Nessa Childers MEP
‘Media Diversity: why does it matter?’ Conference programme & Speaker presentations
Radisson Blu, Golden Lane, Dublin 8 - Monday 6th February 2012
(Copy of presentations inserted beside each speaker's name)
09.00 Coffee and registration
09.30 Session 1 - Chair: Professor John Horgan, The Press Ombudsman.
Nessa Childers MEP - Opening Address. Read Nessa's speech here
09.40 Media ownership in the European Union: trends and regulation
Dr. Alison Harcourt –Exeter University, author of European Union Institutions and the Regulations of Media Markets, on regulation of traditional and new media markets at European and EU members state levels. Read a copy of Alison Harcourt's speech here
Discussion
10.20 Panel: Media Ownership in Ireland. Chair: Karen Coleman, Broadcaster, Journalist & Author.
Dr Roddy Flynn - School of Communications, Dublin City University on up-to-date data on media ownership trends in Ireland. Read a copy of Roddy Flynn's speech here
Michael O’Keeffe, Broadcasting Authority of Ireland – on review of legislative framework regarding public interest aspects of media mergers and on proposed reform of aspects of competition law including media mergers.
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Need for legislation to regulate Media Ownership highlighted at Media Diversity Conference
Primacy of Competition laws & failure to regulate is having detrimental effect on workers’ conditions and freedom of the press
A National Conference heard that in order to ensure media diversity it is essential that legislation to regulate Media Ownership must be introduced.
The conference Media Diversity: Why does it matter? which was organised by Ireland East Labour MEP, Nessa Childers was aimed at exploring the implications for traditional notions of democratic accountability and journalistic independence given the emergence and dominance of multi-national media corporations.
Nessa Childers welcomed the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Pat Rabbitte recent announcement that this year Ireland we will see the publication of a bill to regulate media mergers. “We need to protect diversity in Ireland and seriously look at the lessons from the situation in the UK, both in terms of media ownership and journalist ethics”.
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2012 Survey of Irish Journalists attitude to media ownership and diversity
I launched a report today on Irish Journalists' attitude to media ownership and diversity, the research was commissioned to coincide with the conference Media Diversity: Why does it matter?
See ful report here 2012 Survey of Irish Journalists. The study was conducted with the assistance of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ). Respondents ranged from Broadcast, Print and online media.
The survey shows 77% of Journalists believe media diversity is at risk due to trends in Media Ownership. One fifth (20.3%) say media owners have editorial influence on their work, and almost half believe growth of internet protects media diversity
The survey also found that almost half (49.5%) of the journalists taking part in the survey believe growth of internet protects media diversity but 61% agreed that regulation in Ireland’s print media is needed.
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Cancer Survivors urged never to start smoking because of heightened risk of secondary cancer
Nessa Childers MEP
'Saving lives a second time'
Speech delivered to the ‘Irish Conference on Survivorship after Cancer during Childhood and Adolescence’, held on November 26 2011
Introduction
Fellow speakers and distinguished guests- as a politician, it's not often I'm able to stand in a room and feel that most of the people I'm speaking with are in broad agreement on an issue, so this is a privilege.
We're all here today with the single purpose of saving lives. Most of us dedicate ourselves to this professionally on a daily basis. Specifically, I'm going to speak about preventing secondary cancers in child-hood cancer survivors, by persuading them not to smoke. So, distinguished collegues, I hope you'll forgive me if I skip ahead a bit today and concentrate on saving lives a second time around.
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