"media reform"

PANEL EXAMINES SUSPICIONS OVER BROADCASTERS’ BAILOUT, BEMOANS SETBACK FOR MEDIA FREEDOM

The junta-appointed media reform committee has stood firm that, despite long-going opposition from media organisations, state authority has to play a part in media reform.

IN ANOTHER bid to achieve media reform, media professionals yesterday called for a legal change to allow television broadcasters to return some of their owned frequencies to regulators.

​​​​​​​With the media reform committee under the National Reform Steering Assembly (NRSA) planning to submit tomorrow its media reform proposal, which includes the controversial media regulation bill, to the government, the committee’s chairman Air Chief Marshal Kanit Suwannet speaks to The Nation’s Piyaporn Wongruang about the progress of their work as well as the philosophy behind the bill.

The media reform committee of the National Reform Steering Assembly (NRSA) is mulling how to categorise media, following a heated debate on the draft media regulation bill during an assembly meeting on Monday.

The media reform committee has insisted on pushing forward with the media regulation bill despite strong opposition by media organisations.

THE HEAD of the media reform committee has confirmed that the latest revision of the media regulation bill would not include more major changes and that it could enter the whips’ office of the National Reform Steering Assembly (NRSA) late this month or early May.

The media reform committee under the National Reform Steering Assembly (NRSA) resolved on Monday that there should indeed be a licensing system for media personnel, which would come with penalties for those failing to register.

THE MEDIA reform committee has failed to reach a decision on the controversial composition of the media council stipulated in the new draft media regulation bill.

Questions raised over media ethics and behaviour

MEMBERS of the National Reform Council's media reform committee yesterday agreed to adjust some controversial elements in the draft press-freedom protection law endorsed by the NRC last Monday on July 20, committee member Pradit Ruangdit said.