[open-government] Join the Campaign for Transparency of Media Ownership

Wed Mar 4 15:09:28 UTC 2015

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  Join the Campaign for Transparency of Media Ownership

*»* /In only 2 out of 20 countries analysed is it possible to know who
really owns the media./

*»* /In 10 out of 20 countries not even the media regulators know who
really owns the print media and for online media this figure drops to 6./

/Madrid, 4 March 2014/ – Today Access Info Europe
<http://www.access-info.org/> is opening for signature the Ten
Recommendations
<http://www.access-info.org/wp-content/uploads/TMO_Recommendations_05_November_2013.pdf>
on Transparency of Media Ownership.

We are seeking endorsements from all civil society organisations, media
freedom and journalists groups who wish to see greater availability of
information about who really owns the media.

The Ten Recommendations on Transparency of Media Ownership were drafted
after extensive research into law and practice across Europe, conducted
by Access Info Europe and the Open Society Program on Independent
Journalism
<http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/about/programs/independent-journalism>
across Europe.

The Recommendations have already been subject to a public consultation
in which over 100 media experts participated. They have been widely
welcomed and discussed at events held by the European Commission in
Brussels and have been presented to international organisations such as
the Council of Europe and the OSCE.

    *The Goal of the Signature Campaign*

Access Info Europe is now calling for organisations and media to endorse
the 10 Recommendations in a first step to demand governments for
stronger legislation on this issue. You can endorse this campaign by
clicking here
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1QIr3i5wQBp54Ygp-eEbLkl3mHOWCuN5wedzaCS162L8/viewform>.

<http://docs.google.com/forms/d/1QIr3i5wQBp54Ygp-eEbLkl3mHOWCuN5wedzaCS162L8/viewform>

    *The Research*

Access Info Europe and the Open Society Media Program conducted research
and analysis in 20 countries (19 European countries plus Morocco), which
revealed that the legal framework in most countries is insufficient to
guarantee transparency of media ownership. Some of the key findings were:

*»* In only 9 of the 20 countries can the public find out who the actual
owners of the broadcast media are from reporting to media regulators or
to company registers.

*»* Disclosure to media regulators of beneficial (ultimate) owners of
media outlets is not currently required in most of the countries.

*»* There is no unified or standard approach to collecting or requiring
disclosure to the public of media ownership data, particularly with
regard to print and online media.

    *Campaign Pack*

All the documentation about this campaign – along with the campaign’s
most FAQs and the research’s full data – can be found in the ‘TMO
Advocacy Pack’, which you can download here
<http://avada.access-info.org/wp-content/uploads/Advocacy-Pack-Transparency-of-Media-Ownership.zip>
and includes the following information:

  * A report on the whole of the investigations and its findings;
  * The 10 Transparency of Media Ownership Recommendations issuing from
    this research;
  * A series of interviews to journalists, academics and media a Freedom
    of Information experts, on media transparency;
  * Five individual in-depth country case studies on the different
    levels of media ownership transparency.

All the information, interviews, the country-by-country analysis, and
any other news and updates, is available here:
http://www.access-info.org/media-ownership-transparency

      For more information, please contact:

Victoria Anderica | Access Info Europe
victoria at access-info.org <mailto:victoria at access-info.org> +34 606 592 976

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