17 September, 2017 / By Antonio Pasquali, El Nacional El título de esta nota reproduce el inicio del artículo 58 de la Constitución venezolana, la única del mundo en explicitar la esencial inherencia del pluralismo en la libre comunicabilidad, vale decir la inexistencia de esta si desprovista de aquella extensión. Una libertad que no libera, que no es…
September 14, 2017 / By Alla Rosca The greatest propagandist of Moldova pretends to be the great propaganda fighter,” remarked Maia Sandu, the pro-European leader of the Action and Solidarity Party, about Vladimir Plahotniuc’s recent legislative initiative. In June 2017, Plahotniuc, the chairman of Moldova’s Democratic Party, introduced legislation ostensibly intended to bolster the security…
September 10, 2017 / By Mironline The world’s 400th IKEA store recently opened in Serbia. This seemingly banal event has special significance for the country, where an IKEA first opened in the early 1990s and quickly closed as the crisis in Yugoslavia worsened. Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić effusively praised the arrival of the furniture store as a…
June 29, 2017 / by The Peninsula The reported demand, by a number of governments, to close the Al Jazeera Media Network in exchange for the lifting of sanctions would strike a major blow against media pluralism in a region already suffering from severe restrictions on reporting and media of all kinds, said the UN…
December 11, 2016/ By Estrategia y Negocios Así lo expresa el relator especial de Libertad de Expresión de la Organización de Estados Americanos, Edison Lanza, al diario nicaragüense ‘La Prensa’; otras preocupaciones son el duopolio de medios (estatal y privado, con Ángel González) y el uso de la publicidad estatal como premio y castigo. Edison…
December 2, 2016/ By La República Un informe realizado en nuestro país por Reporteros sin Fronteras (RSF) y el medio digital de investigación Ojo Público, denominado Monitoreo de Propiedad de Medios (MOM, por sus siglas en inglés), concluyó que el Perú presenta un alto nivel de concentración de los medios de comunicación, lo que, a…
December 1, 2016/ By El Divisadero La información gubernamental que se despacha a los medios de comunicación y que la mayoría de las veces se difunde, suele llevar a los lectores, auditores o televidentes, a calificar a la prensa como una mera reproductora de notas oficialista, de ser marcadamente gobiernista. En contraste, cuando no se…
October 31, 2016/ By Terra La Comisión Europea (CE) ha hecho un llamamiento a todos los Estados, medios de comunicación y profesionales de la información para acabar con la impunidad frente a los delitos cometidos contra periodistas, solo dos días antes de que se celebre la jornada internacional dedicada a ese fin. “Pedimos a todos…
June 12, 2016/ By Enca Argentina’s government has been “compulsively” taking out media,such as the RT news channel, which offer a new angle on events, the Justice Ministry’s former undersecretary said on Sunday. Argentina’s State Radio and Television Society (RTA SE) plans to exclude the international channel from free transmission starting in August, but will…
13 February 2015 / By Staff Correspondant The Daily Star Bangladesh’s position remained unchanged at 146 among 180 countries in this year’s World Press Freedom Index. Finland topped the list for the fifth consecutive year, followed by Norway and Denmark while Eritrea hit the bottom. The yearly index by Reporters Without Borders evaluates countries on…
5th November 2014 / By Reporters without Borders Freedom of information has made important progress in Brazil during the past 12 years under President Lula da Silva and (since 2011) his successor Dilma Rousseff, who was reelected on 26 October, winning a fourth consecutive term for the Workers’ Party (PT), but much remains to be…
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