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13 Nov 2012
Bias | Free speech debate | homosexuality | Journalism | Media | Middle East | omission | Living with difference | Middle East | Free Speech Debate | International
The case: (Not) reporting homosexuality in the Middle EastHomosexuality is a taboo subject mainstream Arabic news outlets regularly avoid. If reported at all,...
12 Nov 2012
correction | Defamation | Journalism | Media | newspaper | Reputation and defamation | Free Speech Debate
The case: The right to reply in GermanyThe right of reply is an attainment of the French Revolution and is based on the principle audiatur et altera pars...
12 Nov 2012
Celebrity | Free speech debate | Journalism | Media | Newspapers | private lives | regulation | Right to privacy | Free speech and privacy | Free Speech Debate
The case: Celebrity Privacy RegisterLord Justice Leveson, who is leading an inquiry into media ethics following the 2011 phone-hacking scandal in Britain, has...
11 Sep 2012
gender | Gender | Media | Sport General | Stereotype | Women | Media | Sport
The world of sport is almost entirely divided between men’s and women’s categories. However men’s sport has always dominated all forms of...
24 Aug 2012
Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement | Digital Freedoms | Digital Rights Management | European Parliament | Intellectual Property | Intellectual Property | International Relations | Media
What is ACTA?
The intention behind the creation of ACTA is to allow countries to work together to tackle large scale intellectual property violations. It...
13 Jul 2012
crime | Crime & Policing | Fourth estate | Journalism | justice | law | Media | Violence | Media | Culture | Law
Rarely a day goes by that the media does not report an incident of violent crime such as Grievously Bodily Harm, muggings or murder. These are reported via...
1 May 2012
Journalism | Media | News Corp | News International | News of the World | Newspapers | Phone Hacking | Power | responsibility | Rupert Murdoch | The Sun | The Times | Media | Media and good government | Culture | Free Speech Debate
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation is a multinational media corporation with interests in books, cable and satellite television, films, magazines,...
22 Feb 2012
Leveson Inquiry | Media | Newspapers | Press | regulation | Tabloids | Media and good government | Culture | Free Speech Debate
This debate will in large part be focused in the UK. At the time of writing, press freedom in the United Kingdom has become a significant issue as a result of...
20 Feb 2012
Advertising | BBC | Commercialism | Libertarianism | Media | NPR | Ownership | PBS | Pluralism | Public Broadcasting | State-run | television | Media | Television | Culture
Almost all countries have, in one form or another, at least one public service broadcaster, These often exist alongside privately owned commercial rivals. Many...
20 Feb 2012
Bankruptcy | Broadcasting | Freedom of the Press | Journalism | Media | Newspapers | Print | role of government | Culture
The idea of a government intervening to preserve a free press may sound anathema at first glance but, in reality, it’s actually fairly common. In recent years...
