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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…

New year’s greetings (and MediaLab January newsletter)

    Dear friends of the media & Europe’s MediaLab, Chèr(e)s ami(e)s, Liebe partners,   …

Europe’s MediaLab, its successes and its future

Europe’s MediaLab, its successes and its future   As Europe’s MediaLab flagship programme Stars4Media announces…

NEWSLETTER: Europe’s MediaLab, its successes and its future

Europe’s MediaLab, its successes and its future   As Europe’s MediaLab flagship programme Stars4Media announces…

MEDIA FREEDOM ACT AND STARS4MEDIA: PRESS INNOVATION HELPS PREVENT THE NEXT WAR?

This press release is also available in Ukrainian and in Russian. The war in Ukraine…

NEWSLETTER: Media support: bridging silos of public, corporate, philanthropy programmes

Media support: bridging silos of public, corporate, philanthropy programmes    As the stakes rise for…

Media support: bridging silos of public, corporate, philanthropy programmes

  As the stakes rise for media companies, aid grows, but fragmented approaches and short…

RECORD APPLICATIONS TO STARS4MEDIA NEWS, HELPING BUSINESS AND NEWSROOM TRANSFORMATION

The Stars4Media NEWS Call for projects closed on 30th June with great success. A total…

NEWSLETTER: Philanthropy for journalism, Media Freedom Act, Media data sharing

Newsletter: Call for “Philanthropy for Journalism” to secure our democracies watchdog —————————- The structural changes…

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).