by Joan Pedro-Carañana and Miguel Álvarez-Peralta It has been more than four years now since Podemos erupted on the political scene taking the media by surprise. Most mainstream newspapers and television programmes seemed bewildered – some showed ambivalence and a minority even treated the new party with sympathy. Most TV and radio talk-shows provided space for Podemos’ hard … [Read more...]
Article 155 and the attack on public media professionals in Catalonia
by Marc Darriba-Zaragoza (marc.darriba@upf.edu) and Pablo Gómez-Domínguez (pablo.gomez@upf.edu), communication researchers at Pompeu Fabra Univesity (Barcelona) The crisis in Catalonia has huge implications for communication researchers and professionals. The activation of article 155 in the Spanish Constitution by the Spanish Senate has meant the intervention of several … [Read more...]
‘The elephant next door’: new report on media ownership abroad
The Media Reform Coalition has published a new report on media ownership and plurality laws from across the world - in the belief that Britain has something to learn from them. The report, titled ‘The Elephant Next Door: a survey of international media ownership regulations’, summarises the broad international support that exists for plurality laws, and then examines … [Read more...]