On 15 and 16 October, 2009, the EJC hosted yet another conference in its Innovation series, titled “Innovations in Youth Media and Next Generation Classroom”, and I was kindly invited to moderate the Maastricht event. Here are some conclusions I drew.
Continue Reading...About 400 of the older guests (including myself) of the Gamescom trade fair convened on 20 August at a one-day Gamescom Congress to listen to politicians, regulators and academics trying to come to grips with the gaming phenomenon.
Continue Reading...Nicht weniger als eine innovative Grundlage für die Medienregulierung erwartete die Europäische Kommission von ihrem “Media Pluralism Monitor”. Das Ziel der Übung besteht darin, einen EU-weit einheitlichen Maßstab für das Konzept des Medienpluralismus zu entwickeln.
Continue Reading...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...On 16 June, 2008, the Centre for Arab and Muslim Media Research (CAMMRO) held its fouth annual conference at the King’s College in London. What became very clear during the day is how deeply the emergent transnational satellite television channels and the Internet affect politics, the public sphere, and the daily lives of the peoples concerned.
Continue Reading...When you look at it from the perspective of media pluralism and public value, there is no discernable difference between financial and strategic investors.
Continue Reading...As a new law is about to deliver to Public Broadcasters a golden opportunity to innovate and enhance the public’s attention and appreciation for their real and future value, they are trying to nip it in the bud.
Continue Reading...Early on, private TV seemed to hold a promise. Huge amounts of money flowing into it generated step-by-step more expensive and thus better-looking programmes. Observers got the impression that it was going to mature into a medium of real public value. But then came a shock.
Continue Reading...Ignoring the impact of private equity on media companies would turn a blind eye on the effects for the general economy and for society. A company that pays corporate income taxes, that creates jobs and that is not overwhelmed with debt is much more of a public asset than a business that goes to great lengths to make an operative profit which is, in fact, consumed by debt service.
Continue Reading...Harry Hampson, a banker at JPMorgan, explains why international investors see Germany as a lucrative media market despite a number of spectacular business failures during the last two decades
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