To draw insights for future policy-making in this field, this panel will explore, from a comparative perspective, several aspects contained in the concept of media pluralism and evaluate policies designed to ensure and safeguard the favourable conditions. Read More …
Mária Žuffová discusses the role of freedom of information (FOI) laws in journalism. By surveying journalists, interviewing activists and civil servants, and submitting FOI requests to government ministries she identifies a number of problems with the process. Journalists reported that their requests were often refused on questionable grounds, delayed, or not responded to at all. One of the consequences of this is that journalists might choose to use loopholes in the law in order to be able to publish stories that are in the public interest. Read More …
Information as a public good: report of the UNESCO Europe Forum (30 April 2021) to the “Voices from regions” plenary session of the UNESCO World Press Freedom Day 2021 conference (3 May 2021). Read More …
By Vaclav Štětka *The following text is from an intervention Read More …
By Damian Tambini UNESCO in common with other bodies that Read More …
A recent technical report published by the European University Institute’s Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom (CMPF) looked at the media landscapes of a set of EU member states to understand what happened to their media markets during the first wave of the pandemic. Read More …
By Maria Luisa Stasi In December 2020, the European Commission Read More …
By Beata Klimkiewicz[1] What would the news media environment look Read More …
As part of the 2020 Online School for Journalists and Media Practitioners participants were askerd to submit their proposals for a data journlaism/visualisation project based on the skills they acquired during the 5 week long school. Read More …
This year, due to the pandemic, the CMPF’s Summer School Read More …
