Bulgaria: media ownership in a “captured state” - Reports

A report on the fact-finding mission by ECPMF and OBCT on Bulgaria’s media ownership structures and their implications for media freedom

New digital threats to media pluralism in the information age - Reports

The increasing concentration of resources and the spreading of disinformation threaten quality information and media pluralism online. This essay, belonging to the Working Paper Series on 'Freedom and Pluralism of the Media, Society and Markets', focuses on economic, quality, and social threats, with the goal of examining dangers to pluralistic, quality information and finding responses to preserve media pluralism and a professional process of information production

CPDP 2019: The GDPR and the freedom of expression - A rocky relationship - HTML5 video

Art. 85 GDPR leaves most of the responsibility to reconcile the right to the protection of personal data pursuant to the GDPR with the right to freedom of expression and information (Art. 11 CFR) to the member states. However, many states did little to nothing to pass specific rules to relieve the mentioned addressees. Thus, has the situation for the freedom of expression fundamentally changed? To what extent do certain rules of the GDPR enable or require a media-friendly interpretation? Which member states fulfilled their obligations to pass rules under Art. 85 GDPR? Could the lack of such rules enable a misuse of Data Protection Law that could jeopardise media freedoms? 

De-Europeanization in the Balkans. Media freedom in post-Milošević Serbia - Academic Sources

This article applies case study analysis to Serbian media freedom in order to verify whether the media sector is undergoing a process of de-Europeanization while the country is advancing toward EU accession

Media freedom in Bulgaria - Article

The fourth of a series of thematic itineraries to explore the Resource Centre on Media Freedom through a curated aggregation of contents. The text has been kindly proof-read by Dr. Lada Price from Sheffield Hallam University - CFOM and AEJ - Bulgaria

Council of Europe Recommendation on media pluralism, transparency of media ownership and media literacy - Reports

The Council of Europe has issued guidelines to its 47 member states in order to promote media pluralism, transparency of media ownership and media literacy

Foreign media ownership in Europe Saturday 24 March 2018 - Infographic

This new fact-sheet focuses on legislation on foreign media ownership in EU member states, showing that 23 countries out of 28 do not impose any limit. Even where there is some kind of restriction ... Media ownership rules in Europe: a focus on EU member states' legislation  ... Media_ownership Media_pluralism Media_Law EU Member States ... A CMPF fact-sheet that highlights how only 5 EU member countries set limits to foreign capital in the media sector

NEWSOCRACY conference on media ownership in Europe: Investigating Media Ownership, best practices from Europe - HTML5 video

Video of the Session II of the Newsocracy conference on media ownership in Europe (Madrid, 30 January 2018): Investigating Media Ownership, best practices from Europe

Gender Equality in the EU’s Digital and Media Sectors - Reports

This briefing by the European Parliamentary Research Service (March 2018) provides updated background data showing the existing gender divide in the digital and media sectors across the European Union

Media in the EU - a euro|topics dataset - Datasets

A dynamic tool to search media outlets in the EU member countries developed by euro|topics