Media Power Monitor Old Collection (2015-2023)
Mexico’s Second Richest Man Uses Television to Defy Authorities
Ricardo Salinas Pliego, owner of TV Azteca, has in recent months used his television station to pressure the Mexican government to lift the quarantine imposed by the country’s health authority…
El segundo hombre más rico de México usa TV para desacatar a la autoridad sanitaria
Fiel a su historia, Ricardo Salinas Pliego, dueño de TV Azteca usó la pantalla de su empresa para presionar al gobierno mexicano a que levantara la cuarentena ordenada por la…
How Covid-19 Threatens Media Freedom
Access to accurate information is essential to fighting a pandemic. However, many governments hide behind the emergency to restrict media freedom. On January 26, Malaysian journalist Wan Noor Hayati Wan…
Bolivian Media: Rising From the Ashes
For more than a decade, the government has meddled with Bolivia’s news media. Following the collapse of the Morales regime, the country’s journalists want to put paid to that, once…
Is Fact-Checking Working?
Much time and money have been spent on combatting misinformation through fact-checking. But it’s not clear whether it has any impact at all. Fact-checkers are taking credit for the circulation collapse of…
Serbian Journalism in Free Fall
All eyes are currently resting on Hungary and other media freedom bashers across Europe – but it is actually in Serbia where independent journalism is hitting the skids at an…
How to Wipe Away Digital History: Buy a Newspaper
A wealthy and influential lawyer buys the sole English newspaper in Cyprus. The real motive: cleaning his digital record. The announcement by Cyprus Mail yesterday that the newspaper was taken…
The Man Who Wants to Be the Czech Berlusconi
Jaromir Soukup, owner of TV Barrandov in the Czech Republic, is building a media empire with Russian and Chinese money. “I am ashamed of him,” John Bok, a Czech political…
The Rich Disruptor
For nearly two decades, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has spent more on media partnerships than almost any other philanthropy. A growing number of philanthropies are cultivating partnerships with…
Journalism Has to Reinvent Itself
An interview with Maria Teresa Ronderos How should philanthropies with limited resources act to stem the tide of a global recession in independent journalism? In recent years, an authoritarian crackdown on media across…
Mobile News: When More Informs Less
More people read more news on mobile phones. That doesn’t mean that they get more informed. Five years ago, in a publicity stunt anticipating the launch of a “water-resistant” handset,…
Advice: Investigate Corporate Power, Environment and Algorithms
Interview with the Peruvian journalist Nelly Luna Amancio, co-founder of Ojo Publico Nelly Luna Amancio is the co-founder and editor of Ojo Publico, an independent, non-profit Peruvian newsroom known internationally for…
Danish Public Media: Loved by People, Hated by Politicians
Political enemies of Denmark’s public broadcaster DR are hatching plans to crop the station’s budget. A bellicose commercial media industry is going to bat for them. A “TV hit factory.”…
Public Broadcasting in Austria: Politicians Clash With Journalists
Recent attacks from right-wing politicians on Austria’s popular public broadcaster are raising alarming questions about the future of independent journalism in the country. An Austrian court has recently decided that…
Twitter News Media in the Arab Region: Who’s Winning
In the Arab world, global players still boast millions of Twitter followers, but a clutch of fast-growing news media from Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Lebanon are making inroads into the…
Media Capture, Made in Bulgaria
One businessman has managed to bring both the state structures and big business in Bulgaria under his tight control. Media was a key piece of that puzzle. Last month, when…
An Uprising of New Cuban Media Defies State Rule
Cuba’s Constitution prohibits private media. Nevertheless, more than a dozen media outlets outside state control have unfolded in the country since the beginning of the century. A total of fourteen…
Thai Far-Right Gets Its Hands on Fancy Newspaper
A business group with far-right affinities buys The Nation, one of Thailand’s most respectable newspapers. This means that independent reporting is now likely to be whittled away. Pravit Rojanaphruk has…
A Dim Future Approaches for Objective Reporting in Slovakia
The management of RTVS, Slovakia’s public broadcaster, is poised to turn the station into a political enterprise. The recent cancellation of the station’s sole investigative journalism program is part of…
How Will Face-Controlling Technology Change Journalism?
Video-tampering technology is likely to take fake news manufacturing to a whole new level. For journalism, that is a game-changer. Imagine watching your local MP, your favorite singer or the…