Tag: Demiroren
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Turkish journalists win landmark case against Demirören Media over union rights
A local court has ruled that Demirören, one of the largest media corporations in Turkey, violated the unionization rights of its employees when it dismissed dozens of journalists from the daily Hürriyet two years ago. Demirören Media Group’s flagship newspaper Hürriyet had fired 45 unionized journalists, including senior reporters and editors, in October 2019 in
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Google announces financial support to Turkey’s controversial pro-gov’t media group
A controversial pro-government media group has been named as the only recipient from Turkey for Google’s journalism innovation fund. The Google News Initiative (GNI) was originally launched by the U.S.-based platform “to help journalism thrive in the digital age” and “to inject new ideas into the news industry.” For the first time in its history,