The Council of Europe and Reporters Without Borders are organising a conference in Strasbourg on 20 March to discuss public policies aimed at strengthening media pluralism.
Held under the theme “Media Pluralism how can we deliver?”, the conference will explore how existing media legislation and policies regulating media ownership and control can be applied to the new media environment, where new online actors have assumed an essential role in distributing content and shaping public opinion.
The conference, which brings together policy makers, academics, journalists and regulators, will also tackle the impact of media literacy on media consumption and public opinion as well as the role it can play against disinformation.
Another aim is to provide an insight into standards on media pluralism, ownership and literacy, and the way to apply them in practice, including the guidelines that the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers adopted in a Recommendation in 2018.
Jan Kleijssen, director of Information Society and Action against Crime, and Michael Rediske, president of Reporters Without Borders International will speak at the opening.
