Activities of Jean-Marie CAVADA related to 2010/2015(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT Report on journalism and new media - creating a public sphere in Europe PDF (215 KB) DOC (132 KB)
Legal basis opinions (0)
Amendments (26)
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)
Recital K a (new)
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K b (new)
Recital K b (new)
Kb. whereas, in its search for public legitimacy in the Member States, the European Union should foster the establishment of trans-national media that can give Europe a new democratic and independent dimension, while tightening up the rules intended to safeguard pluralism and combat concentration of media ownership,
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K c (new)
Recital K c (new)
Kc. whereas the emergence of new communication tools has transformed all branches of journalism and the media industry, prompting a rethink of the methods traditionally employed in the sector,
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K d (new)
Recital K d (new)
Kd. whereas information technologies enable anyone to create and share content on blogs, and whereas social networks have changed habits and brought a new dimension to news provision; whereas these phenomena have transformed journalism,
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K e (new)
Recital K e (new)
Ke. whereas over the past few years social networks have become a central Web 2.0 feature, and whereas an increasing number of journalists are using such networks as a source of, or means of disseminating, information,
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K f (new)
Recital K f (new)
Kf. whereas social media are used to some extent in researching and producing various types of articles and are used by journalists to publish, share and promote their articles,
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K g (new)
Recital K g (new)
Kg. whereas journalism is an important gauge of democracy and should guarantee free access to a wide range of views,
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that the lack of online news and information on the EU and its institutions is not the problem; notes that all the institutions have launched their own news platforms, which fail, however,should be made more accessible to EU citizens since, at the moment, they fail to captivate the public;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Highlights thehow importance of hiring media professionals from outside the EU institutions as press officers att it is for the Commission’s representations and Parliament’s information offices in the Member States, who would have the task of to playing an active and visible role in national debates on European issues and to disseminate information;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Stresses the need to set up a group of correspondents from among the specialised, accredited journalists in Brussels, whose role would be to cover European news in a more instructive manner while guaranteeing editorial independence, with the purpose of this ‘taskforce’ being to provide information in a manner that is fully transparent and accessible to the EU public;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Suggests developing EuroparlTV, further integrating it into Parliament’s internet strategy and stepping up the distribution of its content to TV channels and online mediatresses the importance of EuroparlTV, which enables Parliament’s plenary and committee proceedings to be broadcast live and suggests integrating it into Parliament’s internet strategy; emphasises, however, that EuroparlTV is a very useful tool, although appropriate adjustments must be made to its status to ensure its editorial independence;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Finds the recent decrease in the number of accredited journalists in Brussels extremely worrying; and considers this new state of affairs to be in the interests of neither the European institutions nor the accredited press in Brussels; calls therefore on the European institutions to cooperate more closely with the representatives of the press in Brussels and to display greater openness towards them;
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Calls on the Commission to be open to all means of communication, to have greater contact with journalists and the media and to support all projects and initiatives aiming to better inform the public on European affairs;
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 b (new)
Paragraph 26 b (new)
26b. Urges journalists and other media professionals to come together to discuss and consider the European journalism of tomorrow;
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 c (new)
Paragraph 26 c (new)
26c. Stresses that the Member States must come up with viable concepts for the European media that go beyond merely passing on information and enable them to contribute fully to the EU’s cultural and linguistic diversity;
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 d (new)
Paragraph 26 d (new)
26d. Stresses, however, that, although social networks are a relatively good way of disseminating information rapidly, their reliability as sources cannot always be sufficiently guaranteed and they cannot be considered to be professional media;
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 e (new)
Paragraph 26 e (new)
26e. Underlines that the way in which data is handled on social network platforms can in many cases be dangerous and give rise to serious breaches of journalistic ethics and that caution is therefore required when taking up these new tools;
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 f (new)
Paragraph 26 f (new)
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 g (new)
Paragraph 26 g (new)
26g. Highlights the crucial role of journalists in a modern society faced with a barrage of information, since they alone can bring significant added value to information by using their professionalism, ethics, skill and credibility to make sense of the news;
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 h (new)
Paragraph 26 h (new)
26h. Stresses the need for journalists and media professionals to remain alert to developments in their ever-changing professions and to take advantage of the possibilities offered by social networks, which are likely to enable them to expand their knowledge networks and facilitate what could be called ‘web monitoring’;
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 i (new)
Paragraph 26 i (new)
26i. Observes with interest that, despite the irreversible emergence of social networks, journalism has kept its key role in news broadcasting since journalists use these highly diverse networks to carry out in-depth research and check facts, thus giving rise to a new model of participatory journalism and furthering the dissemination of information;
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 j (new)
Paragraph 26 j (new)
26j. Points out that the quality and independence of the media can be guaranteed only by means of rigorous professional and social standards;