Countering Fake News in the “Emotional Democracy”
Many European countries are facing spring elections amid growing concerns regarding alleged Russian propaganda. Read More …
Category: Discussion Series
Freedom of Expression in the Digital Age – a provocation on autonomy, algorithms and curiosity
The central idea behind the notion of deliberative democracy is exercising our freedom of expression… Read More …
Recommendations on Media Accessibility launched from key stakeholders in the field
In October, the EU-funded Media Accessibility Platform (MAP)* project held its first international conference in Vigo, Spain. Read More …
Challenges facing the development of Arab investigative journalism
Investigative journalism is facing multiple challenges in addition to funding and political limitations across both the developed and developing world. Read More …
Justice for Daphne Caruana Galizia
The Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom (CMPF) strongly condemns and is deeply shocked by the murder of the Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. Read More …
Revising the advertising and product placement rules in the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD): an ‘optimal’ outcome for industry and consumers?
The Television Without Frontiers Directive (‘TWFD’) was designed to facilitate the free movement of broadcasting services across Europe by introducing a ‘one stop regulatory shop’ based on regulation by the ‘country of origin.’ Read More …
AVMS Review and Media Regulator’s Independence: The Dancing Procession of Echternach?
Indeed, in its legislative proposal amending the Audiovisual Media Services (AVMS) Directive of May 25, 2016, the European Commission puts a significant change to the current Article 30, which refers to media regulators, on the table. Read More …
Media Pluralism Monitor: Impediments to Access to Information in Europe (WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY 2016)
Today is the World Press Freedom Day. It is also the 250th anniversary of the world’s first freedom of information law. Freedom of expression and the right of access to information are fundamental conditions in democratic societies. Read More …
Hungarian Authorities Constantly Infringe the Freedom of the Press
In the last few months Hungarian law enforcement authorities infringed freedom of the press by several different measures taken against journalists. Read More …
The Ethics of Sharing in the Social Media Era
The risk of trivializing horror, through the publication of ‘strong’ content, exists. We should, at least, be aware of it. In the case of the tragedy which happened off the Turkish coast, there are differences between the sharing on social media and the decision of the media to publish or not publish the images. Read More …