How – if at all – is it possible to objectively measure media pluralism? The new Media Pluralism Monitor has developed a set of criteria sufficiently universal to be applied to all 27 different media landscapes in the European Union.
Continue Reading...“Is journalism so last century?”, asked British governance expert Andrew Puddephatt at the Global Forum on Freedom of Expression 2009.
Continue Reading...Journalists were portrayed as heroes, defending truth and an open public sphere under conditions of severe political oppression, persecution, and many times even at risk of torture and death. Yet journalists were also criticised for doing sloppy research, for being sensationalistic and sticking to a simplistic black-and-white approach.
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