March 6, 2017/ By Civil Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili proposed establishment of the Media Ombudsman’s Office tasked to monitor the country’s media environment and its development. Commenting the decision of the European Court of Human Rights to suspend the enforcement of the Supreme Court’s March 2 decision, which reinstated the ownership rights of Rustavi…
March 3, 2017/ By Georgia Today TBILISI – Grand Chamber of the Supreme Court of Georgia, which is tasked to solve the most complex cases, made the final decision over the high-profile Rustavi 2 TV dispute, granting the assets of the broadcaster to its former owner, Kibar Khalvashi. Khalvashi was a co-owner of Rustavi 2…
March 3, 2017/ By Civil The Supreme Court of Georgia, the country’s highest court of appeal, ruled on March 2 against the current owners of Rustavi 2 TV, the country’s most-watched private television broadcaster, granting the ownership rights to Kibar Khalvashi, who co-owned the channel a decade ago and whose claims many see as orchestrated…
March 3, 2017/ By El Periódico Los partidos de la oposición han vuelto a arremeter este viernes, 3 de marzo contra la falta de pluralismo en los medios públicos de Catalunya. Las criticas contra la tele autonómica se han realizado en el Parlament, durante la comparecencia de Roger Loppacher, presidente del Consell de l’Audiovisual de Catalunya (CAC),…
February 7, 2017/ By The Irish Time The business model for local newspapers is “broken” and the future of Celtic Media’s seven titles is best protected by being part of a larger company, its chief executive Frank Mulrennan has told an Oireachtas committee. “The reality is we are faced with a broken business model for…
February 7, 2017/ By DW En visita a Polonia, canciller alemana abogó ante su homóloga, Beata Szydlo, por el pluralismo, la independencia de la prensa y el poder judicial. Bruselas investiga a Varsovia por “vulneraciones al Estado de derecho”. Merkel aboga en Varsovia por pluralismo e independencia de medios y JusticiaLa líder alemana destacó…
December 21, 2016 / By American Abroad Staff Freedom of the press is a right ingrained in Americans. In Russia, press freedoms can’t be taken for granted. According to Reporters Without Borders, in 2016 Russia ranked 148 out of 180 nations in terms of press freedom. The US was No. 41. In Russia, while some…
November 30, 2016/ By Periodistas Los resultados del Eurobarómetro que analiza el pluralismo de los medios y la democracia en Europa publicado en noviembre de 2016 muestran un panorama mixto de pluralismo y libertad de los medios en toda la Unión Europea, porque se constata que existe variedad de puntos de vista y opiniones, pero la mayoría…
November 24, 2016/ By RT If an EU resolution against the Russian media is implemented, Moscow will take retaliatory measures, Russia’s Foreign Ministry has stated. “We hope that the resolution will not entail practical steps on curbing the work of the Russian media,” the Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson Maria Zakharova told journalists at a briefing. “There…
November 24, 2016/ By Tass The resolution adopted by the European Parliament on combating other countries’ propaganda, including Russia, serves as evidence of the crisis of the Western system of values, Konstantin Kosachev, chairman of the Russian Federation Council’s International Affairs Committee, wrote on his blog. “Extreme demonization of Russia in this document has its…
November 21, 2016/ By Bulawayo MISA – Zimbabwe on November 18, 2016, simultaneously launched its African Media Barometer (Zimbabwe 2015) and 2016 Transparency Assessment research reports at Dema shopping centre in Seke during a ceremony attended by 82 people. Seke is a parliamentary constituency within the Seke District of the Mashonaland East Province of Zimbabwe.…
November 21, 2016/ By Latin American Herald Tribune BRUSSELS – Over half of Europeans consider their national media outlets not free from political or commercial pressure, according to a European Commission report published on Thursday. An EC report titled “2016 Eurobarometer Survey on Media Pluralism and Democracy” found that 57 percent of Europeans held this…
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