October 4, 2016 •
Media and Politics, Press Freedom, Recent •
by Vas Panagiotopoulos
Nikos Pappas, Greece’s minister of state, hopes to shatter the corrupt system of mutual interdependence of the country’s media, politicians and business elite. Nepotism and incapacity have prevented previous governments from adequately...
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September 12, 2016 •
Media and Politics, Recent, Research •
by Hannah Marsh
TV, radio, newspapers, and online media have historically provided society with a common foundation, ensuring the flow of information, offering an arena for debate – and a handful of other functions vital to democracy. But we live in...
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September 6, 2016 •
Media and Politics, Press Freedom, Recent •
by Clemens Bomsdorf
For a long time, Iceland was seen as a shining example of press freedom – too good to be true, perhaps. But more recently, the country’s politicians have been attempting to influence the media. The latest example came right from...
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August 18, 2016 •
Media and Politics, Press Freedom, Recent •
by EJO
Tajikistan’s internet providers have started to block online ‘anonymizers’, which allow users to access various banned news sites and social networks, the National Association of Independent Mass Media in Tajikistan reports. The move...
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August 5, 2016 •
Media and Politics, Press Freedom, Recent •
by Ceren Sozeri
A week before the recent coup attempt in Turkey a group of journalists launched a campaign to defend press freedom entitled “I am a journalist! Journalism is not a crime!”. Participating newspapers and online news portals...
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July 12, 2016 •
Business Models, Ethics and Quality, Recent •
by Vas Panagiotopoulos
On a late June morning in a hotel in central Athens, the award-winning journalist Yavuz Baydar is discussing the erosion of press freedom in Turkey. “The Panama Papers were completely ignored,” he shrugs. In the audience, there are...
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July 4, 2016 •
Ethics and Quality, Recent •
by EJO
The network of the European Journalism Observatory (EJO) is expanding into the Arab world. Together with the Media Development Centre (MDC) in Tunisia, the EJO has created an Arabic Journalism Observatory (AJO – www.ajo-ar.org). With a...
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June 15, 2016 •
Digital News, Media Economics, Recent •
by Caroline Lees
The 2016 Digital News Report, launched today by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, is the biggest ever and remains the most authoritative study of its kind. It is based on a survey of 50,000 online news consumers across 26...
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June 13, 2016 •
Business Models, Media Economics, Recent •
by Rrapo Zguri
Albania’s small population, combined with a high number of media outlets, have made the country especially vulnerable to the global economic crisis. The market is too small to survive the upheaval and over the last 12 months a number of...
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