Piden que grandes de internet paguen por contenidos producidos por medios

28 August, 2018 / By EFE, caracol.com.co Más de un centenar de reporteros  europeos instaron hoy al Parlamento Europeo a aprobar una directiva que obligue a las grandes plataformas de internet a pagar por usar los contenidos e informaciones producidos por medios de comunicación. En una tribuna firmada por el delegado de la agencia francesa AFP en Bagdad, Sammy Ketz, y suscrita por 103 reporteros, los periodistas denuncian que el futuro…

Is Getting Our News From Smart Speakers a Threat to Media Diversity?

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,…

Reporters Without Borders Says Weah’s Presidency Marked by Attacks on Journalists

25 July, 2018 / By Zeze Ballah, The Bush Chicken MONROVIA, Montserrado – Reporters Without Borders, an international non-profit, non-governmental organization that promotes the freedom of the press, says that the first six months of President George Weah’s presidency have been marked by a series of verbal attacks on journalists in country. In a press…

Colombia. Los carteles mediáticos

23 July, 2018 / By Fanny Meneses, Kaosenlared En estos días han sido noticia las amenazas hechas contra algunos periodistas que trabajan o publican en grandes medios colombianos, como María Jimena Duzán. Grave llamado de atención que tuvo mucha más exposición que los asesinatos, por ejemplo, de los comunicadores indígenas Eider Arley Campo Hurtado (marzo de 2018)…

Trump and Putin: Nordic media will not be bullied

16 July, 2018 / By Liz Braun, torontosun.com The Finnish people are the coolest. To welcome Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin and help them acclimate during meetings in Helsinki, the largest newspaper in all the Nordic countries has paved the route from the airport to the summit with special billboards — reminding both leaders they…

Hernán Lombardi justificó los despidos en la agencia nacional de Télam

12 July, 2018 / By Diarioregistrado   El titular del Sistema de Medios Públicos, Hernán Lombardi, y el presidente de Télam, Rodolfo Pousám, se presentaron este miércoles en la Cámara de Diputados para ser interrogado a raíz de los despidos masivos en la agencia estatal. Según publica Diario Popular, el funcionario ingresó a la sala del anexo de la Cámara…

OSCE media freedom representative concerned over closure of three newspapers and one TV station in Turkey, calls on authorities to restore media pluralism

9 July, 2018 / By OSCE.ORG The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Harlem Désir, today expressed his concern regarding the law decree issued in Turkey on 8 July, which closed down three newspapers and one TV station, in a letter to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu. “I call on…