On 29 September 2012, in a speech to the Saudi Broadcasting Forum in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the BBC’s Head of Global News Peter Horrocks voiced his urgent concerns about the “unprecedented threat” to independent news from around the world which arose, he said, from...
In recent months a number of high profile dismissals have been made at RTVE, the body which manages public TV and radio services in Spain. This follows criticism from the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) and other left-wing parties in the country over the...
By Scott Eldridge II Through this paper, Eldridge looks at a number of challenges that both WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, confront in gaining public support to defend the activities carried out by the whistleblower website. Read more: - Paper 4....
by Andrés Cañizalez Cañizalez, director of the Venezuelan chapter of the Press and Society Institute (IPYS), examines in the paper the links between media freedom and poverty, and the way mass media should work to decrease social inequalities. In...
It is high time journalists, media owners and editors stopped being passive in the face of the continuing slaughter and silencing of journalists. They should demand protection for their colleagues who face violence and suppression. CFOM International Director William...
By James Crossley, University of Sheffield On the BBC website, Paul Mason, the regularly insightful Newsnight reporter, has attempted to understand the recent phone hacking scandal, and the broader political crises surrounding it, through a critique of Edward Herman...
By Donald Trelford THE phrase, “throwing out the baby with the bath water,” has been used several times lately about the proposed reform of press regulation. There seems to be a general belief, certainly among MPs, that the phone-hacking scandal resulted from the...
By Jock Gallagher In more recent years, I’ve had the persona of a respectable company director (MD of my own communications company, no less). I’ve given media advice to major institutions and key political figures. I served for quarter of a century in the middle...