7 August, 2018 / By Rachel Withers, Slate Voice assistants may be revolutionizing access to news, but they’re not exactly revolutionizing variety. If the 2016 election made one thing clear, it’s that people in this country are getting their news from very different sources. But with the growing popularity of smart speaker-delivered morning briefings,…
26 July, 2019 / By Ben Millington, Patrick Martin and Kate Webber, ABC Concerns have been raised about the impact the Fairfax-Nine merger will have on regional newspapers and the diversity of news coverage across Australia. Fairfax and Nine on Thursday announced a $4 billion merger that would create in integrated media giant across television,…
25 July, 2018 / By Zeze Ballah, The Bush Chicken MONROVIA, Montserrado – Reporters Without Borders, an international non-profit, non-governmental organization that promotes the freedom of the press, says that the first six months of President George Weah’s presidency have been marked by a series of verbal attacks on journalists in country. In a press…
24 July, 2018 / By El nuevo diario EL NUEVO DIARIO, SANTO DOMINGO.-Una experta mexicana advirtió que la Ley sobre libertad de Expresión y medios de República Dominicana es deficiente y arcaica, al exponer en el panel “Ley de Medios: Buenas prácticas a nivel regional y su relevancia en el país”, organizado por la Fundación…
23 July, 2018 / By Fanny Meneses, Kaosenlared En estos días han sido noticia las amenazas hechas contra algunos periodistas que trabajan o publican en grandes medios colombianos, como María Jimena Duzán. Grave llamado de atención que tuvo mucha más exposición que los asesinatos, por ejemplo, de los comunicadores indígenas Eider Arley Campo Hurtado (marzo de 2018)…
16 July, 2018 / By Liz Braun, torontosun.com The Finnish people are the coolest. To welcome Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin and help them acclimate during meetings in Helsinki, the largest newspaper in all the Nordic countries has paved the route from the airport to the summit with special billboards — reminding both leaders they…
12 July, 2018 / By Diarioregistrado El titular del Sistema de Medios Públicos, Hernán Lombardi, y el presidente de Télam, Rodolfo Pousám, se presentaron este miércoles en la Cámara de Diputados para ser interrogado a raíz de los despidos masivos en la agencia estatal. Según publica Diario Popular, el funcionario ingresó a la sala del anexo de la Cámara…
11 July, 2018 / By Luis Oz, El Mundo Si todavía queda alguien con la esperanza de que el golpe fallido de 2017 contra la democracia española en Cataluña fracasó, le invito a seguir en Twitter a @jordialapreso @KRLS @QuimTorraiPla o a sus ejércitos de repicadores y fieles seguidores. En la defensa de la legalidad…
10 July, 2018 / By Ebu The EBU welcomed today’s European Parliament vote that will update existing must-carry rules and provide for a wider choice of free-to-air radio content while on the move. The vote in the European Parliament’s Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) formally endorsed a political deal in trilogue on a…
9 July, 2018 / By OSCE.ORG The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Harlem Désir, today expressed his concern regarding the law decree issued in Turkey on 8 July, which closed down three newspapers and one TV station, in a letter to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu. “I call on…
29, June, 2018 / By The Objective Los partidos debaten estos días el nombramiento de los nuevos consejeros de RTVE, tras un decreto ley del gobierno que cesó a los anteriores. El decreto también acabó con un pacto entre PP y Ciudadanos para elegir a los consejeros. En él se asignaban seis consejeros para el…
28 June, 2018 / By Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg (This is the fifth of a series of columns on economic growth and the challenges to democracy. Read the other parts here: The Democracy Dividend: Faster Growth; Hardliners Learn That Democracy Can Pay Off; Central Bankers Shouldn’t Have to Rescue Democracy; Democracy’s Dividend Is the Right Kind of Growth.) According to the Economist…
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