26 June 2015 / By Chris Johnstone The Czech prime minister’s comments on media pluralism and ownership came in a meeting with European public broadcasting bosses as their grouping, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), meets in Prague for its strategy setting general assembly. Bohuslav Sobotka said that the Czech media market should be subject to stepped…
19 June 2015 / By Alison O’Connor The general lack of reaction to the Government’s new media-merger guidelines, which were published last week, says a lot. In the midst of a massive national controversy about the concentration of media ownership and censorship, Alex White, the communications minister, finally publishes the new rules for governing this…
9 june 2015 / By Fiach Kelly New media mergers guidelines which say it is “undesirable” for one person or business to hold excessive influence in the industry are set to be passed by Cabinet on Tuesday. Minister for Communications Alex White is expected to publish the guidelines once they have been passed by Ministers…
4 June 2015 / By Laura Slattery, Irish Times Government guidelines designed to protect pluralism have finally been set In the frenetic, fast-evolving world of media, nothing appears to move more slowly than the laws and regulations that govern it. Minister for Communications Alex White, due to present final guidelines for the new media merger…
2 June 2015 / By Hurriyet Daily News The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) called the Turkish government on May 31 ‘to urgently recognize the importance of plural voices within the media and to provide the conditions for independent sources of information’ as the country is only a week ahead of critical…
29 May 2015 / By Maria Kyriakidou There is perhaps no other field that better illustrates how deeply ingrained clientelism is in Greek political culture than the media sector. Politicians, media and business have long been operating as a ‘triangle of power’, where private and political interests are intrinsically intertwined and where the media function as…
16 May 2015 / Elsa Buchanan. International Business Times UK A day after an attempted coup in Burundi failed, the country has descended into a communications “blackout”, as all but one media have been shut down and opposition leaders say they are fearing a post-coup repression. Following weeks of protest, the Burundian army announced a coup on 13…
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…
7 May 2013 / By Media Policy Project Blog The three main UK political parties – the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats and Labour – have set out their policy priorities for the media & telecoms sectors in their party manifestos. A recent report from Enders Analysis highlights areas of convergence and divergence between them in…
9 May 2015 / By Salvador Muñoz Hace pocos días nos enteramos del cierre del departamento de prensa y de varios programas de La Red lo que es una noticia lamentable pues además de implicar una serie de despidos a profesionales y equipos técnicos del canal, significa una nueva pérdida para el cada vez más…
5 April 2015 / By Sputnik News The Occupy Democracy demonstrations underway in London and other UK cities are into their fifth day on Tuesday, which will be devoted to demands for democratic reform of the media, the group’s website said. The action in central London is set to start at 12 p.m. (11:00 GMT) with a rally involving…
5 April 2015 / By Euroactive.com SPECIAL REPORT / The news industry is struggling with a shift to mobile, getting scant revenues as more readers turn to smartphones and tablets for information, according to new research published in April. These are among the findings of the latest Pew Research Center’s State of the News Media…
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