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PMA Update | 15 March

Public Media Alliance

Supporting our members to build and promote trust in public media worldwide.

发布日期: 2024年3月15日

?? PMA joins coalition calling for effective implementation of EMFA

The European Parliament on Wednesday adopted with an overwhelming majority (464 in favour, 92 against, 65 abstentions) the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA).

Media freedom and pluralism along with the rule of law have been in decline in the EU (and beyond) for many years. Where the rule of law is undermined, independent journalism is often the first to suffer. Against this background, our coalition of organisations representing journalists, media freedom and civil society groups, and public service media, congratulate the EU institutions and welcome the EMFA as an important step towards protecting and promoting media freedom and pluralism in the EU.

We also take this opportunity to remind media stakeholders and public authorities that in certain areas, the EMFA only lays down the very minimum of standards.

We now call on the European Commission, national governments, and independent regulatory authorities to work closely with media stakeholders for the EMFA’s full and effective implementation to help strengthen media freedom and pluralism across the EU.

To aid this process, some of the undersigned organisations will be preparing, where necessary, assessments and recommendations to help Member States, media and civil society stakeholders with this crucial task.

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???? The news funding model is broken - but this would fix it

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???? 10 years on from his murder, Nils Horner still deserves justice

Swedish Radio’s Foreign Correspondent, Nils Horner, was murdered in Kabul on 11 March 2014. The world is now more dangerous for correspondents, writes CEO Cilla Benk?, where the vast majority of crimes against journalists go unpunished.

???? New technology to show why images and video are genuine on BBC News

BBC News has introduced a new ‘content credentials’ feature, which confirms where an image or video has come from and how its authenticity has been verified. It also uses new technology to embed this information within the image or video itself – helping to counter disinformation when the content is shared outside the BBC.