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20 MEDIA FROM 12 COUNTRIES BOOST THEIR TRANSFORMATION

Stars4Media NEWS BOOST phase to end in May 2024, ahead of the next EU elections…

Playing CHESS for Europe: The Media Responds to Call of Duty in Dangerous Times

Dear friend of the media and of Europe’s MediaLab, Welcome to ‘la rentrée’ after a…

A new strategy, media trends and Eastern Europe

Dear friend of the media and of Europe’s MediaLab,  We are preparing a new phase, with…

What will happen to Prigozhin’s “media empire” and troll factory?

This article originally appeared on Meduza, an independent Russian- and English-language news website, based in…

Media consolidation… to innovate faster EURACTIV takeover, MediaLab: what next?

Dear friend of the media and of Europe’s MediaLab,   We are thrilled to bring…

(Sister organisation to MediaLab, same family) EURACTIV joins Mediahuis group: Why media sector consolidation is necessary

Read the latest Press Release on an important update concerning EURACTIV. Read and answer our…

NEXT: WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY, AI OPPORTUNITIES, FUTURE OF STARS4MEDIA

    Dear friend of the media and of Europe’s MediaLab,    Today is the…

Stars4Media – FACTCHECKING: the business value of fact-checking in Eastern Europe

BRUSSELS – Last year, Europe’s MediaLab launched “Stars4Media – FACTCHECKING” – a research project, funded…

STARS4MEDIA NEWS: 14 PROJECTS SELECTED TO EXPLORE INNOVATION IN EUROPEAN MEDIA

After an intense summer that saw 48 projects by 90 media companies pitching their projects in…

Read our open letter, co-signed by 28 MEPs and media stakeholders, calling on the European Commission President von der Leyen, to support a “Coronavirus Media Action Plan” to protect the infrastructure of our democracy (March 2020): Health, trust and journalism: a Coronavirus Plan for the Media

“Democratic debates require trusted information, less economic pressure on media, and more policy pressure on platforms. Supporting citizens’ choices, three concepts will help: ‘co-regulation’, ‘trust indicators’, ‘systemic publishing platforms’.”Learn more on our Open Letter to the Commission President von der Leyen, co-signed by 15 MEPs, former MEPs, and media experts (December 2019): Democracy and Digital: trusted media & platform regulation.

Media policy: EU's high-level expert group on disinformation (2018)

In 2018, Christophe Leclercq was one of the experts on the EU High-Level Expert Group (HLEG) on disinformation. Read the report of the HLEG published in March 2018: Final report of the High Level Expert Group on Fake News and Online Disinformation. This Opinion piece is summarising the works of the EU High-Level Expert Group on disinformation : Avoid censorship, dilute fake with quality news (available in EN, FR, DE).

The Open Letter reacting to the EU Action Plan on disinformation was co-signed by six MEPs and six independent media experts (December 2018): Beyond fake news: Strategic options for media ahead of EU elections (FR, DE). Three adapted versions of this Open Letter have been published in FR (Le Monde), IT (Italia Oggi), ES (El Pais).