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This report examines the Constitution and the audio-visual legal framework of Lebanon and identifies the areas that do not meet international standards of best practice and might benefit from review and harmonisation. To this end, it recommends changes to the legal framework aimed at enhancing the...
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Thursday, January 1, 2015
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The ongoing crisis in Libya means that media legislation may not have much effect in reality. It is often unclear whether pre-revolutionary legislation still applies and new laws may disregardinternational best practice. It has been difficult to get access to official, current versions of...
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Thursday, January 1, 2015
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Unlike Tunisia, Libya or Egypt, for example, it was an evolution in the existing political regime and not a revolution that brought about the liberalisation of the Moroccan media. The lifting by legal decree of the state broadcasting monopoly inherited from the French protectorate, the setting up...
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Thursday, January 1, 2015
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This reports looks into media legislation and the multiple challenges affecting the media and key obstacles to media reform in Palestine. Palestine has fewer provisions for media legislation than any other country in the Southern Mediterranean region. Any review of media law in Palestine should...
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Thursday, January 1, 2015
Hard-earned press freedom in Tunisia is under threat as journalists are squeezed between violent extremists and security services sensitive to criticism in the wake of deadly terror attacks. While Islamist militants threaten the media, the government introduces restrictive legislation and security...
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Thursday, October 1, 2015
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Much has been written about the media in Libya and Tunisia following the revolutions of 2011, most of it focused on the role of social media, mobile telephony and the internet, as well as on rapidly proliferating private media. There has been little research, however, that looks at the media...
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Sunday, March 1, 2015
Does self-regulation work? Are journalists bound by ethical codes and free to act according to conscience? Do media houses have credible internal systems for dealing with conflicts of interest and complaints from the public? Are there national accountability systems, such as press councils, that...
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Friday, November 25, 2016
The Protection of Journalistic Sources is one of the basic conditions for press freedom: without proper mechanisms at the national level, sources may be deterred from assisting the press in informing the public on matters of public interest, ultimately impeding the press from providing accurate and...
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Friday, July 1, 2016
CIMA’s report examines how humanitarian crises around the world have led to a major change in the priorities and approaches in media development efforts.
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Friday, April 1, 2016
Global Media Monitoring Project 2015 key findings suggest there have been only slight improvements in the past 20 years considering women’s inclusion in the global media. For example, since 2005 the overall number of women newsmakers rose only by 1 percent – up to 24 percent in total in the...
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Friday, November 25, 2016

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