Ownership is concentrated, transparency lacking with regard to Colombian media, study shows

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…

Más reacciones contra la concentración de medios

15 October 2015 / By Tercera Información.es Coordinadora de Advocacy del Observatorio Latinoamericano de Regulación, Medios y Convergencia (OBSERVACOM) ha expresado en el seminario “Periodismo y concentración Mediática”, organizado por la Fundación Friedrich Ebert Stiftung que la concentración de los medios de comunicación “debe ser una tarea pendiente para indagar y hacer visible en procura…

US State Department Closely Watching Rustavi 2 Developments

8 October 2015 / By Georgia Today A spokesperson for the Department of State, Marc Toner, has said in response to Rustavi 2 journalist Davut Nikuradze’s question over a US reaction to the latest developments surrounding the television company that the US is closely watching any developments. Toner stated “I think we urge that any…

How not to measure the news plurality problem

1 October 2015 / By Martin Moore This post originally appeared on the LSE Media Policy Project blog What news did you consume yesterday? And do you remember which sources it came from? I asked myself these questions a short while ago, when preparing to respond to Ofcom’s proposals on measuring news plurality, and found…

Stonewalling a media outlet

27 September 2015 / By Petra Caruana Dingli Transport Minister Joe Mizzi plummeted to new depths last week, like some deep-water diver trying to break the record for new limits. He held an official press conference and decided to answer questions put to him by everyone except the journalist from the media outlet owned by…