Tag Archives: January 31
Pressing On
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On Tuesday, January 31st.
At the Irish Writers’ Centre on Parnell Square, Dublin 1.
From 10am.
The European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) will host the second Newsocracy conference, entitled ‘Media Ownership Concentration in Ireland and Europe’.
The ECPMF writes:
Ireland is falling far below European standards for press and media freedom. There is widespread concern at the implications for media diversity and plurality at the concentration of media ownership and a growing recognition that the ownership structure is a significant factor in undermining journalism and democracy.
This conference explores the implications for the work of journalists and places a focus on the difficulties they face where access to the media is restricted by concentration of ownership.
The European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) invites international stakeholders, politicians, unionist, academics and journalists, to talk about ownership structures and their implications on access to media, working conditions for journalists and the influence on news and public opinion.
Dr. Roderick Flynn from Dublin City University, author of the Media Pluralism Monitor Ireland, explains in a keynote the current status of media ownership and media pluralism in Ireland.
Other speakers include: Lynn Boylan, MEP for Dublin, Sinn Féin/GUENGL; Dr. Elda Brogi, CMPF/EUI, Italy Seamus Dooley, General Secretary NUJ; Anton McCabe, investigative journalist, Northern Ireland; Catherine Murphy, TD, Social Democrats; Gemma O’Doherty, investigative journalist; Renate Schroeder, Director European Federation of Journalists, Belgium; Olaf Steenfadt, Project Coordinator Media Ownership Monitor (MOM), Reporters Without Borders, Germany; Nora Wehofsits, Advocacy Officer, European Centre for Press and Media Freedom, Germany.
The event is open to the public and free but those interested in attending are asked to register here or send an email to conference@ecpmf.eu
Read more here
Previously: Press Reset
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbGO3L3QJ2M
Stop them.
They’re attacking Democracy
Word On The Street Ireland writes:
“A large number of people turned out to protest against the set up of Irish Water [in Cork] on Saturday. The protestors met near the library on the Grand Parade and then marched down the South Mall, along Merchant’s Quay, up St. Patrick’s Street and back to the Grand Parade. This video portrays views from the ordinary people in the march.”
One man told Word On The Street Ireland (at 10.07):
“My father had a stroke, god rest him, the services weren’t there then, the services aren’t there now. And when my father had a stroke, and it distresses me, and there’s no fault now to the staff in CUH [Cork University Hospital]. My father was on a trolley for 24 hours, after a stroke. He wanted to relieve himself, which is one of the symptoms of stroke apparently. And the nurse handed me a pigeon and I had to hold my father’s privates out in the middle of CUH, as people were passing by. I’ll remember that to the day I die. And the situation has not improved. We’re giving money to the bankers, the hospitals are suffering, the nurses are protesting and there’s plenty of money there. As was said earlier, they’re burning €500million, here at the Central Bank – €500million for the next infinite number of years. Could that money not be diverted to pay for the health service?”
H/T: Grant March