Audit boss says state subsidies for media defeats notion of free press
Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides suggested on Thursday that government schemes to support the media did not serve the purpose of having free press. Speaking in parliament...
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Media pluralism under threat everywhere
By Nicholas Karides Never before have the media, that is the civically useful type that produce independent quality journalism, come under such relentless pressure and...
Audit Office queries state grants to the media
State grants to the media must be rationalised so as to avoid potentially creating a situation of patronage, the Audit Office has said. In a...
Free press in north under scrutiny after TV station axed
The decision by Turkey’s radio and television broadcasting authority (RTUK) to cut a Turkish Cypriot station’s satellite broadcasts last week has stirred debate in the...
Coronavirus: Cyprus problem-obsessed media change tack
The national issue is now firmly on the back burner of our Cyprus problem-loving media with coronavirus-related items totally dominating the pages of the newspapers,...
UK media blitz over verdict against British teen
THE case of the British teenager found guilty of lying about being gang-raped in Ayia Napa by 12 Israeli men, has been the main news...
Corrupt media outlets are well known, AG says
Attorney-general Costas Clerides said Tuesday the media that waged war against him and the state auditor revealed themselves on a daily basis through the ridiculous...
Police officer suspected of leaking log entry to media in murder-suicide case
Police on Friday confirmed reports than an officer was being investigated for leaking sensitive case information to the media in a murder-suicide that happened in...
Popular Russian channel to air in Cyprus from October
A new television channel featuring Russian content will be available on the Velister digital platform in the coming October, according to reports. It will retransmit...
Outgoing CBC chief says she was bullied and deeply hurt by media coverage
Outgoing central bank (CBC) Governor Chrystalla Georghadji said she had been bullied and deeply hurt by certain stories during her five-year term in office,...
State to revamp CyBC, cut political-party fodder (Updated)
The government will amend legislation to reduce the state broadcaster’s blanket coverage of political parties’ announcements and boost proper news reporting, Interior Minister Constantinos Petrides...
Amazon’s Bezos says N.Enquirer owner tried to blackmail him
By Jeffrey Dastin and Nandita Bose WASHINGTON, Feb 7 (Reuters) – Jeff Bezos, chief executive of Amazon.com Inc, has accused the owner of the National...
TV watchdog waiting for bribe allegation briefing
The radio and television authority (CRA) said on Monday that it has yet to receive any official briefing regarding recent allegations that two of its...
Church and politicians have ‘great influence’ over Cypriot media
Cyprus climbed five places to 25th in the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) press freedom index, which noted, however, the influence exerted by the church and...
Media violated ethics code in child killing case, watchdog says
The media ethics committee said Thursday that news outlets had violated the ethics code and were prejudiced and racist among others, when reporting the recent...
Cabinet bans state-broadcaster CyBC from airing ads
The council of ministers decided on Wednesday to ban state-broadcaster CyBC from airing paid advertising spots and engaging in telemarketing, the Press and Information Office (PIO)...
US man charged in ‘enemy of the people’ threats to Boston Globe
A California man has been charged with threatening to kill Boston Globe employees in retaliation for the newspaper’s role in leading an editorial defense of press freedoms...
Young Cypriot wins prestigious British journalist award
The 2018 Anthony Howard Award for Young Journalists has been awarded to Cyprus-born reporter Eleni Courea. Courea, 23, won the prize for her proposal to...
Anastasiades says reality cannot be brushed under the carpet
By Andria Kades President Nicos Anastasiades joined the bandwagon on Thursday voicing his opposition to a glossary which its authors have described as an innocuous...
AG says media persecution claims are just hype
By George Psyllides and Peter Michaels Attorney-general Costas Clerides on Friday rubbished claims by some media that the police probe into the leaked emails of...
