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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Von:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Access Info Europe [mailto:info@access-info.org]
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<b>Gesendet:</b> Mittwoch, 4. März 2015 16:02<br>
<b>An:</b> Christian Mihr | Reporter ohne Grenzen<br>
<b>Betreff:</b> Join the Campaign for Transparency of Media Ownership<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h1>Join the Campaign for Transparency of Media Ownership<o:p></o:p></h1>
<p><strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#E3220E">»</span></strong>
<em><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">In only 2 out of 20 countries analysed is it possible to know who really owns the media.</span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#E3220E">»</span></strong>
<em><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">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.</span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
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4 March 2014</span></em> – Today <a href="http://www.access-info.org/"><b>Access Info Europe</b></a> is opening for signature the
<a href="http://www.access-info.org/wp-content/uploads/TMO_Recommendations_05_November_2013.pdf" target="_blank">
<b>Ten Recommendations</b></a> on Transparency of Media Ownership.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>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
<a href="http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/about/programs/independent-journalism" target="_blank">
<b>Open Society Program on Independent Journalism</b></a> across Europe.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h2><strong><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">The Goal of the Signature Campaign</span></strong><o:p></o:p></h2>
<p>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
<a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1QIr3i5wQBp54Ygp-eEbLkl3mHOWCuN5wedzaCS162L8/viewform" target="_blank">
<b>here</b></a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><a href="http://docs.google.com/forms/d/1QIr3i5wQBp54Ygp-eEbLkl3mHOWCuN5wedzaCS162L8/viewform"><b><span style="text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="237" height="49" id="_x0000_i1025" src="http://www.access-info.org/wp-content/uploads/TMO_Endorse_Button.jpg" hspace="2" vspace="2"></span></b></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<h2><strong><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">The Research</span></strong><o:p></o:p></h2>
<p>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:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#E3220E">»</span></strong> 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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#E3220E">»</span></strong> Disclosure to media regulators of beneficial (ultimate) owners of media outlets is not currently required in most of the countries.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#E3220E">»</span></strong> 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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h2><strong><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Campaign Pack</span></strong><o:p></o:p></h2>
<p>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
<a href="http://avada.access-info.org/wp-content/uploads/Advocacy-Pack-Transparency-of-Media-Ownership.zip" target="_blank">
<b>here</b></a> and includes the following information:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">A report on the whole of the investigations and its findings;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">The 10 Transparency of Media Ownership Recommendations issuing from this research;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">A series of interviews to journalists, academics and media a Freedom of Information experts, on media transparency;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Five individual in-depth country case studies on the different levels of media ownership transparency.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p>All the information, interviews, the country-by-country analysis, and any other news and updates, is available here:
<a href="http://www.access-info.org/media-ownership-transparency"><b>http://www.access-info.org/media-ownership-transparency</b></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<h3>For more information, please contact:<o:p></o:p></h3>
<p>Victoria Anderica | Access Info Europe<br>
<a href="mailto:victoria@access-info.org"><b>victoria@access-info.org</b></a> +34 606 592 976<o:p></o:p></p>
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