1 May 2015 / By http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/ Every day journalists risk their lives to help inform us. Last year alone 66 journalists were killed, 119 kidnapped, 178 arrested and more 1800 of them attacked of threatened. Ahead of World Press Freedom Day on 3 May, we created an infographic based on the World Press Freedom Index put…
29 April 2015 / By OSCE.org The decision to reopen public service broadcaster ERT is a long awaited and important step to protect media pluralism in Greece, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović said today. ”The decision of the Greek Parliament to reopen ERT is of great importance and I warmly welcome…
10 March 2015 / By William Horsley Media policy is a tough challenge facing the new Commission, writes William Horsley. He advocates greater guarantees against interference, and also new business models. William Horsley is a former BBC correspondent, media freedom representative of the Association of European Journalists (AEJ) and member of its working group ‘European strategy…
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…
28 January 2015 / By Periodistas en espanol.com La concentración en la propiedad de los medios de comunicación es la amenaza más extendida en Europa para el pluralismo de los medios y la información, según un estudio del Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom (CMPF), del Instituto de la Universidad Europea de Florencia (Italia).…
4 January 2014 / By Nils Muižnieks New Europe Online While thugs threaten journalists safety, courtrooms are used to muzzle them My Office received an email from prominent Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova. She pleaded for the case of a fellow Azerbaijani journalist sentenced to eight years in prison on trumped up charges. A few hours later,…
15 December, 2014 / By European Parliament News Mr Schulz opened the December session with a reminder that freedom of the press and media pluralism are fundamental EU values. We take our negotiations with Turkey as a candidate country very seriously, he said, and must therefore point to problems as well as to progress. President…
18th November 2014 / By Peter Barron & Simon Morrison In this latest post in our series on the role of digital intermediaries and media plurality, Peter Barron, Google’s head of communications for Europe, Middle East and Africa, and his colleague Simon Morrison, Public Policy Manager, argue that the Internet and digital technologies have only…
12th October 2014 / By Turkish Media Wach Freedom and pluralism of the media are key issues potential candidate states are being asked to take into account in order to be a part of the European Union, Maja Kocijancic, a spokesperson for the European Commission, said when asked to evaluate an expanding media accreditation ban…
October 28, 2014 / Panorama am Secretary General of the international human rights organization “Reporters without Borders” Christophe Deloire wrote an open letter to the head of the French government calling to raise the issue of human rights violations in the country, the release of imprisoned journalists and bloggers, as well as to remind the…
June 30, 2014 / www.worldbank.org Communications experts analyze Latin American media law in the context of the region’s digital revolution This article most likely arrived to you by recommendation of Facebook and/or Twitter, which makes you part of the growing legion of global users —250 million of them Latin America— who use the web and social…
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