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		<title>Case study reports &#8211; Media regulation: A panacea for free and independent media?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Credits: Creative Commons 14 case study reports discussing the policy processes and the regulatory tools that have a bearing on the development of free and independent media in the countries covered by the MEDIADEM project have been issued. The case study reports engage in an empirical study of the institutional dynamics of media policy-making in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mediadem.eliamep.gr/case-study-reports-media-regulation-a-panacea-for-free-and-independent-media/</link>
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		<title>Public service media do not have to end ‘online written press activities’</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Credits: espensovik/ Creative commons It is a dismal future that awaits the printed press. The growth of the Internet cannot be considered the only cause of its decline[1] but there is no point denying that the development of Internet-based media services has only made a steep slope more slippery for the print business. In Belgium, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mediadem.eliamep.gr/public-service-media-do-not-have-to-end-%e2%80%98online-written-press-activities%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<title>MEDIADEM consortium meets in Edinburgh</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MEDIADEM researchers met in Edinburgh on 8-10 December 2011 for the fourth meeting of the project. Twenty nine participants from fourteen European countries came together to discuss about the project, to evaluate the progress so far and to lay down the roadmap of activities. In more detail, MEDIADEM researchers talked about the nature and scope [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mediadem.eliamep.gr/mediadem-consortium-meets-in-edinburgh/</link>
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		<title>Press conference of the School of Communication and Media on the results of a survey and research on media freedom and independence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The School of Communication and Media (SKAMBA) organised a press conference in Bratislava on 1 December 2011 to present the results of a case study and an on-line survey on the impact of media policy on free and independent media performance in Slovakia. The results were presented by Dr. Andrej Školkay, the scientist in charge [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mediadem.eliamep.gr/press-conference-of-the-school-of-communication-and-media-on-the-results-of-a-survey-and-research-on-media-freedom-and-independence/</link>
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		<title>Conference &#8211; New media, old values?  Media freedom and independence in the era of convergence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Edinburgh MEDIADEM team and the University of Edinburgh organised a one day conference on ‘New media, old values? Media freedom and independence in the era of convergence’. The conference, which took place on the 9th December at the University of Edinburgh, focussed on the challenges that increasing convergence across media platforms currently poses for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mediadem.eliamep.gr/conference-new-media-old-values-media-freedom-and-independence-in-the-era-of-convergence/</link>
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		<title>Does media policy promote media freedom and independence? The case of Slovakia: Presentation of preliminary findings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The School of Communication and Media presented the preliminary findings of the MEDIADEM case study report &#8216;Does media policy promote media freedom and independence? The case of Slovakia´, which is currently being prepared, at a seminar on Media and Telecommunication Law. The seminar was organised by the Academy of Justice in Omšenie, Slovakia, on 12-13 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mediadem.eliamep.gr/does-media-policy-promote-media-freedom-and-independence-the-case-of-slovakia-presentation-of-preliminary-findings/</link>
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		<title>High-level group to focus on media freedom and pluralism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A high-level group to provide recommendations for the respect, protection, support and promotion of media freedom and pluralism in Europe has been created by European Commission Vice-President Neelie Kroes. The members of the group have been selected for their expertise in their respective fields and for their complete independence. The group, meeting for the first [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mediadem.eliamep.gr/high-level-group-to-focus-on-media-freedom-and-pluralism/</link>
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		<title>MEDIADEM partners contribute to the work of a special drafting-law committee in Greece</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Greek Government has formed a special committee to examine the possibility of enacting new legislation in order to deal with issues relating to the civil and criminal liability for libel, defamation, calumny and other acts or offenses committed by website/blog administrators or website owners or users of the respective services. The MEDIADEM project contributed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mediadem.eliamep.gr/mediadem-partners-contribute-to-the-work-of-a-special-drafting-law-committee-in-greece/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Media policies and regulatory practices – the case of Spain&#8217;: now available in Spanish</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The report on ‘Media policies and regulatory practices – the case of Spain’ is now available in Spanish. View the report &#8216;Políticas públicas europeas sobre medios de comunicación y prácticas regulatorias: la situación en España&#8217; here.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mediadem.eliamep.gr/media-policies-and-regulatory-practices-%e2%80%93-the-case-of-spain-now-available-in-spanish/</link>
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		<title>Workshop on ‘The Internet: Between cultural value and economic good. An uncharted legal terrain or do we need a differentiated concept of regulation?’</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), the German MEDIADEM team and the Law Faculty of the Bielefeld University organised a workshop on ‘The Internet: Between cultural value and economic good. An uncharted legal terrain or do we need a differentiated concept of regulation?’. The event took place on 22-23 September 2011 in the premises of the FES in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mediadem.eliamep.gr/workshop-on-%e2%80%98the-internet-between-cultural-value-and-economic-good-an-uncharted-legal-terrain-or-do-we-need-a-differentiated-concept-of-regulation%e2%80%99/</link>
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