TheDaily.SK, a news portal providing daily Slovak news in English, reported on the MEDIADEM final European conference which took place on 7 February 2013 in Brussels. It published a detailed report on the conference presentations, with due emphasis on the intervention of the editor in chief of TheDaily.SK concerning cross-border rules and the protection of individual journalists. More »
Two Greek national daily newspapers, Efimerida Twn Syntaktwn and To Vima, reported on the workshop on ‘Media freedom and independence in Greece: Assessment and recommendations for policy’ which was held on 11 December 2012 in Athens. The articles provided an overview of the key problems facing media freedom and independence in Greece discussed at the workshop, placing emphasis on the recommendations for the promotion of media freedom and independence in the country presented by the Greek MEDIADEM team. More »
The July 2012 issue of the SCOOP news alert service reported on the recommendations put forward in the first MEDIADEM policy brief for the promotion of media freedom and independence. The SCOOP project, which is funded by the European Union’s 7th Framework Programme, seeks to support evidence-based policy-making by strengthening the skills of the research community to reach policy makers. More »
Keskisuomalainen, the provincial daily in Jyväskylä, Finland reported about the seminar ‘Journalists’ professional autonomy and journalism ethics’ that took place on 14 June 2012 in Jyväskylä. In the article, ‘Tiedottajilla liikaa valtaa’ (Publicity agents have too much power), published on 15 July 2012, two of the seminar speakers, Valtteri Niiranen, managing director of the Federation of the Finnish Media Industry and Arto Nieminen, chairman of the Union of Journalists in Finland, expressed their common concern about the generalised journalistic practice to publish press releases as such. This has become easier due to the decreased work force in media houses. More »
A number of Croatian web portals have reported on the Croatian case study findings and have provided information on the MEDIADEM project. More »
Universia, a webpage on news about university issues in Spain, reported on the workshop on ‘Media policies & regulation for media freedom & independence’, which was held on 30 June 2011 in Athens. More »
Two Greek nation-wide newspapers, Eleftheros Typos and Estia, reported on the workshop on ‘Media policies & regulation for media freedom & independence’, which was held on 30 June 2011. More »
Diario de Castilla La Mancha, a Spanish regional newspaper, reported on the MEDIADEM project. The article refers to Dr. Susana de la Sierra, the coordinator of the MEDIADEM Spanish team, and her recent visit to the Siberian Federal University in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. Dr. de la Sierra gave an introductory course on EU law and presented some of the main debates concerning media and democracy in the European Union. More »
Cristian Ghinea, who forms part of Mediadem’s Romanian research team, has published two articles in the Romanian press, reporting on the first findings of the project. The first one was published in the daily newspaper Romania libera. It is entitled ‘Statul, mogulii şi jurnaliştii’ [The state, the moguls and the journalists], and provides an overview of the conclusions of the Romanian background report. More »
A Greek national economic newspaper, Imerisia, reported on the first findings of the MEDIADEM project on media policy and regulation in Greece. The article offers a brief overview of the media market in the country, focusing especially on newspapers and state policies towards them, as well as the pressures stemming from the development of the online media on the traditional press. More »
