21 August 2015/ By Milan Dinic Transparency of ownership represents one of the foundations of free and independent media. While in western democracies ownership transparency tends to be high, LSE student Milan Dinic argues that this is not the case in countries undergoing transition to the west, Serbia being one of them. He looks at…
26 June 2015 / By Sofia Globe Concerns persist about deterioration of the media environment in Bulgaria because of corporate and political pressure that, combined with the growing and nontransparent concentration of media ownership and distribution networks, gravely damaged media pluralism, the US state department said in its country report on human rights practices in…
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…
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