7 August, 2018 / By Rachel Withers, Slate Voice assistants may be revolutionizing access to news, but they’re not exactly revolutionizing variety. If the 2016 election made one thing clear, it’s that people in this country are getting their news from very different sources. But with the growing popularity of smart speaker-delivered morning briefings,…
21 June, 2018 / By Dru Sefton, current.org Revamped editorial standards for PBS emphasize inclusive content and fine-tune guidelines for the network’s social-media messaging. The standards govern “everyone who creates, evaluates, or oversees content for PBS,” according to the 14-page document. The revised rules, which took a year to craft, were approved by the PBS Board…
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…
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…
22 may, 2018 / By Karwan Faidhi Dri, rudaw.net Turkish media is violating regulations, giving the ruling party astronomically more air time than opposition parties and leaving Kurdish voices off the airwaves entirely. Turkey’s Media Communication and Postal Employees Union (HABER-SEN) recently published figures of how much time state-funded media TRT has given to each…
12 may, 2018 / By Iva Anguera de Sojo, El Independiente Los medios de comunicación se han convertido en protagonistas del proceso independentista, especialmente los medios públicos dependientes de la Generalitat, acusados de parcialidad y falta de pluralismo. Pero frente a las críticas, TV3 y Catalunya Radio cuentan con un aliado imbatible, el Consejo del Audiovisual…
10 may, 2018 / By Marguerite Clark, Radio World The government of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation has amended a draft decree encompassing audiovisual media services in French-speaking Belgium. The text, which still needs to be approved by the Belgian Parliament, but according to Media Minister Jean-Claude Marcourt, should be applied “as soon as possible,” pushes for…
29 May, 2016 / By Estrella Digital Podemos aboga por “adoptar otras estrategias” de fomento del pluralismo, la producción nacional y local en radio y televisión y la diversidad mediática, con el objetivo de situar el espacio mediático “a la altura de los estándares de calidad europeos” Podemos aboga por “poner límites a la propiedad cruzada…
19 Noviembre 2015 / By Nicolás Del Valle O. El Mostrador Si la preocupación respecto del pluralismo informativo fuese cierta, deberíamos ver a una UDI que luche por desconcentrar el control y la propiedad de los medios en Chile, deberíamos ver un senador Larraín que luche por paneles políticos donde se incorporen a panelistas que…
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