3 May, 2018 / By europa-nu Lend more support to public service providers and investigative journalists – Create independent regulatory body to monitor and report threats against journalists – Propose EU rules to prevent gagging lawsuits EU member states should “create and maintain, in law and in practice, a safe and secure environment for journalists”,…
Oktober 6, 2017 / By Civil Georgia, Tbilisi Civil.ge spoke about the press freedom developments in Georgia and the region to OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Harlem Désir, who visited Tbilisi on October 2-4 and met with the country’s authorities, as well as the representatives of media and civil society organizations. My first question…
30 August, 2017 / By Viktor Orban, LSE Project Hungary has been experiencing significant constitutional and institutional changes in the last seven years as Viktor Orban and his ruling party Fidesz cemented their political power by capturing the constitutional court and other key institutions. In parallel to the political capture of democratic institutions, media ownership became more…
April 11, 2016 / By European Federation of Journalist The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) was invited by the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists &Democrats in the European Parliament to a seminar on Diversity in Media and Culture Versus Convergence on Thursday 7 of April. Ms Maria Joao Rodrigues, S&D Vice President and…
April 8, 2016 / By Roderick Flynn, Irish Examiner A European project looking at media pluralism has found that ownership of newspapers and broadcasting outlets is becoming concentrated in fewer hands, says Roderick Flynn THE extent to which media constitute a pluralistic public sphere has been an issue in Ireland for some decades. Concern has focused on…
April 4, 2016 / By Michael O’Regan The Irish Times Report calls for retrospective reform of competition law to restrict influence of individuals. Concentration of media ownership in Ireland poses a “high risk” to diversity of opinion, according to a report compiled by a Dublin City University lecturer. Fewer owners limit the opportunity for diversity of opinion and…
March 30, 2016 / By Teinteresa.es España es uno de los cinco países de la UE, junto a República Checa, Finlandia, Luxemburgo y Rumanía, donde la concentración en la propiedad de los medios de comunicación merece una catalogación de “riesgo alto”. Así lo refleja el informe ‘Monitorización del Pluralismo de los Medios en Europa’, que…
14 May 2015 / By Nelly Ognyanova and Orlin Spassov The condition of the media environment in Bulgaria makes it a special case. The country ranks lowest among European Union Member States in the World Press Freedom Index of Reporters without Borders for 2015 (106th place in the overall ranking). This trend shows no sign of improving, with…
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…
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).…
Observatory of Media Pluralism 