[Icann-see] WG: [FoME] Curbing Media, Crippling Debate: Soft Censorship in Bulgaria

[Wolf Ludwig]

Just FYI -- with regards,
Wolf


Sofie Jannusch sent Thu, 31 Mar 2016 16:51:
>Curbing Media, Crippling Debate: Soft Censorship in Bulgaria
 
As part of their soft censorship research series, CIMA, along with the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) and the South East Europe Media Organization, released “Curbing Media, Crippling Debate: Soft Censorship in Bulgaria”.
 
(CIMA) “Soft censorship is used to promote positive coverage of officials or their actions and to punish media outlets that criticize them. It is the practice of influencing news coverage of state bodies and officials and their policies and activities through allocation or withholding of state media spending (subsidies, advertising, and other media contracts), or selective application of licensing, permits, or regulations, to shape the broad media landscape; promote or diminish the economic viability of specific media houses or outlets; and reward or punish individual media workers. .. The findings and recommendations of the soft censorship research series aim to contribute to the implementation of fair and transparent rules that are necessary for the development of independent media sectors around the world.”
 
Download the full report here:
http://www.cima.ned.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/SC-Bulgaria-final-2016.pdf
_______________________________________________

EuroDIG Secretariat
http://www.eurodig.org/
mobile +41 79 204 83 87
Skype: Wolf-Ludwig

Swiss IGF
http://swiss-igf.ch

EURALO - ICANN's Regional At-Large Organisation
http://euralo.org

Profile on LinkedIn
http://ch.linkedin.com/in/wolfludwig