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Michael Starks is an Associate of the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy at Oxford University and author of ‘The Digital Television Revolution’ whose main professional career was with the BBC. Here he argues that the separate policy issue debates in the BBC Charter Review process mask the core question of whether the BBC remains an inclusive public service […]
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Media Policy Project
Sharon White, Chief Executive of Ofcom, spoke at the LSE on 7 October 2015 on the impact of consolidation on consumers in the communications markets, and the regulation of oligopolies. Her speech is reproduced below. Good evening. I am delighted to be here tonight. Many thanks to Damian for hosting at such a fantastic venue as the LSE. I’m afraid […]
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Media Policy Project
As an input into the Ofcom strategic review of digital communications, Plum Consulting prepared a study for BT on outcomes and policy in the UK. Brian Williamson, partner at Plum, outlines the main findings. In the UK questions are being asked about progress in delivering on the promise of a networked society, whilst in Brussels the European Commission has […]
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Media Policy Project
On the ninth anniversary of the death of Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, today called on the government of the Russian Federation to end impunity for crimes committed against journalists
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
In the following post, Diana Dimitrova of the KU Leuven Centre for IT & IP Law, discusses the implications of the Court of Justice of the European Union’s (ECJ) ruling that the Safe Harbour scheme is invalid, and looks at the powers of national supervisory authorities in ensuring compliance with the rights to privacy and data protection. About the case […]
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Media Policy Project
Today, the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) declared that the Safe Harbour agreement which allowed the movement of digital data between the EU and the US was invalid. The Court was ruling in a case brought by Max Schrems, an Austrian student and privacy campaigner who, in the wake of the Snowden revelations of mass surveillance, contested […]
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Media Policy Project
Monthly report on acts of intimidation, created by the European Center for Press and Media Freedom of Leipzig (ECPMF) with the support of the European Union Even this summer acts of intimidation against journalists did not go on vacation. After the eleven threats of August, twenty more occurred in September with 40 journalists being targeted,
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Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi is one of the winners of the 2014 Prize for Freedom and Future of the Media, awarded by the Media Foundation of the Sparkasse Leipzig. Panahi is not allowed to give interviews, make films, write screenplays or leave the country since he was sentenced to six years imprisonment for propaganda against the government.
So Jafar Panahi’s representative in Germany Nooshafarin Doostri-Lübbe answers ECPMF’s questions.
Jafar Panahi has to live under restrictions imposed after his court case. What are those restrictions?
The sentence: six years imprisonment (still continues), six years forbidden to make films, six years forbidden to write…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Transparency of public service media
The EBUs Media Intelligence Service (MIS) has created a framework to help public service media (PSM) measure organizational transparency and build a more trusting relationship with audiences. The framework includes a report, freely available, which contains why and how the 38 indicators were selected. On top of this report, a self-assessment tool exclusively available for EBU Members has been developed.
Download the report from here.…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Ross Biggam, Director General of the Association of Commercial Television in Europe, explains that he is among the few hundred people around the EU, predominantly in Brussels’ EU quarter, who were last week putting the finishing touches to responses to the Audiovisual Media Services Directive consultation. He was drafting a response on behalf of European commercial broadcasters, but here offers some […]
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Media Policy Project
