Media Reform Coalition

Argentine Supreme Court challenges concentration of media ownership

On Tuesday 29 October, the Argentine Supreme Court ruled for the constitutionality of the 2009 Audiovisual Communication Services Act, against which Argentina’s largest media group, Grupo Clarín, had taken up a legal challenge. The ruling orders the implementation of the law which mandates that broadcast licences must be equally split between commercial, public and non-profit organisations. Clarín, which has long argued that the Act affected its property rights, must now immediately comply with the law (as the deadline for compliance has already passed), and divest itself of several cable TV licences.

Hacking trial: Coulson-Brooks affair assists Crown’s conspiracy claim

By Martin Hickman, 31 October 2013 The News of the World ordered the hacking of Milly Dowler’s phone on the same day it sympathised with her distraught parents’ anguish, the phone hacking trial heard today. Milly went missing near her home in Walton on Thames, Surrey, in March 2002, sparking a large public police investigation and a parallel, covert one at the News of the World, the Old Bailey was told.

Argentine Supreme Court challenges concentration of media ownership

Hacking trial: Coulson-Brooks affair assists Crown’s conspiracy claim

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