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by Ana Ribeiro
Over the past 10 years, violence and abuse have skyrocketed against media workers and whistle-blowers from the 47 Council of Europe (CoE) member countries and Belarus – threatening their role as public watchdogs. Problems have multiplied and also diversified with the growing reach of the internet.
Censorship, via many different tactics, is a big problem across the media landscape in Europe. (Photo: Public domain)
The Council on 20 April released a report that surveyed 940 journalists in Europe last year on “serious unwarranted interference in their work”. Nearly one-third of the journalists said they had been physically assaulted over the…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Although, officially, Montenegro doesn't have any problem with media concentration, two or three owners control most of the media. For some, this is not a major commitment, as they are primarily engaged in other businesses
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
Gasperini did not want to meet the journalists present. Matteo Spini had sought to verify the bad feelings towards him. Protest from trade unions It was not one of the many debates between reporter and coach. On April 14, 2017, in Bergamo, the Atalanta coach, Gian Piero Gasperini, asked for the removal of the journalist
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
3 May. Ossigeno celebrate the World Press Freedom Day in Roma A ceremony at the “memory stone wall”, a conference at the Italian Senate and, in the evening, a free admission concert in memory of killed journalists Italy. 10 threats between 15th and 21st April, 2017 This week, Ossigeno has verified and made know 10 cases
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
from www.coe.int – The most common interference, reported by 69% of the journalists, was psychological violence, including intimidation, threats, slandering and humiliation A survey published by the Council of Europe, based on a sample of 940 journalists reporting from the 47 Council of Europe member states and Belarus, shows that journalists in Europe are often
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
from www.osce.org – The meeting was the second event of the “Cyprus Dialogue”, launched by the Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media in March NICOSIA, 25 April 2017 – At an OSCE-led meeting in Nicosia today, representatives of Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot journalists, together with international media freedom experts, discussed
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Despite the law adopted three years ago, media ownership in Serbia remains unclear and privatisation has failed to eradicate the influence of power over editorial policies
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
by Jane Whyatt
An app deisgned by the Turkish-British Alp Toker has been honoured with a Freedom of Expression prize. It aims to beat back censorship and the online blocking of critical journalists in Turkey.
Alp Toker becomes one of four Index fellows receiving Freedom of Expression Awards in different categories, 20 April 2017.
Toker's Turkey Blocks received the Digital Activism Award from Index on Censorship at a recent ceremony in London. And now the inventor and technologist aims to offer the application to groups in other countries where critical reporting and individual journalists or NGOs are censored online.
“Our alerts, issued within…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
A ceremony at the “memory stone wall”, a conference at the Italian Senate and, in the evening, a free admission concert in memory of killed journalists Next May 3rd Ossigeno per l’Informazione will hold three initiatives to celebrate in Roma the “World Press Freedom Day” and commemorate journalists killed because of their work. A conference and a training course
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
from www.balcanicaucaso.org – Rewarded their collective investigative work on corruption and crime Last April 20th in Amsterdam the Serbian Center for Investigative Journalism (CINS) received the European press prize 2017. Their work, wrote the prize jury, shed light on unknown cases of corruption and on a too often inefficient legal system. The collective, as already
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
