New Report Explores Media Transparency in Europe
Who owns the media in Europe? Who has the power over the information we receive? And who can safeguard against monopolies becoming too powerful a voice in the media landscape? While European media players are looking to form super groups with enough reach and scale to count among the global players, one may wonder who is keeping an eye on the transparency of media ownership. Who are the watchdogs? And who is watching the watchdogs? This timely new report, Transparency of Media Ownership, by the European Audiovisual Observatory, part of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, has spotlighted these issues.