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Do digital media favor the creation of a European public sphere ?
Intranet, social networks, blogging and micro-blogging… The digital media distinguish themselves by the fast and transnational dissemination of information. European information struggles to carve out a place in traditional media. Web 2.0 provides it a new scope …
How to embody European Union in the Media?
For a majority of us, European Union is like a UFO: someone told us it exists but we can’t really visualise… Find our way in the European machine actually asks for pedagogy efforts from journalists.
To make their …
How to reconnect European correspondents to their local newsroom?
In many cases, correspondents find themselves isolated from their national and regional newsrooms. They suffer from a lack of recognition and meet the greatest difficulties to convince editors of the importance of their work. Information is …
Should Europe be part of the schoolteachers’ training?
European affairs is more than a journalists’ interest. It is about the daily-life of every citizens. Europeans should be able to understand what is at stake. To that end they need to know how the EU …
Public broadcasters on the Web: for or against?
In the White paper in support of a civic and social European journalism, we regret the current situation of European Public service media, caught up in a twin struggle for their economic and institutional independence. Among other proposals, …
Should the coverage of European affairs become a part of public broadcasters’ missions?
The numbers of Brussels correspondents are freefalling and the coverage of international news and politics is increasingly limited in European media.
Public broadcasters, in every Member State, have a set of obligations to fulfil. Moreover they aim at …
Should media pluralism be legally guaranteed?
Freedom and pluralism of the media are already included in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. However, the Charter merely states they should “be respected” (art. 11. 2).
The Hungarian media law, the situation …
Is European information a specialists’ affair?
The European journalism is generally considered as a speciality, by those who practice it as by their colleagues. Newsrooms have their Mister Europe.
We don’t dispute the usefulness of correspondents’ work, behind the scenes in Brussels.Journalism on institutions …
Does the internet’s interactivity foster the European debate?
The internet and social media have had a tremendous impact on journalism and European journalism. Be it on news website, blogs or social networks, European information can be found all over the web. Nowadays, European Commissioners …
Are NGOs communication or information producers?
European NGOs have local contacts in every European region and are linked to grassroots players. For several decades,they have played an increasingly important role in society. In Brussels, they join forces in major groups, working and …
TV politically neutral?">Is Europarl TV politically neutral?
The EuroparlTV editorial charter states: “The channel shall ensure that the plurality of opinion in the European Parliament is reflected, with due respect to the relative strengths of the political groups, in accordance with a neutral, …
Should Community-Based Media be supported by Member States?
Community-based Media should be given access, at cost price, to the audiovisual infrastructure and frequencies (TV, radio) necessary in the Member States.
