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May 17, 2013 •
Pressefridom •
by Ido Liven
On a rather ordinary June day in 2010 a news item appeared on Ynet, Israel’s most popular news website. The headline read “Who Are You, Mister X? ‘The Prisoner With No Name And Identity’.” Quoting an unnamed...
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May 3, 2013 •
Mediepolitikk •
by Tina Bettels
Media regulators in Germany, Austria and Switzerland believe that they should be independent from the government, but do not necessarily want more interaction with the public, according to a wide ranging study into the attitudes of media...
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April 6, 2013 •
Mediepolitikk •
by Bianca Soldani
The proposal of a series of media reforms to increase diversity of opinion in Australia has sparked a mudslinging, name-calling free-for-all. The most controversial of the laws, a public interest media advocate, has drawn nothing short of...
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April 3, 2013 •
Etikk & Kvalitet, Mediepolitikk •
by Adela Halo
A new study from the Open Society Foundation for Albania (OSFA) provides an in-depth picture of the discourse between the main political leaders and newspapers in Albania. The OSFA report analyzes the discourse of two main political...
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March 13, 2013 •
Pressefridom •
by Philip Di Salvo
In occasion of the World Day Against Cyber Censorship, Reporters Without Borders (RWB) has released its annual report on Internet Freedom. It pays special attention to digital surveillance, the tracking of the online activities of single...
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March 8, 2013 •
Mediepolitikk •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Due to the four languages, the sophisticated federalism and the direct democracy, and – last not least – due to a booming advertising branch in the „island of wealth“, Switzerland’s media landscape has flourished and ripened to...
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March 4, 2013 •
Pressefridom •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
In a recent post we discussed the merits and limits of press freedom rankings. One of the rather sad facts is that newsrooms rarely ask how such rankings are created. Researchers seem to be more interested in this essential methodological...
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February 8, 2013 •
Pressefridom •
by Bianca Soldani
Deep skepticism surrounds the new media freedom reforms passed earlier this year in Turkmenistan. The first such law ever to be passed by the nation, it promises freedom of expression and a ban on all media censorship, but is generally...
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February 1, 2013 •
Pressefridom •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
“Reporters Without Borders“ has once again published its annual Press Freedom Index. According to the ranking, Finland remains the global “front runner,” followed by the Netherlands, Norway, and Luxembourg. In the European Union,...
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