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📌Episode Highlights⏲️[00:00] Intro
⏲️[01:30] Q1 - What does (protecting) media freedom mean to you?
⏲️[04:46] Q2 - What should the EU legislators do or do better to protect media freedom?
⏲️[11:47] Q3 - What are the pitfalls that EU legislators should avoid when trying to protect the media and its freedom?
⏲️[17:47] You have 2 minutes to deliver a message to the powers that be in the EU: make your case.
⏲️[20:20] Outro
📌About Our Guest🎙️ Dr. Damian Tambini | Associate Professor Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics
🐦 https://twitter.com/damiantambini
🌐 ‘Media Freedom’ (2021)
🌐 Dr Damian Tambini
Dr. Damian Tambini is Distinguished Policy Fellow, and Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE, where he also serves as Programme Director for the MSc Media and Communications (Governance). He is the author of many articles on media and communications regulation and policy, as well as the author and editor of several books. His most recent book is ‘Media Freedom’, published in 2021, which was described as essential reading by European Commission Vice-President Věra Jourová over the summer. As an expert in media and communications regulation and policy, Dr. Tambini is frequently called to give evidence to parliamentary committees and provide formal and informal policy advice to governments and international organisations.
📌Episode Highlights⏲️[00:00] Intro
⏲️[01:28] Q1 - What does (protecting) media freedom mean to you?
⏲️[03:40] Q2 - What should the EU legislators do or do better to protect media freedom?
⏲️[06:59] Q3 - What are the pitfalls that EU legislators should avoid when trying to protect the media and its freedom?
⏲️[10:46] You have 2 minutes to deliver a message to the powers that be in the EU: make your case.
⏲️[12:05] Outro
📌About Our Guest
🎙️ Thomas Noppen | Board Member, New Media Denmark
🐦 https://twitter.com/thomasnoppen
🌐 European Media Freedom Act EIMP Position Paper: “Boost media pluralism through a level playing field online”
🌐 European Innovative Media Publishers
🌐 New Media Denmark
Thomas Noppen is a board member and previous chair of New Media Denmark. An organisation which he founded to create a unified political voice for small and medium sized digital and innovative media publications in Denmark. His journalistic experience ranges from hosting a weekend show on Danish national radio to founding and managing an online newspaper before editing a printed design magazine. At a European level, he's part of the steering committee at the European Innovative Media Publishers.
📌Episode Highlights⏲️[00:00] Intro
⏲️[01:18] Q1 - What does (protecting) media freedom mean to you?
⏲️[04:21] Q2 - What should the EU legislators do or do better to protect media freedom?
⏲️[12:13] Q3 - What are the pitfalls that EU legislators should avoid when trying to protect the media and its freedom?
⏲️[20:14] You have 2 minutes to deliver a message to the powers that be in the EU: make your case.
⏲️[22:48] Outro
📌About Our Guest🎙️ Eva Simon | Senior Advocacy Officer, Liberties
🐦 https://twitter.com/evasimon_info
🌐 Joint Statement on the Proposal for the European Media Freedom Act (co-signed by Liberties)
🌐 Liberties' Comment on the EC’s EMFA Proposal
🌐 Liberties
Eva Simon is a senior advocacy officer at the Civil Liberties Union for Europe (Liberties). Liberties is a Berlin-based EU watchdog organisation. Eva works on issues related to the field of freedom of expression and data protection. She is a human rights lawyer with a special focus on digital rights. Besides her EU-level advocacy work, Eva works on strategic litigation across EU member states. She has been active in human rights work for more than fifteen years. Prior to joining the NGO world, Eva worked as a media lawyer and a researcher. She was a research fellow at the Central European University (2006), at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, New York, USA (2005) and at the Technical University of Budapest, Hungary (2001-2005). She has authored expert studies, book chapters and articles on privacy and media freedom.
📌Episode Highlights⏲️[00:00] Intro
⏲️[00:59] Q1 - What does (protecting) media freedom mean to you?
⏲️[05:26] Q2 - What should the EU legislators do or do better to protect media freedom?
⏲️[13:58] Q3 - What are the pitfalls that EU legislators should avoid when trying to protect the media and its freedom?
⏲️[17:46] You have 2 minutes to deliver a message to the powers that be in the EU: make your case.
⏲️[22:03] Outro
📌About Our Guest🎙️ Renate Schroeder | Director, European Federation of Journalists (EFJ)
🐦 https://twitter.com/renatemargot
🌐 Joint Statement on the Proposal for the European Media Freedom Act (co-signed by EFJ)
🌐 European Federation of Journalists
Renate Schroeder is the Director of the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ). In 1993 she joined the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and since 2003 she works for the EFJ. Advocacy at EU and Council of Europe level; presentation of EFJ at international meetings, fact-finding media freedom missions; member of juries of journalistic prizes, project work and advisor of several EFJ expert groups on freelancers, media literacy and digital journalism, cover her work-load in the small dynamic Brussels office. Renate Schroeder studied International Relations and Political Science at Boston University (Bachelor’s Degree in 1988) and in Berlin at the Free University (Masters in 1992). She worked at the United Nations, New York, the research institute FAST in Berlin and the Friedrich-Ebert Foundation in Brussels before she joined the EFJ. She is of German nationality and speaks English, French, Italian, German and Spanish (passive)
📌Episode Highlights
⏲️[00:00] Intro
⏲️[01:18] Q1 - What does (protecting) media freedom mean to you?
⏲️[09:37] Q2 - What should the EU legislators do or do better to protect media freedom?
⏲️[16:45] Q3 - What are the pitfalls that EU legislators should avoid when trying to protect the media and its freedom?
⏲️[24:45] You have 2 minutes to deliver a message to the powers that be in the EU: make your case.
⏲️[27:33] Outro
📌About Our Guest
🎙️ Sebastian Esser | Founder Krautreporter & Steady
🐦 https://twitter.com/sebastianesser
🌐 https://krautreporter.de
🌐 https://steadyhq.com
🌐 https://sebastian-esser.de
Sebastian is a journalist and entrepreneur in Berlin, Germany, and the founder of member-funded digital magazine Krautreporter and of Steady, a membership platform for independent publishers. Krautreporter was crowdfunded in 2014 and publishes one story a day on politics and society. The cooperative specialises in ad-free, independent, engaged journalism. Krautreporter has 17,000 paying members today. Steady, founded in 2017, helps independent publishers easily launch membership programs. It has paid out more than 20 million Euros to 1,500 member-funded publications across Europe so far.
📌Episode Highlights
⏲️[00:00] Intro
⏲️[01:17] Q1 - What does (protecting) media freedom mean to you?
⏲️[05:01] Q2 - What should the EU legislators do or do better to protect media freedom?
⏲️[12:29] Q3 - What are the pitfalls that EU legislators should avoid when trying to protect the media and its freedom?
⏲️[18:43] You have 2 minutes to deliver a message to the powers that be in the EU: make your case.
⏲️[22:55] Outro
📌About Our Guest
🎙️ Tom Gibson | Committee to Protect Journalists
🐦 https://twitter.com/at_tgibson
🌐 https://www.ecpmf.eu/joint-statement-...
🌐 https://cpj.org/
Tom Gibson joined the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) in January 2017 and is CPJ’s lead advocate in Brussels covering the institutions of the European Union. Between 2014 and 2016, Gibson managed Protection International's Burundi and Congo desks, advocating for stronger state accountability for the protection of human rights defenders and journalists as well as developing emergency responses and protection measures. Previously, he worked in Amnesty International's Africa program from 2005 to 2014, based in London and Nairobi, during which he mainly researched human rights violations in the Great Lakes region of Africa.
📌Episode Highlights
⏲️[00:00] Intro
⏲️[01:06] Q1 - What does (protecting) media freedom mean to you?
⏲️[06:55] Q2 - What should the EU legislators do or do better to protect media freedom?
⏲️[12:44] Q3 - What are the pitfalls that EU legislators should avoid when trying to protect the media and its freedom?
⏲️[16:16] You have 2 minutes to deliver a message to the powers that be in the EU: make your case.
⏲️[17:42] Outro
📌About Our Guest
🎙️ Maria Luisa Stasi | ARTICLE 19
🐦 https://twitter.com/isa_stasi
🌐 https://www.article19.org
Maria Luisa Stasi is a competition lawyer by training and the Head of Law and Policy for digital markets at ARTICLE 19, where she contributes to the development of the organisation’s policies with regards to digital and media markets, as well as the internet infrastructure. In addition, she provides legal support to the organisation’s regional offices on digital rights and media policy issues. Maria Luisa is also a researcher at Tilburg University, focusing on pro-competitive remedies for free expression challenges in social media markets. Previously, Maria Luisa coordinated research, policy and capacity building projects at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the European University Institute, and worked for various years as associate competition lawyer at the Italian leading law firm Bonelli Erede.
📌Episode Highlights
⏲️[00:00] Intro
⏲️[01:17] Q1 - What does (protecting) media freedom mean to you?
⏲️[03:23] Q2 - What should the EU legislators do or do better to protect media freedom?
⏲️[05:59] Q3 - What are the pitfalls that EU legislators should avoid when trying to protect the media and its freedom?
⏲️[10:45] You have 2 minutes to deliver a message to the powers that be in the EU: make your case.
⏲️[12:08] Outro
📌About Our Guest
🎙️Prof. Rasmus Kleis Nielsen | Reuters Institute, Oxford University
🐦 https://twitter.com/rasmus_kleis
🌐 https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk
🌐 https://rasmuskleisnielsen.net
Prof. Rasmus Kleis Nielsen is Director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and Professor of Political Communication at the University of Oxford. His research is focused on the changing role of news and media in our societies. He has written extensively about journalism, digital media, the business of news, political communication and related topics in a variety of scholarly articles. He has also edited volumes, and books, including ‘Ground Wars: Personalized Communication in Political Campaigns’ and ‘The Power of Platforms’. He is also co-author of the annual Digital News Report of the Reuters Institute.
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