26 June 2015 / By Chris Johnstone The Czech prime minister’s comments on media pluralism and ownership came in a meeting with European public broadcasting bosses as their grouping, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), meets in Prague for its strategy setting general assembly. Bohuslav Sobotka said that the Czech media market should be subject to stepped…
19 June 2015 / By Alison O’Connor The general lack of reaction to the Government’s new media-merger guidelines, which were published last week, says a lot. In the midst of a massive national controversy about the concentration of media ownership and censorship, Alex White, the communications minister, finally publishes the new rules for governing this…
4 June 2015 / By CONICYT Chile Este Fondo ha financiado una serie de estudios que han mostrado interesantes resultados que evidencia el panorama informativo de nuestro país. El próximo miércoles 17 de junio a las 9:00 horas, en el Edificio Institucional de CONICYT (Moneda 1375), se presentarán los resultados de estudios pertenecientes al Fondo de…
9 june 2015 / By Fiach Kelly New media mergers guidelines which say it is “undesirable” for one person or business to hold excessive influence in the industry are set to be passed by Cabinet on Tuesday. Minister for Communications Alex White is expected to publish the guidelines once they have been passed by Ministers…
4 June 2015 / By Laura Slattery, Irish Times Government guidelines designed to protect pluralism have finally been set In the frenetic, fast-evolving world of media, nothing appears to move more slowly than the laws and regulations that govern it. Minister for Communications Alex White, due to present final guidelines for the new media merger…
2 June 2015 / By Hurriyet Daily News The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) called the Turkish government on May 31 ‘to urgently recognize the importance of plural voices within the media and to provide the conditions for independent sources of information’ as the country is only a week ahead of critical…
29 May 2015 / By Maria Kyriakidou There is perhaps no other field that better illustrates how deeply ingrained clientelism is in Greek political culture than the media sector. Politicians, media and business have long been operating as a ‘triangle of power’, where private and political interests are intrinsically intertwined and where the media function as…
27 May 2015 / María Amparo Grau. El nacional.com Los postulados desarrollados por el Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos sobre la libertad de expresión en el asunto “Handyside”, y reiterados en muchas de las decisiones de la materia, nos permiten afirmar que lo que ocurre contra los directivos y editores de varios medios de comunicación…
25 May 2015 / By EFE Bruselas. Heraldo.es La Unión Europea (UE) criticó hoy la promulgación de una ley en Rusiaque permite declarar “indeseables” a las ONG extranjeras e internacionales, al tiempo que subrayó que contradice a la mismaConstitución rusa. “La nueva ley que permite declarar “indeseables” a las ONG, promulgada por el presidente ruso…
20 May 2015 / By Charter 97 A big delegation of journalists of independent media, including the leadership of the Belarusian Journalist Association, as well as representatives of the Information Ministry of the Journalism faculty of the Belarusian State University, journalists of state-run media, are taking part in the conference preceding the Eastern Partnership Summit…
14 May 2015 / By Nelly Ognyanova and Orlin Spassov The condition of the media environment in Bulgaria makes it a special case. The country ranks lowest among European Union Member States in the World Press Freedom Index of Reporters without Borders for 2015 (106th place in the overall ranking). This trend shows no sign of improving, with…
10 May 2015 / By M. Zahangir Kabir In November 2005, the World Summit on (WSIS) called upon the UN General Assembly to declare May 17 as the World Information Society Day to focus on a wide range of issues. The General Assembly adopted a resolution in March 2006 stipulating that the World Information Society Day…
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