12 June, 2018 / By Opendemocracy When the Winter Cherry shopping mall in Kemerovo, Russia caught on fire on 25 March 2018, Russia’s citizens found themselves glued to televisions anxious for updates. With 60 dead, among them 41 children, the fire was classified as the second largest in Russia in recent years. However, what the Russian…
10 June, 2018 / By Cristina Vázquez, elpais.com La directora general de À punt asegura que la voluntad es no malgastar ni despilfarrar ni un euro de los valencianos La periodista y filóloga Empar Marco (Godella, 1959) ganó el concurso público a la dirección general de À punt -que sucede a Radiotelevisión Valenciana (RTVV)- en febrero de…
9 june, 2018 / By freepresskashmir.com ‘I never thought the day would come when in my own country, I would be told to hire private security’ Barkha Dutt, a senior journalist Indian told platform Newsclick that she had been receiving veiled threats from ‘powerful people in the establishment’. In an interview with journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta on…
8 june, 2018 / By Cherry Agarwal, newslaundry.com For a week now, former President Pranab Mukherjee’s tentative visit to the Nagpur headquarters of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has been making news. Mukherjee, formerly a Congress leader, had accepted the Sangh’s invite to be the chief guest at the passing out parade of Sangh trainees, much…
7, June, 2018 / By middle-east-online.com Turkish journalists complain of a lack of pluralism in traditional media, dominated by coverage of President Erdogan. ISTANBUL – It’s not an obvious location for a media organisation. A gritty area dominated by car repair workshops in the backstreets of Istanbul. There’s no sign outside — just a photocopied sheet…
7, June, 2018 / By ebu.ch The EBU has welcomed the political deal reached on the revised Audiovisual Media Services (AVMS) Directive. Following months of trilogue discussions, the EBU welcomed the final political agreement and commended the fact that it maintains key provisions of the AVMS Directive to secure access to impartial news, information and major…
7, June, 2018 / By Europa press, lavanguardia.com El Ministerio de Economía y Empresa, dirigido por Nadia Calviño, deberá afrontar una nueva reordenación de la Televisión Digital Terrestre (TDT), como consecuencia del conocido como ‘Segundo Dividendo Digital’, por el que las televisiones deberán mudar de frecuencia y ceder su espacio para impulsar el desarrollo del…
6 june, 2018 / By ghanaweb.com He stresses that the social intervention programmes by the former president when he was in power are still relevant in the development of this country as no president in the fourth republic has been able to roll out such life changing social intervention programmes even though the former president…
5 june, 2018 / By Andrés Guzmán Ayala, kienyke.com La cultura configura la identidad de un país. Y para ello, es necesario estimular la representación de todas las regiones y que sus identidades puedan verse reflejadas. Este es precisamente el objeto de algo como el Sistema Público de Canales Regionales. Colombia ha tardado muchísimos años en construir un Sistema…
4 june, 2018 / By Jonathan Cook, dissidentvoice.org Should the media include positive editorial content secretly paid for by major corporations, as London’s Evening Standard newspaper has begun doing, according to new revelations? Most of us instantly recoil from any blurring between editorial and advertising in the media. How would we know if what was reported was…
4 june, 2018 / By Patrick Kingsley, nytimes.com LJUBLJANA, Slovenia — By finishing first in national elections in Slovenia on Sunday, the hard-liner Janez Jansa has ridden a right-wing populist wave into power in yet another European country. Among those he can thank is Viktor Orban, the Hungarian prime minister, who campaigned at his side and darkly warned that…
3 June, 2018 / By Mundodiario La prensa de calidad en España se caracterizó durante la mayor parte de la democracia por tener tendencias pero no por ser partidaria, sino más bien por ser plural y veraz en su información y por fijar posición solo en su sección de opinión. Tener tendencia es lo habitual…
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