28 October 2015 / By Dan Alexe. All main political groups of the European Parliament voiced concern on Thursday 29 October over an ownership dispute involving Georgia’s biggest independent TV company, Rustavi 2, and said it could harm media freedom. A court in Tbilisi earlier this month ordered a seizure of shares in the company that owns…
2 November 2015 / By Georgia Today Georgia’s ambassador to the United States, Archil Gegeshidze, sent a letter to The Washington Post editorial board titled, “Democracy and media pluralism thrive in Georgia.” The letter is a response to the October 27th article by the Washington Post, “A seizure of a popular TV station would be…
30 October 2015 / By Daily News Media freedom, pluralism and media playing the field for candidates were areas which raised concerns ahead of Turkey’s Nov. 1 elections, according to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s (OSCE) election observation leaders, who spoke after their multi-city visit. The OSCE special coordinator for observation of…
29 October 2015 / By Charter 97 Media freedom in Belarus is impossible because of the authorization system of registration and arbitrary rules of revoking licences. It was one of the conclusions of the report on the freedom of expression, which is to be presented by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights in…
29 October 2015 / By Diplomatic Intelligence.eu Police raiding offices of media outlets, detaining journalists, and using tear gas and water cannons, is unacceptable, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović said Wednesday. “This morning’s raid by the police on the television channels Kanaltürk and Bugün TV is a clear obstruction of media…
26 October 2015 / By Washington Post SINCE A 2012 election led to a peaceful transfer of power rarely seen in former Soviet Eurasia, the Caucasian nation of Georgia has skirted the edges of democratic norms. A new government led by a populist billionaire tried to prosecute the election losers, including former president Mikheil Saakashvili, and…
23 October / By Gisella Abarca. El Rancaguino En dependencias del complejo de Termas de Cauquenes se dio inicio al segundo día del vigésimo quinto Encuentro de Diarios Regionales, evento que este año tiene como anfitrión al Diario El Rancagüino, en el marco de sus cien años de historia. La autoridad nacional, fue recibida por…
23 October 2015 / By Cronica Viva.pe La organización internacional Reporteros Sin Fronteras (RSF) y la Federación Colombiana de Periodistas (FELCOPER), presentaron el proyecto para el monitoreo de la propiedad de los medios de comunicación a través de la página web http://www.monitoreodemedios.co. El proyecto forma parte de una iniciativa global impulsada por RSF denominada Media…
19 Octubre 2015 / By Radio Macondo “Los medios fabrican su propia realidad, la realidad colombiana es la que figura en la primera página de El Tiempo. Y entonces dominan esa realidad que ellos mismos fabrican. Los políticos que ponen, los protagonismos que arman, las frivolidades que fomentan, pero eso también es soga para su…
19 October 2014 / By El Periódico Antena 3 no respetó el pluralismo informativo durante la campaña electoral de las autonómicas catalanas. Esta es la conclusión más destacada del informa realizado por el Consell de l’Audiovisual de Catalunya (CAC) sobre las noticias relacionadas con el 27-S, un estudio que presentará a la Comisión Nacional de…
17 October 2015 / By Journalism in the Americas Blog Journalists and press advocates have created another project to study concentration of media ownership in Colombia. They found low transparency, high ownership concentration and links between media owners and the political world, among other insights. Media Ownership Monitor (MOM), a project between the German branch of…
16 October 2015 / By Comunicados.co El proyecto para el monitoreo de la propiedad de los medios de comunicación en el país, realizado por Reporteros sin Fronteras, revela oligopolios y falta de regulación; así mismo, proporciona datos actualizados y un análisis detallado del mercado de los medios de comunicación en Colombia. El sitio web público www.monitoreodemedios.co ha…
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