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When researching and then writing a study on how the Cypriot media covered the war in Gaza, published by the Institute for Mass Media and Universitas Publications earlier this year1, I toyed with the idea of including a ‘note for the record’ to state that the study had been free of any usage of MI.

The Institute, supported by the Universitas Foundation, held a closed round-table discussion on the occasion of the release of IMME board member Natalie Alkiviadou’s book ‘Hate Speech and the European Court of Human Rights’

Public broadcasting was always used by governments to manage public opinion. The explosive growth of commercial television in the last quarter of the previous century mitigated the effect introducing a pluralistic landscape, not just in news but across all aspects of TV and radio production. The re-balancing worked for a while but as corporate media began to accumulate more power themselves, they too began to manipulate the news agenda against the public interest.

Universitas Publications and the Institute for Mass Media have just released the study “Media Coverage of Gaza: The case of Cyprus” which explores the notion that a large segment of the media was partly responsible for the normalization of the war and the dehumanization of the Palestinian people.

Article by Nicholas Karides on the killing of journalists in Gaza.

The IPI issued an alert on 25 April over concerns […]

The Institute for Mass Media has launched a pilot News Literacy presentation programme for secondary schools in the context of its Media Freedom Literacy Project.