„Without the Ombudsman Polish citizens will not have an independent equality body what may also undermine the implementation of the EU law in Poland”, says Adam Bodnar, the Polish Ombudsman.
Poland’s politically compromised Constitutional Court has ruled a specific article of Ombudsman Act unconstitutional. In effect, the current Commissioner
Adam Bodnar will be removed from office within three months and possibly replaced by a ruling camp loyalist.
What does it mean for Polish democracy and human rights and is it only a part of a wider effort to increase government’s control of the media?
Listen to the latest episode of the Poland in Focus series with Poland’s Ombudsman Adam Bodnar.
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Pandemic has not had significant consequences for the freedom of speech of CEE countries, since in most of them (apart from Ukraine) the situation had already been deteriorating before the onset of COVID-19 – writes Karolina Zbytniewska, chief editor at EURACTIV Poland.
COVID-19 and the Quality of Media Publications
The fact that the number of coronavirus cases began to rise, stimulated a similar rise in the public’s demand for information. First of all, because people were simply concerned and confused, which spurred their demand for knowledge about the public health situation. For instance, in Poland the percentage of people worried was growing day-by-day and reached 75 per cent by mid-March 2020. Consequently, more people stayed at home and checked the situation online, especially the medical sections of online papers and news channels were promoted to the forefront or simply created to meet the soaring demand.
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Mwilu) As for so many other sectors, the COVID-19 pandemic has also left its marks on the media landscape world-wide. But has it really been a game-changer, or has it just accelerated and reinforced pre-existing trends? This report, published by the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) Media Programme, seeks to investigate the diverse consequences that COVID-19 has had on the media landscape in different regions of the world. The overarching question is whether the pandemic presents a turning point for the media landscape, or whether it reinforces preexisting trends. Eleven experts and practitioners (including academics, journalists, and editors) assess the impact of COVID-19 on nine world regions and countries, with a focus on four parameters: quality of media coverage, the economic situation of media outlets, digitisation, and f
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