26 November 2015 / By Ghana Web A former director of the School of Information and Communication Studies of the University of Ghana has said a spike in the number of radio stations across Ghana has, in reality, not translated into media pluralism. Prof Audrey Gadzekpo said the liberalisation of the media in Ghana since…
16 de noviembre 2015 / By Agenda.de The United States (US) has welcomed the recent developments regarding the Tbilisi-based Rustavi 2 private broadcasting company and said they would allow the appeals processes to move forward and preserve media pluralism in Georgia. The US also praised Georgia for its recent reforms which contributed to a stronger…
12 November 2015 / By Tamar Svanidze. Georgia Today Georgia has been elected a member of the Human Rights Council for 2016-2018. At the same time, 71 Member States of the United Nations have reviewed and given recommendations on the human rights conditions in Georgia. At the session of the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic…
28 October 2015 / By Dan Alexe. All main political groups of the European Parliament voiced concern on Thursday 29 October over an ownership dispute involving Georgia’s biggest independent TV company, Rustavi 2, and said it could harm media freedom. A court in Tbilisi earlier this month ordered a seizure of shares in the company that owns…
2 November 2015 / By Georgia Today Georgia’s ambassador to the United States, Archil Gegeshidze, sent a letter to The Washington Post editorial board titled, “Democracy and media pluralism thrive in Georgia.” The letter is a response to the October 27th article by the Washington Post, “A seizure of a popular TV station would be…
30 October 2015 / By Daily News Media freedom, pluralism and media playing the field for candidates were areas which raised concerns ahead of Turkey’s Nov. 1 elections, according to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s (OSCE) election observation leaders, who spoke after their multi-city visit. The OSCE special coordinator for observation of…
29 October 2015 / By Diplomatic Intelligence.eu Police raiding offices of media outlets, detaining journalists, and using tear gas and water cannons, is unacceptable, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović said Wednesday. “This morning’s raid by the police on the television channels Kanaltürk and Bugün TV is a clear obstruction of media…
26 October 2015 / By Washington Post SINCE A 2012 election led to a peaceful transfer of power rarely seen in former Soviet Eurasia, the Caucasian nation of Georgia has skirted the edges of democratic norms. A new government led by a populist billionaire tried to prosecute the election losers, including former president Mikheil Saakashvili, and…
17 October 2015 / By Journalism in the Americas Blog Journalists and press advocates have created another project to study concentration of media ownership in Colombia. They found low transparency, high ownership concentration and links between media owners and the political world, among other insights. Media Ownership Monitor (MOM), a project between the German branch of…
15 October 2015 / By Tercera Información.es Coordinadora de Advocacy del Observatorio Latinoamericano de Regulación, Medios y Convergencia (OBSERVACOM) ha expresado en el seminario “Periodismo y concentración Mediática”, organizado por la Fundación Friedrich Ebert Stiftung que la concentración de los medios de comunicación “debe ser una tarea pendiente para indagar y hacer visible en procura…
27 September 2015 / By Petra Caruana Dingli Transport Minister Joe Mizzi plummeted to new depths last week, like some deep-water diver trying to break the record for new limits. He held an official press conference and decided to answer questions put to him by everyone except the journalist from the media outlet owned by…
24 September 2015 / By Yisrael Medad and Eli Pollack One of the strong messages the Israeli media has sought to make to those who would, they claim, interfere with and restrain their freedom during the past year was the need for media pluralism. This was the reason given for allowing Channel 10 to continue…
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