The EC High Level Group on Media Freedom and Pluralism, which is fully independent, was established in October 2011 by Vice-President Neelie Kroes, and is chaired by the former President of Latvia, Professor Vaira...
Read MorePosted by chrysadag | Jan 14, 2013 | Commentaries |
By Tim Luckhurst Britain’s newspaper industry has responded to the Leveson Report with commendable speed and intelligence. Brian Leveson took hearings for eight months before he started to write. But journalists understand that...
Read MoreThe newest in a series of Reports by CFOM’s International Director William Horsley finds that the disturbing record of physical and legal attacks on media workers in many parts of Europe in the second half of 2012 spells severe...
Read MoreIranians are flocking in their millions to BBC Persia as the broadcaster that can be trusted to report their country honestly and impartially, despite crude attempts to block it and threaten its workers. That was the upbeat...
Read MorePosted by chrysadag | Dec 19, 2012 | Commentaries |
By Eric Barendt The Leveson Report provides a compelling case for radical reform of press law and regulation. Only the most hard-hearted of journalists, for whom in Paul McMullan’s words ‘[p]rivacy is for paedos…privacy is evil’...
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