PRESS RELEASE – Brussels, March 5th 2021 On 3 March 2021, the Media4Europe Summit gathered 200 media professionals, key policymakers and publishers, around the theme “Towards a healthy news media sector?”. The event was also the official launch of the second edition of the Stars4Media innovation exchange programme, and served as policy background for a strategy study..
Vice-President Vĕra Jourová Speech at the Media4Europe Summit: Towards a healthy European news media sector (Brussels, March 3rd 2021) Ladies and gentlemen, It is a great pleasure to be virtually with you for this event on the health of the European news media sector.bIt is an extremely important issue, because the health of the news..
Stars4Media second edition is starting! Preview & policy context: Media4Europe event on March 3rd Winter is coming, and so is Stars4Media 2nd edition. Following the successful first edition, the exchange programme Stars4Media is entering a second phase. During the next 18 months,185 media professionals will develop 30 cross border collaborative initiatives to test content, formats, services,..
Media4Europe Summit: towards a healthy European news media sector? Wednesday 3rd March 2021| Online and in Brussels | 9:30 – 13:30 The Media4Europe Summit is the launching event of the second edition of the Stars4Media exchange and training programme, co-funded by the EU. It follows the Media4Europe conference in October 2020, which gathered key MEPs..
Promoting quality news to support media and democracy 2020 will be remembered as one of the most challenging since the creation of the EU. The pandemic amplified and accelerated the transformation of our societies. With vaccines in sight in 2021, the pandemic crisis begins moving to recovery. At the same time the new year brings..
Hope shines with DSA and DMA? Speed and integration required The EU Commission has finally released its proposal to overhaul rules for the online world. In the last twenty years the e-Commerce framework with its liability exemptions laid the basis for some of the most powerful companies in today’s economy. Lack of compelling regulation also..
Media Action Plan and Democracy Action Plan: NEWS and coalition building The EU’s Media Action Plan and Democracy Action Plan were unveiled today: there is a strong momentum to support a resilient democracy infrastructure, and a healthier media sector with more capacities to innovate. Rebalancing the media ecosystem is needed. This notably takes a clear..
Time for NEWS bundle to help media transformation Support for News media is more important than ever. The EU has many small projects helping news media recover and transform. Media-specific EU-funded projects include existing ones (notably pilots suggested by the Parliament, and also a recent wave regarding digital journalism, fact-checking, media literacy), and also new..
Towards media recovery through innovation and regulating platforms There are encouraging signs toward rebalancing the media ecosystem, and also renewing it, if actors move from legislation to actions, including resources to innovate. The US opens greater competition enquiries, which shows that tackling platforms is not anti-American. Also, regarding fair taxation of platforms, it is now..
Media recovery beyond regulation: a NEWS bundle across Creative Europe and Horizon, like MEDIA The current EU budget negotiations risk squeezing programmes like Creative Europe, with the same crumbs as before for the struggling press. In addition to GAFA regulation, and learning from MEDIA dedicated to audiovisual and film, bundling scattered efforts under NEWS could..
