in 2015, have caused increasing alarm in countries across the world, particularly in Latin America and the Caribbean. Recently, the World Health Organization (WHO) revealed that ‘based on research, there is scientific consensus that Zika virus is a cause of microcephaly and Guillain-Barr’…
August 16, 2016/ By Martine Huberty Is the press really serving Grand Duchy residents? A recent report by the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom and the University of Luxembourg highlights three risks to the diversity of the media in this country. One risk is the high concentration of media ownership and cross-media ownership.…
August 9, 2016/ By Agenda Ge A high official from the Organization for Security and Co-Operation (OSCE) is praising Georgia for the progress it’s recently made in media pluralism and freedom of the press. OSCE envoy on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatovic sent a letter to Georgia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs lauding Georgia’s “substantial…
August 4, 2016/ By Mexico Star The current Zika virus outbreaks have caused increasing alarm in countries across the world, particularly in Latin America and the Caribbean. Recently, The World Health Organization (WHO) revealed that ‘based on research, there is scientific consensus that Zika virus is a cause of microcephaly and Guillain-Barr’ Syndrom’ -intensifying even…
June 25, 2016/ By Graphic Online He said, irrespective of the beneficial role religion played in the management of conflicts, particularly, violent conflicts in a nation to enhance peace and security, it could also become a source of violent conflicts and national insecurity if religious pluralism was not managed effectively. He noted that religion could…
19 July, 2016/ By Núcleo de Comunicación Política En el marco del 60 aniversario del Colegio de Periodistas, el martes 12 de julio se presentó el libro “Comunicación política y democracia en América Latina”, una compilación de artículos editados por Juan Pablo Arancibia y Claudio Salinas en lo que se tratan las diferentes dimensiones del…
June 26, 2016/ By Adnan Rehmat The evolution of current affairs media in Pakistan has entered an interesting phase — the transition from a more-or-less freewheeling age to a potentially more focused regulatory regime that can end up arriving, in the best case scenario, at a free speech environment but one that does not brook…
June 24, 2016 / By El Mostrador La tarde de ayer, la directiva del Colegio de Periodistas de Chile llegó hasta la Fiscalía Nacional Económica (FNE) para reunirse con Felipe Irarrázabal, titular de la entidad, con el fin de solicitar el levantamiento de información y su consecuente estudio, que derive en la elaboración de un…
June 14, 2016/ By Telam El titular del Sistema Federal de Medios y Contenidos Públicos, Hernán Lombardi, afirmó que el gobierno nacional “ha dado pruebas de que los medios públicos contribuyen al pluralismo”, al hacer un balance de los seis meses de la gestión macrista al frente del Poder Ejecutivo. “A mi me parece que…
June 12, 2016/ By Enca Argentina’s government has been “compulsively” taking out media,such as the RT news channel, which offer a new angle on events, the Justice Ministry’s former undersecretary said on Sunday. Argentina’s State Radio and Television Society (RTA SE) plans to exclude the international channel from free transmission starting in August, but will…
June 7, 2016/ By Sputniknews According to the ombudsman, this political correctness is not always maintained in Russian media. “For many years I worked in the United States, the newspapers there do write with different emphases — some are more supportive of Republicans, some support Democrats, but they write politically correct things in relation to the authorities,” Dolgov said on the sidelines of the New Era…
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