Media Ownership -- 3 International Quick Hits

NORWAY PLANS TO TIGHTEN MEDIA OWNERSHIP RULES
[SOURCE: Reuters]
Norway's government said on Friday that it planned to tighten media ownership limits, which would curb growth opportunities at home for Norway's top media group, Schibsted. Culture Minister Trond Giske said that companies could not have more than a third of the total daily circulation of all newspapers, a third of total television viewers or a third of the total radio audience. The current limit is 40 percent.
http://today.reuters.com/business/newsarticle.aspx?type=media&storyID=nL...

KENYA PLANS NEW RULES
[SOURCE: journalism.co.za]
The Kenyan government will regulate cross-media ownership, training and remuneration of journalists. Information and Communications minister Mutahi Kagwe on Wednesday said cross-ownership would be addressed to ensure that Kenyans got a variety of voices. Kagwe said control of ownership was necessary considering that frequencies were an expensive public resource that should benefit all. He said the public had a right to choose from a multiplicity of voices in a free market of ideas.
http://www.journalism.co.za/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=articl...

THE FREEDOM TO DESCRIBE DICTATORSHIP
[SOURCE: Washington Post, AUTHOR: Jackson Diehl]
[Commentary] A look at the importance of the newspaper al-Masri al-Yom, or the Daily Egyptian, a new voice in the country.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/26/AR200603...
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