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New Nordic Think Tank!

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I am honored to be chosen to represent Finland in this new think tank by the Nordic Council of Ministers:

A new Nordic think tank will take a closer look at the tech giants’ influence on democracy in the Nordic Region and come up with proposals for solutions. The think tank, which consists of experts from the Nordic countries, is part of a broader effort by the Nordic ministers for culture in their joint work in this field.

https://www.norden.org/en/news/new-nordic-think-tank-examines-influence-tech-giants

New Policy Brief and Recommendations

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Our policy brief to assess the impact of platformization in Finland. It was created for the inaugural multistakeholder roundtable on platform power and policy solutions. The consequent roundtables address media literacy and EU’s DSA package. More background materials can be found here.

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CORDI has produced a policy brief titled Media Platformisation and Finland: How platforms have impacted the Finnish mediasphere and public life (eds. Esa Sirkkunen et al., 2021). The brief was launched at the conference Media Platformisation and Small Nations, 28-29 October 2021.

The brief gives an overview of challenges as well as empirical accounts of the role of platformisation in different aspects of the Finnish media landscape. It also offers 13 policy recommendations for policymakers and other stakeholders.

You can find the English-language brief and it recommendations in Finnish, here.

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A New Deal for Journalism

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I contributed as an interviewee to this important report of the future of journalism.

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Forum on Information and Democracy is publishing its recommendations for sustainability of journalism under the title A New Deal for Journalism.

The report is structured around four fields of action: media freedom, the independence of journalism, a favorable economic climate, and support for a sustainable digital model.

CORDI has been consulted in the process of drafting this report regarding public service media and journalism.

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PSM Manifesto

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The multi-stakeholder manifesto about the future of PSM has now been published, signed among others by luminaries such as Noam Chomsky and Jurgen Habermas.

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MEDIA EXPERTS PUBLISH AN ALARMING WAKE-UP CALL AND DEMAND A PUBLIC SERVICE INTERNET.

The Public Service Media and Public Service Internet Manifesto is a result of the online discussion and consultation of the #InnoPSM project, Fall 2020-Spring 2021. The effort, spearheaded by Christian Fuchs of the University of Westminster, and Klaus Unterberger of ORF, the Austrian public broadcaster, resulted in the Manifesto that sets the stage for shared values and goals for the future.

The Public Service Media and Public Service Internet Manifesto text: http://bit.ly/psmmanifesto

The Manifesto can be signed here: http://bit.ly/signPSManifesto

#InnoPSM is a part of the CORDI work package on public service media. funded via the University of Westminster and coordinated by Alessandro D’Arma. Minna Horowitz co-coordinates the project on behalf of CORDI.

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