22 July 2016

Media Policy Briefing

This month’s edition of the Media Policy Briefing features a detailed account of the Global Media Policy Forum, held in June 2016 and focused on zero-rating intiatives.

Other policy higlights include developments in Europe on right to be forgotten with worrying consequences for the media, and the varied responses to the approval of the EU–US Privacy Shield data transfer agreement.

To read more about WAN-IFRA's policy activities and focus areas, go here.

Please note that during August, our media policy news monitoring service will be on holiday. We wish you all a relaxing break.

Zero-rating the news: highlights from the Global Media Policy Forum

This account from the recent WAN-IFRA event provides some guidelines for news publishers on how to approach zero-rating services, as well as discussing their broader implications to the news media and information ecosystems.

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The transformation of Right to be Forgotten into Right to Forget the News

Lately European courts have taken troubling decisions on right to be forgotten grounds, resulting in unprecedented constraints to news media. Less than two months after the Belgian paper Le Soirs case, Italian Supreme Court adopts an even more disturbing ruling for its consequences on freedom of expression.

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Privacy Shield: "doomed" or "a very durable framework"?

Responses to last week's approval of the EU–US Privacy Shield agreement have varied greatly: while some regard it as hardly an improvement over Safe Harbour, others have called the deal as a step forward, especially as it ends the previously uncertain legal standing of data transfers from Europe to the US.

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World News Media Outlook Survey

We are asking for your participation in what we believe will be an incredibly insightful survey and report. The World News Media OUTLOOK 2016 aims to provide news executives like you with the cutting-edge intelligence you need to benchmark your company’s performance  - and to help you devise innovative strategies to ensure your business's future success.

The Innovation Research Group (IRG), in association with the University of Central Lancashire and the University of Oxford, and WAN-IFRA are conducting this 7th annual global study that aims to better understand and quantify our industry's responses to the challenges across the news company value chain. There are 20 questions, and it will take you about 10 to 12 minutes to complete the survey. You would then receive a summary of the final OUTLOOK report, along with an invitation to a special webinar hosted by WAN-IFRA.

PLEASE NOTE: The survey is available in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, as well as English

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