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This page brings together all the stories on Europe that have been featured on the Media Channel, with links to related pages and other resources you might find useful.

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Challenging Europe's Secrets
As the European Union considers new policy on citizens' right of access to documents, the European Federation of Journalists launches the "Essays for an Open Europe" campaign.
From Statewatch, 20 January 2001.
> also about: Access, News Coverage Policy/Law

Media Realities And Surrealities
So-called reality TV is thriving, from "Temptation Island" to "Survivor," while media outlets and their employees are coping with unwanted realities as the new year gets underway, reports News Dissector Danny Schechter.
From The Media Channel, 17 January 2001.
> also about: United States, Business, Labor Television

Can 100,000 Czechs Be Wrong?
It was the largest demo in Prague since the Velvet Revolution. But this time the target was a TV station. Is it just an ongoing political battle or is it a media reform movement taking shape? A special report from MediaChannel affiliates.
From The Media Channel, 10 January 2001.
> also about: Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Eastern Europe, Activism, Audience, Business, Freedom of Expression, Labor, Public Broadcasting Television

From Our Readers: Top Media Stories Of 2000
From India to Australia, the Philippines to the U.S.A., MediaChannel advisors and readers respond to News Dissector Danny Schechter with their own picks for the top media stories of the year.
From The Media Channel, 3 January 2001.
> also about: Australia, Ireland, Peru, Philippines, Africa, Business, Cultural Impacts, Freedom of Expression, News Coverage, Politics, Technology Multimedia/Internet

Re-Imagining Media
What emerges when religion writers, hip-hop visionaries and media critics gather to discuss crises that define our era of information overload? A provocative and insightful challenge to the propositions of manufactured life. In text and audio, MediaChannel brings highlights.
From The Media Channel, 21 June 2000.
> also about: Africa, North America, Asia and the Pacific, South America, Access, Cultural Impacts, Diversity, Education, Freedom of Expression Multimedia/Internet

Lit à Go-Go
Are you in Europe or Europe bound? Catch part of the Literature Express tour, a six week lit fest on wheels with over 100 European writers of all sorts travelling on a single train to 19 major cities. The final destination is Berlin's Friedrichstrasse station on July 17th, where a festival will be followed by a book fair in Bebelplatz. (Bebelplatz was the site of the 1933 Nazi book burning.) ...
From Arts Wire Current, 6 June 2000.
> also about: Germany, Freedom of Expression, Media Arts Books

Megadeal Backlash
As investor worries over the implications of the proposed AOL purchase of Time Warner have share prices for both companies dropping, the European Commission announced that it will be investigating the merger based on its "sheer size."
From Guardian Unlimited, 12 January 2000.

Freelancing In Europe: The Facts
As more and more European journalists find themselves working under freelance status, journalists' unions must face the new challenges of protecting the wages and benefits accorded their members. The Freelance Expert Group of the European Federation of Journalists conducted a comprehensive survey of the tax and pension arrangements for freelance journalists across Europe with the troubling fi...
From International Federation of Journalists, 1 October 1999.
> also about: Labor, Magazines Newspapers

Promoting Hatred Of The "Other"
Civil wars, ethnic strife, racial conflict, community violence, and genocide --- are the flames of hatred being fanned by majority media around the world?. Concerned that patterns of hate speech and prejudiced reporting by nationalist media are inciting violence, a coalition of media organizations across Central and Eastern Europe has formed the Reporting Diversity Network. The RDN's mission is t...
From Media Action International, 1 September 1999.
> also about: Cultural Impacts, Diversity, News Coverage Violence

TV By Citizens, For Citizens
Public access or community television has real potential as an alternative to the transnational, corporate-controlled commercial monoliths that dominate the global media. With new technologies making it easier for anyone to be a producer, we need to take advantage of public access TV as a community forum and empowering medium for citizen action. Network Open Channels overviews the state of access ...
From National Association of Open Channels, 16 July 1999.
> also about: Access Television

The Myth Of The Internet War
As anonymous email reports were filed from inside the war zone, when hackers shut down the NATO website, and as online news sites reported record traffic, the media declared the conflict in Kosovo, "The Internet War." Jon Katz disagrees, arguing that it was traditional news coverage, the images captured by photojournalists and TV networks that told the important story, not the unverifiable anony...
From Freedom Forum, 13 April 1999.

The EU's Green Paper On Convergence
The European Union Commission's 1997 Green Paper on "convergence" embraces American-style deregulation of the telecommunications, media, and information technology sectors.
From Le Monde Diplomatique, 1 March 1998.

Video For Human Rights: An Online Training Guide
How to expose human rights abuses using television, grassroots advocacy and Internet broadcasting. With text and video in French, Spanish, Arabic and English, including tips on presenting video at the United Nations.
From WITNESS, .
> also about: Africa, North America, Asia and the Pacific, South America, Access, Activism, Technology, Film Television

This page brings together all the stories on Europe that have been featured on the Media Channel, with links to related pages and other resources you might find useful.

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