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Terror Law Interpretations Shape Future for Turkish Journalists
Posted by Michael Wise in Press Freedom on April 22, 2012
Journalists in Turkey face increasing harassment and imprisonment due to a handful of loosely interpreted anti-terrorism laws.
As publicity of the intimidation continues, convincing the Turkish government to enact reforms proves to be a delicate task. A new report published early this month by the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) reveals the number of working journalists imprisoned in Turkey has nearly doubled in the past year, bringing the total to 95.
The report, published in conjunction with Reporters Without Borders, details how Turkey has become one of the world’s worst offenders when it comes to jailing journalists. According to the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović, the number of imprisoned journalists raises serious questions about the level of free Read the rest of this entry »
MEDIADEM Project Moves into Final Year
Posted by Michael Wise in Media Policy on February 9, 2012
As MEDIADEM authors continue plowing through their research, the scope of the €2.65 million media policy project takes shape.
In a thorough examination, project director Evangelia Psychogiopoulou from the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIMEP) in Athens, Greece, leads a research group intent on determining whether European media policy is fueling or inhibiting a free and independent media system.
MEDIADEM’s objective is to pinpoint and develop media policies that are tailored to the unique fluctuations occurring across the European media landscape. The research project features collaborations from 14 universities in 12 EU countries and two candidate countries and is funded by the European Commission’s 7th Framework Programme for Research as part of the Citizen in the European Union grant agreement. The considerable research undertaking began in April 2010 and will conclude through March 2013. Read the rest of this entry »
The EU, its Neighbours and the Journalism Revolution
Posted by Eric Karstens in Ethics & Quality, Press Freedom on November 6, 2011
*Article courtesy of the European Journalism Centre
Among many others, one of the challenges faced by post-revolutionary countries concerns journalism and the media.
A free, pluralistic, and responsible media is a prerequisite for a functioning democracy, and requires, in turn, a base of qualified contributors – professional journalists and citizen stakeholders alike. Yet to achieve this is anything but simple.
At the recent Brussels conference Media Futures – Policy, Politics and Power, organised by the European Neighbourhood Journalism Network (ENJN), it was Polish journalist and civil rights activist Konstanty Gebert who drove this point home most emphatically. He warned that the transition to a free and democratic media system may be almost as difficult for revolutionaries themselves as it usually turns out to be for the former mouthpieces of defunct authoritarian regimes.
Flipping the switch
“We all have lived in countries which had official journalism that looked like the real thing, the way a stuffed bird might look like a real bird – except it can’t fly,” Gebert said. Irrespective of their individual degree of guilt and depth of Read the rest of this entry »
Piracy Protection
Posted by Kate Nacy in Ethics & Quality on December 21, 2010
EU and US join forces, launch website, battle piracy.
The new site – the Transatlantic IPR Portal – was devised to help small software and hardware developers protect their intellectual property from counterfeiters. According to the European Commission, international trade in counterfeit and pirated products is approaching an enormous $250 billion annually, and figures of that magnitude Read the rest of this entry »
Europe Gets the Stink Eye
Posted by Kate Nacy in Ethics & Quality, Media Policy, Press Freedom on October 25, 2010
Paris-based NGO Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontières) releases Press Freedom Index 2010.
Last year was a particularly grim one for journalists, as the number of murdered reporters rose 26 percent, while violence against journalists increased by a third. This year the Press Freedom Index casts a glaring eye on Europe, noting particular concern about the deteriorating press freedom situation in the European Union, as 2010 saw several EU countries take a dive in ranking.
According to Reporters Without Borders secretary general Jean-François Julliard, “It is disturbing to see several European Union member countries continuing to fall in the index. If it does not pull itself together, the European Union risks losing its position as world leader in respect for human rights. And if that were to happen, how could it be convincing when it asked authoritarian regimes to make improvements? There is an urgent need for the European countries to recover their exemplary status.” Read the rest of this entry »
A Public Good in Europe?
Posted by Kate Nacy in Media Economics, Media Policy on April 22, 2010
European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) meets in Istanbul, agrees to push Brussels.
The annual EFJ meeting in Istanbul, drawing journalists from 24 countries, incited plans to encourage Brussels to respond to the European media crisis by persuading EU member states to augment the sector. Citing governmental support for theaters and museums in the spirit of reinforcing cultural pluralism, the preservation of journalism was called on for the sake of protecting “information pluralism.” Concerns among members focus largely on how to fund journalism with advertisers scattering like flies. The unions hope to devise a series of proposals geared toward developing a shared, EU-approach to media.
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