Cees J. Hamelink Forty years ago, I edited one of the first critical commentaries on the MacBride report. In the preface I stated that it is a challenge “to see the Report only as a step in a broader process and as an invitation to further...
Preeti Raghunath In April 2020, an announcement was splashed across the media in India – that of Facebook’s investments in Jio Platforms, acquiring a 9.99% stake through an all-cash deal. Jio Platforms, owned by one of the biggest conglomerates in India, entered into this deal with...
Rafael Roncagliolo Resulta muy atractiva y desafiante la invitación de la WACC a revisar, cuarenta años después, el informe de la Comisión MacBride desde la perspectiva de los cambios recientes. ¿Qué diría hoy la Comisión MacBride? ¿Cómo se debe fomentar y proteger la participación genuina, la...
Juan Carlos Salazar del Barrio Las desgracias, como reza el dicho popular, nunca llegan solas. La pandemia del coronavirus, que ha paralizado al mundo, ha dado paso a otro mal, cuyo virus se esparce con la misma velocidad, si no mayor, que la misma pandemia, un...
Eneken Tikk Disassembling bronze monuments and concrete tokens of a half-decade of occupation and expelling Soviet troops from Tartu’s strategic bomber airfield and the Paldiski nuclear reactor base in the early 1990s was a play against time. It was, then and there, also a race against...
Levi Obonyo The debate to end all debates ended with the promulgation of the New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO), but like the African traditional hearth the embers linger on half a century later. The world should have been flat today with information flow from...
Richard C. Vincent There is little doubt that well-written, thorough and objective, journalism is a vital component of modern life and a necessity for a democratic society. Whether the traditional newspaper-reporting we have known for centuries, a hundred years of broadcast journalism, or the more recent...
Saarbruecken (Germany) 2021 At the 42nd Film Festival Max Ophuels Prize Saarbruecken held 17-24 January 2021, the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, endowed with € 2500 by the Catholic and the Protestant Adult Education in the Saarland, was awarded to Borga directed by York-Fabian Raabe (Germany,...
The tech headlines in the past week have marked the growing data privacy battle between Apple and Facebook. The latest update to iPads and iPhones includes an App Tracking Transparency feature which will force app developers to ask users permission to collect their data. This...
Do current shifts in economic thinking represent an opportunity for communication rights? On April 5th, United States Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen issued a call for a global corporate tax rate, a major shift from the neoliberal consensus that has governed the global economy since...