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#iComment: Germany’s on- and offline crusade against hate speech

by Ana Ribeiro After cyberhate-related raids last summer, German authorities are pressing on against hate speech, with Justice Minister Heiko Maas perhaps as their most publicly active voice. One of their main targets is Facebook, and their efforts are getting quite a bit of media attention at home and abroad. The New York Times spoke with Maas in November 2016 and portrayed Germany as being in the forefront of “a growing push around the world to regulate what users are allowed to post online. (…) Germany has become an important test case globally for how the social network polices what may…

Source: European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)

Nine threats between 2 and 8 december, 2016

This week, Ossigeno has verified and made know 9 cases of intimidation against journalists and information operators. Targeted because of their work: Marina Mingarelli; Antonio Sasso, Roberto Paolo; Giuseppe De Tomaso, Massimo Scagliarini; Concita De Gregorio, Natalia Lombardo, Silvia Ballestra, editore. They are 5 men and 4 women. The methods of intimidation, according to the Ossigeno classification method, fall

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

Public Service Television in the Western Balkans: A Mission Impossible

Recent years have brought about new challenges to media landscapes across Europe. Pressures from commercial broadcasters and declining audiences have been compounded by political and financial pressures that have led to questions about the very existence, role and purpose of public service broadcasting. An event held at the LSE last week addressed the future of public service media in Europe. […]

Source: Media Policy Project

FootballLeaks: Spanish judge requests to block revelations involving Real Madrid stars

by Ana Ribeiro A Spanish judge is trying to get 12 European media outlets to stop publishing any information related to Football Leaks. The gigantic leak points to tax evasion and other alleged irregular financial practices and deals involving stars from Real Madrid, FC Chelsea and other European football clubs. (montage: ECPMF) The judge’s injunction from 2 December 2016 covers data related to clients of Senn Ferrero, the firm providing legal and fiscal counsel to those cited in the leaks. Julian Senn, partner at Senn Ferrero, once served as director general of Real Madrid and then turned to providing tax advice for…

Source: European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)

Latina and Velletri. Reporters of Il Messaggero attacked in front of prisons

They are Marco Cusumano and a fotoreporter. They were documenting the release of some of those arrested in the Olimpia Operation On November 28, 2016 there were moments of tension, outside of the prisons of Latina and Velletri, between journalists and relatives of some of the people released from prison by the Court of Review

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

Digital Inequality: Disadvantaged Young People Experience Higher Barriers to Digital Engagement

Britain is rapidly digitising, increasing opportunities across a wide range of areas in our everyday lives, from interacting, to being informed and to undertaking transactions more rapidly and at lower cost. Yet, both academic and policy research show that the benefits achieved from digital engagement are not distributed equally. Dr. Ellen Helsper, an expert on digital inequality and Associate Professor […]

Source: Media Policy Project

Calabria. Yet another agression against Klaus Davi

The journalist was insulted and jostled in Gioia Tauro by a man in front of the door of the house of the lawyer Piromalli, acquitted from a mafia trial On November 26, 2016 the mass-media expert and journalist Klaus Davi was again attacked in Calabria, this time in Gioia Tauro (in the province of Reggio

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

Sports. Rome coach Mediaset reporter a liar

Luciano Spalletti accused during the press conference the journalist Marco Cherubini of having reported false information in an article. ODG and USSI intervened On November 23, 2016, Luciano Spalletti, the head coach of AS Roma, attacked during the press conference the reporter from Mediaset Marco Cherubini, accusing him of being a liar and of having

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

Spain. PDLI criticized the bill on the right to the honour

Madrid, 7th of November 2016 – The Platform for de defence of freedom of information (PDLI) voiced its concerns about the impending reformation of the Organic law for the protection of the right to honour, personal and family intimacy and public figure, proposed by the Popular Parlamentary Group. “Experience teaches us that, when you regulate

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

The IPI World Congress will be held in Hamburg

The International Press Institute annual World Congress will be held between the 18th and the 20th of May 2017 in Hamburg, Germany. The congress will be attended by over 300 journalists, editors and media executives. Read more PC

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione