by Jane Whyatt and Nora Wehofsits
Europe’s media freedom campaigners have sounded a warning over the state of Irish media. At the ECPMF’s Dublin debate #newsocracy2, Dr. Roderick Flynn (Dublin City University) outlined the high-risk factors: abuse of repressive libel laws, concentration of media ownership, and lack of access for minorities to mainstream media.
#Newsocracy2 took place in Dublin, Ireland, and bred productive debate. Photo: ECPMF
There is a lack of regulatory safeguards for journalists, not enough political independence and a high risk of concentration when it comes to market plurality, Flynn said in his keynote speech, quoting from his study of…
