Does it compromise our editorial independence on what can still be a highly divisive issue?
It has a soft spot for the centre-right, but insists on a healthy editorial independence.
Mr Sarkozy insisted that Mr Arnault would respect the paper's editorial independence and would invest in its future.
The paper says the recommendation is likely to raise concerns within the BBC about the corporation's editorial independence.
That same year a BBC venture in Saudi Arabia collapsed after the kingdom refused to give editorial independence to the British.
The main objective was to assess the editorial independence of public service broadcasting (PSB) television in these countries and to sensitize media and advocacy groups on media freedom.
Perhaps Mr Murdoch will make a mess of the Wall Street Journal by undermining its editorial independence though surely he is too shrewd a businessman to mess with so valuable a brand.
Papers such as El Financiero, a Mexico city business daily, and El Norte, a Monterrey paper (and later its metropolitan sister, Reforma), succeeded in attracting enough private-sector advertising to win editorial independence.
That's just a fact of life, and one which, for the most part, is outweighed by the benefits of editorial independence, no advertising breaks, and a name that is known across the world.
He stressed the importance for each countries and each broadcaster to find an appropriate local system for ensuring editorial independence from the government and to be at the service of the entire public.
In response, the magazine emphasised its editorial independence.
The 18 "guardians" of the Reuter Trust Principles said in a statement Tuesday that they had worked closely with Thomson and Reuters over the last week to ensure the company's code of editorial independence would be upheld after the takeover.
During the testimony, Mr. Murdoch, asked about editorial independence at his papers, said Harold Evans, former editor of The Times who left in the 1980s, once behind closed doors asked him what he wanted him to say in the paper.
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Under the leadership of Paul Steiger, a former senior editor at the Wall Street Journal, and with strong safeguards of its editorial independence, it has started to produce scoops good enough to run in the New York Times, which gets them free.
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Drafting the conclusions, the Panel's Chairman Mogens Schmidt, UNESCO's Deputy Assistant Director General for Communication and Information Sector, said that the successful establishment of an truly independent PSB requires a mix of legal preconditions, economical and editorial independence, capacity building of professionals, and accountability towards the public.
What will disturb News Corporation is that Ofcom and the OFT will reconsider whether the undertakings given by News Corporation to protect the editorial independence of Sky News are adequate, in the light of disclosures about the extent to which the News of the World was a law unto itself within the organisation.
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Delegates overwhelmingly endorsed a motion calling for the protection of the channel's editorial and financial independence.
The agreement states that "S4C shall retain its editorial and managerial independence from the BBC at all times".
Iestyn Garlick, chairman of the Welsh independent producers organisation TAC, said they welcomed assurances about S4C's editorial and managerial independence.
The BBC Trust and S4C Authority have drawn up a plan to ensure the editorial and managerial independence of S4C.
Under the terms of the deal, a five-member special committee will be established to assure the journalistic and editorial integrity and independence of Dow Jones' publications and services, including the WSJ.
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