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Tag Archives: Freedom of the press
Mar 10 2016
Read All About It (Or Not): The Trouble with the Turkish Press
Comments Off on Read All About It (Or Not): The Trouble with the Turkish PressBy Kate Cyr Istanbul’s 2013 Gezi Park protests unearthed muddy tales of corruption, bias, and authoritarianism that powerful conglomerates and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) would have preferred buried indefinitely. The government received global scrutiny as anyone from … Continue reading
Posted by: March 10, 2016
Tagged with: Erdogan, Freedom of the press, Kurdistan, PKK, Turkish media
Aug 23 2013
The Myth of Journalistic Impartiality under Austerity
2 CommentsBy Yiannis Baboulias “Stuff is biased” lamented a Greek journalist after a piece of mine was published in the New Statesman last February. In the piece, I was making the case that four young anarchists who had been arrested after … Continue reading
Posted by: August 23, 2013
Tagged with: Accountability, austerity, Freedom of the press, Greece, Greek economy, Journalism, media, Media Systems
Aug 20 2013
Emerging Themes from the First Six Months of Euro Crisis in the Press
Comments Off on Emerging Themes from the First Six Months of Euro Crisis in the PressBy the Editorial Team The Euro Crisis in the Press blog began as part of a wider LSE-based research project on media representations of the Euro crisis across European states. The aim of the blog has been to provide a … Continue reading
Posted by: August 20, 2013
Tagged with: austerity, Blame, blog highlights, Crisis, Cyprus, European identity, European Public Sphere, European Union, Eurozone crisis, Freedom of the press, Journalism, media, Media Systems, Public Sphere
Jun 15 2013
The struggle over the Greek national broadcaster: a debate of extremes
8 CommentsBy Maria Kyriakidou Greece is once more in turmoil. The sudden and shocking shutdown of the state television and radio network, ERT, by the government last Tuesday was met with angry demonstrations not only by the virtually 2,600 employees of … Continue reading
Posted by: June 15, 2013
Tagged with: Antonis Samaras, Corruption, ERT, Freedom of the press, Golden Dawn, Greek economy, Media Systems, Press, Public Sphere
Apr 25 2013
Who’s reporting the crisis? The state of the media in Greece
4 CommentsBy Maria Kyriakidou Greece has been ranked 84th among 179 countries for freedom of the press, according to the 2013 World Press Freedom Index published in January 2013 by the international NGO “Reporters Without Borders”, with a staggering fall of … Continue reading
Posted by: April 25, 2013
Tagged with: Corruption, Freedom of the press, Journalism, Media Systems, Press, Public Sphere