Course Details

1. Recognize the theoretical background and relevant terms mostly focused on the media law and journalistic ethics, aiming at clarifying to the future media worker the legal framework of the institutional regulation of the main aspects of the industry, and the boundaries of exercising this profession.
2. Review and analyze the evolutionary developments of the local media law up to the current legal framework is included. This helps the student to better interpret the current status quo
3. Analyze the major and most useful to the journalist provisions of the mass media laws for written and audiovisual outlets, including libel cases and the pragmatic application of the right of expression.
4. Evaluate journalistic ethics where analysis of meanings and focus on current problems in coverage.

Review of the theoretical background and explanation of the relevant jargon in the regard to the media law framework.

Review of the evolution of the media law, structured on local topography.

Presentation of the legal framework of the most basic laws and statutes which regulate the media industry, both the print and the audiovisual, the public and the private.

Analytical explanation of most important provisions of the media laws   

• Κυριακός Π. Κούρος, Το Δίκαιο των Μέσων Μαζικής Ενημέρωσης στη Δημοκρατία της Κύπρου – Σκιαγράφηση της εξελικτικής διαμόρφωσης του νομικού πλαισίου του τύπου από τον 18ο αιώνα μέχρι σήμερα, Λευκωσία 2008
• Κώδικας Δημοσιογραφικής Δεοντολογίας,Έκδοση Ένωσης Συντακτών Κύπρου

This course is delivered to the students by means of lectures, supplemented with panel discussions in order for the students to familiarize with the critical approach to the needs and applications of the mass media regulations