Media Power Monitor Old Collection (2015-2023)
TV News Stations Are Now Old News
As massive batches of viewers, particularly young ones, give up watching traditional TV, the broadcasting business is rapidly crumbling. For television news stations, that is a very bad omen. When…
Reviving Greek Journalism With AthensLive
The pathetic state of Greek journalism is not a mystery to anyone anymore. The number of disgruntled readers looking for fresh journalism is growing and stories from Greece aimed at…
Latin American Digital Media Are Not so Digital
Latin America has seen unprecedented growth of digital journalistic enterprises in the past five years. But serious questions about their viability have arisen as many of them only sloppily engage…
Reform of Myanmar’s Media System: Bracing for a Slow Ride
Local journalists are investing much hope in the newly installed power in Myanmar to reform the country’s media system. But that will be a gargantuan task. Manny Maung argues that…
Big Brother is Getting Smart
In George Orwell’s 1984, telescreens could capture any sound “above the level of a very low whisper.” Today, that gadget exists. For independent journalism, smart TV is not necessarily bad…
Government Removes All Critical Voices From Croatia’s Public Broadcaster
Shortly after grabbing the country’s political helm, Croatia’s government has begun brashly purging institutions of whomever is not their friend. The public broadcaster HRT is one of their more prominent…
The Romanian Public Television on the Brink of Insolvency
The Romanian public service broadcaster has undergone scores of crises in the past two and a half decades. But now, talk about its insolvency is starting to get serious. The decision-makers’…
Donald Trump: New Media Success, or Old Media Problem?
The Donald may be master of the Twitter-verse, but his influence extends at least as much from the structural contradictions of old media campaign coverage. A year ago, experts were…
How Indalo Group Used Taxpayer Money to Buy More Media
A journalistic investigation unearths a raft of favors the former Argentinian government made to the group Indalo. But it also highlights an unsettling pattern of tradeoffs and favors between mighty…
Macedonia’s Digital Muck-Up: Politics as Usual Means “No TV for You!”
Digitization of broadcasting was hoped by many in Macedonia to pave the way for new voices to enter the media market. Instead, a digital dictatorship was established. The 35 residents…
Asian Telcos, Worst at Reporting on Anti-Corruption
Telecom behemoths drive technology advancement and help to grow the digital economy. But many of them have serious problems with reining in corruption. Asia leads in that category. Chang Xiaobing,…
Analytics in the Newsroom: Just How Powerful Can They Become?
The use of data and analytics to track audience behavior is becoming increasingly more central in newsrooms around the world. A data-informed approach, once associated with brands like BuzzFeed or…
China Plans to Push out Foreign Owners From Its Internet
Chinese authorities have never liked dissenting voices. Now, they want to solve that problem by removing foreign players from their internet. This would be a major blow for international news…
The Constitutional Issues Behind Apple iPhone Dispute: Individuals’ Freedom Is at Stake
Is it right for Apple to refuse a government’s request to create software to snoop into a terrorist’s phone? Three legal experts say it was the right call. Doing otherwise…
The Most and Least Affordable Internet: From the U.K. to the Central African Republic
Journalists are now able to reach billions of people all over the world. But for many people in the global south, consuming their products is an extremely costly venture. There…
Closure of State-Run TV in Myanmar: A Hoax
Many media observers were discombobulated when a state official hinted that Myanmar’s state-run TV could be shut down. But that’s just part of an outlandish government gambit to confuse people…
European Court Decision Allows Media to Be Less Paranoid About Online Comments
In summer 2015, a much-criticized decision by Europe’s human rights court left online portals anxious about what comments they allowed on their sites. Now, the same court has reversed that…
Next Target for Moldovan Politicians: The Internet
Politicians meddling with the journalism business is not uncommon in Moldova’s media. But now, the battle to control dissenting voices moves online. The recipe used by politicians: buy existing and…
Costa Rica: The Biggest Leap in Technology Use in the World
Costa Rica sported the highest growth in technology use worldwide during the past five years. Other, once sluggish, technology markets such as Bahrain, Lebanon and Ghana have since followed. However,…
Public Service Media in Europe: Exit Through the Back Door?
Recent turbulence at the Polish public broadcaster was seen by some observers as another political football game. Public broadcasting will survive any market or policy changes, however tumultuous they are,…