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..
Read the parliamentary question on a potential NEWS sub-programme (Creative Europe), the Media Action Plan and short term measures for the media (submitted by MEP Andrus Ansip): “Independent and free media is instrumental for the functioning of democracy. The news media sector is in crisis. The revenues of global service providers who are able to..
Europe’s media sector may not survive the Coronavirus crisis.
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
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: “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’.”
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