Automne 2012 : lancement du European Daily, premier quotidien européen

While today, Euro­pean media are con­fined to the Inter­net and pre­dom­i­nantly ded­i­cated to a pub­lic already well informed on Euro­pean mat­ters, Euro­pean Daily decides to swim against the tide. Bet­ting on all cit­i­zens’ inter­est and on the birth of a Euro­pean pub­lic sphere, Euro­pean Daily will launch its Euro­pean news­pa­per by Autumn 2012.

The Democratic Firm: a guarantee of journalists’ independence and media pluralism

The plu­ral­ism of media is cur­rently seri­ously endan­gered (not only) in Europe. Apart from obvi­ous polit­i­cal pres­sures and effects of media con­cen­tra­tion, jour­nal­ists are also gravely affected by the finan­cial and eco­nomic cri­sis. With a drop …

Le Soir’s probe on media independance: can we be both judge and defendant?

On Feb­ru­ary 2012, the Bel­gian news­pa­per Le Soir inquired into taboos of Bel­gian soci­ety. Among other top­ics, net surfers asked the news­pa­per to inves­ti­gate Media’ s inde­pen­dence. In the panel of inter­vie­wees, a major­ity came from media …

L’enquête du journal Le Soir sur l’indépendance des médias: peut-on être juge et partie?

Durant le mois de février, le quo­ti­dien belge Le Soir a enquêté sur l’indépendance des médias belges fran­coph­o­nes. Der­rière des posi­tions assez con­sen­suelles, une analyse à contre-courant a retenu notre atten­tion : celle de Geof­frey Geuens. Dom­mage que le bilan de l’enquête dressé par le Soir n’y fasse aucune allusion…

Fundación para el Periodismo: ‘stimulate a better journalism practice’

The Fun­dación para el Peri­odismo(Boli­vian Foun­da­tion for Jour­nal­ism) was founded in 2008, by the Aso­ciación de Peri­odis­tas de la Paz — APLP (Asso­ci­a­tion of Jour­nal­ists of La Paz) and the Aso­ciación Nacional de la Prensa – ANP (National Press …

Social and civic media: from mediatisation to mediation

What we gen­er­ally do when we speak about media is analyse their role as government’s supporter/government’s tool, or on the con­trary, as a full force of oppo­si­tion. In each case, media and polit­i­cal play­ers both monopolise …

Focus on Ushahidi: Kenya’s witness eye

The crowd voic­ing plat­form Ushahidi was founded three years ago in Kenya. One of the aims of this arti­cle is to track the posi­tion this web­site takes in the coun­try. Fur­ther­more we want to explore …

Press: are we condemned to say goodbye?

In a recent inter­view for the Swiss daily La Tri­bune, the Pres­i­dent of the World Intel­lec­tual Prop­erty Organ­i­sa­tion, Fran­cis Gurry, declared that ‘ in a few years, we won’t find news­pa­pers any­more, not as we know them …

La synthèse du 8 novembre et la poursuite du débat sur Socialeuropeanjournalism.com

Notre Com­mu­ni­ca­tion au Par­lement Européen « Dix propo­si­tions phares pour une infor­ma­tion européenne citoyenne » a été présen­tée à un panel de par­lemen­taires européens et d’ONG/fédérations européennes, le 8 novem­bre dernier, au sein du Bureau d’Information du Parlement …

Confier une nouvelle mission qualitative à l’Observatoire Audiovisuel Européen

Objec­tif
Pro­mou­voir une infor­ma­tion européenne indépen­dante, plu­ral­iste et de qual­ité.
Proposition

Charger l’Observatoire Audio­vi­suel Européen d’une mis­sion d’étude sur la place et le traite­ment de l’information européenne dans les médias de chaque Etat mem­bre. Cette mis­sion pour­rait être …

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, …

Mediadem: For free and independent Media

The Hel­lenic Foun­da­tion for Euro­pean and For­eign Pol­icy (ELIAMEP) and thir­teen other research cen­ters, from all over Europe, launched last year a new study on Euro­pean Media poli­cies, called Medi­a­dem (Medi­a­dem Euro­pean media poli­cies revis­ited: valuing …