13 February proclaimed World Radio Day

We cel­e­brate today the first World Radio Day. Pro­posed by the Span­ish Radio Acad­emy and pro­claimed by the UNESCO, this new ini­tia­tive aims at ’ improv­ing inter­na­tional coop­er­a­tion among radio broad­cast­ers and encour­age decision-makers to …

Répartir équitablement l’offre médiatique entre médias assurant une mission de Service public, médias purement commerciaux et médias associatifs

Objec­tif

Recon­naître le rôle essen­tiel de l’ensemble des médias dans la dif­fu­sion d’une infor­ma­tion européenne indépen­dante, plu­ral­iste et de qual­ité.
Proposition

Adopter une lég­is­la­tion com­mu­nau­taire visant à répar­tir équitable­ment l’offre médi­a­tique audio­vi­suelle européenne entre médias assur­ant une mission …

Create a balance between public service media, commercial media and community-based media

Goal
The recog­ni­tion of the essen­tial role played by a broad range of media in spread­ing inde­pen­dent, plu­ral­ist and high qual­ity infor­ma­tion on Europe
Proposal

Pass a Com­mu­nity law aimed at cre­at­ing a fair and bal­anced media struc­ture incor­po­rat­ing pub­lic ser­vice media, …

Anne-Marie Impe: “For a permanent education journalism”

Cofounder, direc­tor and edi­tor of the review Enjeux inter­na­tionaux for five years, Anne-Marie Impe works today for the launch of an on line mag­a­zine and is writ­ing a book in sup­port of a “per­ma­nent edu­ca­tion journalism”. …

Europe through the Twitter lens

Today is World Press Free­dom Day, and the UN has decided to make it all about the web. So we decided to come back on that issue that has been strangely miss­ing from our White Paper (yes, we know).

On the day the World press is look­ing closely at the impact of the inter­net, we decided to right that wrong.

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 …

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.

Why do they leave Brussels?

What a para­dox! The Euro­pean Union, treaty after treaty, is always more pow­er­ful, influ­enc­ing more and more local poli­cies inside the dif­fer­ent Euro­pean states. 500 mil­lions cit­i­zens’ lifestyle depends on the Euro­pean Union.
We then expect infor­ma­tion to …

Cafebabel celebrates 10 years of European information

Cafébabel.com cel­e­brated its 10 years on 1 Feb­ru­ary. The “Shake up Europe!” cel­e­bra­tion took place in Stras­bourg, where every­thing started in 2001.
This four-day meet­ing was the first offi­cial meet­ing between so many dif­fer­ent Euro­pean medias. It was …