October 1, 2017 / By News Ghana More than 130 radio stations in Ghana are facing the wrath of telecommunications industry regulator, the National Communications Authority, for various infractions, a press release issued by the regulator here on Friday said. The stations had their licenses revoked after a nationwide FM Spectrum Audit conducted this year…
Septiembre 25, 2017 / By Sahara Reporters Senate President Bukola Saraki is behind a group of online media outfits planning to create a parallel Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) at the National Assembly in Abuja with a view to waging war against media organizations which have been hard on him, according to a source in…
21 September, 2017 / By rcmediafreedom The media sector in Montenegro is characterised by strong political polarisation. The few examples of non-aligned investigative journalism are subject to both direct and indirect pressure by the financial and political powers in the form of legal actions and, in the worst cases, of physical attacks to reporters and their property. The…
20 September, 2017 / By Global Voices Olga Kyryliuk es una experta en Derecho Internacional con un doctorado y cofundadora de la ONG ucraniana Defensores Digitales Asociados – DDA (Партнери цифрового правозахисту en ucraniano), que se dedica a proteger los derechos humanos en línea y a promover la idea de internet libre, abierta y accesible para…
September 1, 2017 / By El Nacional Reporteros Sin Fronteras (RSF) resumió hoy la situación de la libertad de prensa en América Latina y mostró una especial preocupación por lo que se vive en México y en Venezuela. En una rueda de prensa en Bogotá, el director del despacho en América Latina de RSF, Emmanuel…
11 July, 2017 / By D. Aguayo, La Tercera Asociación Nacional de Prensa apuntó a falta de evidencia en cuestionamientos a la concentración y pluralismo de los medios. El lunes se lanzó el Informe Especial sobre Libertad de Expresión 2016, elaborado por la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) de la Organización de Estados Americanos…
5 July, 2017 / By Gulf Times German Parliament President Norbert Lammert and German Parliament’s Deputy Speaker Claudia Roth have both denied rumours circulated in Saudi media of statements attributed to them by Saudi Minister of Culture and Information, Awwad bin Saleh al-Awwad, on the Gulf crisis. Al Jazeera quoted sources inside the German Bundestag…
June 25, 2017 / by Andalou Agency, Daily Sabah. International actors and public figures in Qatar have slammed a 13-point list of demands — including one for the closure of the Al Jazeera news network — issued by four Arab states embroiled in a weeks-long political row with Doha. In a statement, the Brussels-based International…
November 18, 2016 / By Ekhatimerini Just 26 percent of Greeks believe the country’s national media is trustworthy, according to a Eurobarometer survey for 2016, which also said that only 53 percent of EU country citizens believe the same. The EC report titled “2016 Eurobarometer Survey on Media Pluralism and Democracy” suggested that 87 percent…
June 7, 2016/ By Sputniknews According to the ombudsman, this political correctness is not always maintained in Russian media. “For many years I worked in the United States, the newspapers there do write with different emphases — some are more supportive of Republicans, some support Democrats, but they write politically correct things in relation to the authorities,” Dolgov said on the sidelines of the New Era…
June 4, 2016/ By Cristóbal Osorio Vargas, Diario UChile Señor director: Con ocasión de la Querella presentada por S.E la Presidenta de la República se ha empezado analizar la libertad de expresión, el pluralismo informativo y la concentración de medios. Es un hecho público y notorio, que a la fecha, en Chile existe una profunda…
May 31, 2016/ By Azernews Provision of freedom of thought, speech and press in Azerbaijan has always been in the focus of attention of the state. Azerbaijan’s media palette has been fully formed. Ali Hasanov, the assistant to the Azerbaijani President for Public and Political Affairs, Head of the Department for Socio-Political Affairs of the…
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