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…
September 1, 2016 / By RT Hernán Lombardi ha marcado la importancia del intercambio cultural y ha confirmado que los televidentes en Argentina podrán seguir viendo RT después de la expiración del contrato en octubre. “Es muy importante el intercambio, es muy importante la diversidad de contenidos y es muy importante que RT, que ha tenido su presencia…
April 6, 2016 / By UNESCO, Published By BigNewsNetwork.com The 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions allocates an important place to the role of media. Whether it be through highlighting the importance of media as essential advocates of the Convention, or the central role given to freedom of…
10 December, 2014 / Editorial of The Irish Times Need to curb further monopolisation in the interest of diversity The belated publication by Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources Alex White of a framework for the regulation of media mergers and acquisitions is welcome. The consultation he has launched is premised rightly on the…
15th November 2014 / By Natali Helberger This post originally appeared on the LSE Media Policy Project blog Professor Natali Helberger is professor of Information Law at the University of Amsterdam’s (UvA), Institute for Information Law (IViR). Here she highlights the need for the plurality debate to focus on user demand and consumption, in particular defining…
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