Category: Policy, Law & Regulation

• Gezi Park Protests Push Turkey’s Media into the Spotlight (Updated)

  By now, you’ll have heard – perhaps via international media, or on Twitter or Facebook – about the protests that started in defence of one of Istanbul’s last remaining green spaces, and have now, in response to heavy-handed policing and broader worries about democratic rights, spread across many cities in Turkey.  I’ve been following the torrent of…

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  01/06/2013

  Policy, Law & Regulation

  #gezipark, censorship, demokrasi, feature, featured, gazetecilik, iyi yönetişim, media policy, media reform, mediapolicy.org, medya politikası, Press freedom, protest, report, research, self-censorship, Turkey, turkiye, twitter, yayın

• Somalia Conference: promises of action on media freedom, safety of journalists

  “We agreed on the important role a free and independent media should play in Somalia, and welcomed the Federal Government’s commitment to investigate and prosecute those responsible for the killing of journalists, and to promote press freedom.” (Somalia Conference 2013: Official Communiqué at GOV.UK.) Yesterday’s conference communiqué was unambiguous on the need to protect the…

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  08/05/2013

  Policy, Law & Regulation

  africa, featured, Horn of Africa, Impunity, journalists safety, Media Law, mediapolicy.org, politics, Press freedom, report, Somalia, UK

• The mobile web and press freedom

  Last month, the Global Network Initiative (GNI) – a multi-stakeholder coalition of ICT companies, civil society organisations, investors and academics – signed a cooperation agreement with another body called Industry Dialogue, or, to give it its full name, Telecommunications Industry Dialogue on Freedom of Expression and Privacy. Why should journalism and media policy people care about this? Two reasons… First,…

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  24/04/2013

  Policy, Law & Regulation

  Burma, Citizen Media, digital divide, Human rights, ICTs, leapfrogging, Media Consumption, mediapolicy.org, mobiles, myanmar, telecoms

• Beppe Grillo: Italian population living in a “gigantic ‘Truman Show’”

  So the long-standing debate about the independence of Italy’s public broadcaster, RAI – addressed in Mapping Digital Media: Italy, and by the Open Media Coalition, Italy’s media reform movement – has now received the Grillo treatment. Italian comedian Beppe Grillo last week accelerated debate in Italy about the independence of broadcast media and journalism from…

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  09/04/2013

  Media, Policy, Law & Regulation

  #raisenzapartite, beppe grillo, Broadcasting, Italy, mediapolicy.org, Ownership, Public Media, RAI

• Consultation Paper on Issues relating to Media Ownership in India: Written comments on the consultation paper are invited from the stakeholders by 8th March 2013 and countercomments, if any, by 15th March 2013. Consultation Paper : Telecom Regulatory Authority of India – have your say by 8th March 2013

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  20/02/2013

  Clippings, News, Policy, Law & Regulation

  consultation, india, media ownership, Regulation