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Free press is a thermometer of democracy, says the Italian President Mattarella The President of the Republic State define the freedom of press as one of the main democratic balance to the action of power and asked for a more attentive fact checking Around Roma 40% of italian threatened journalists. The alarming concentration The Ossigeno
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
by Jane Whyatt
In today’s Turkey it takes a lot of courage to create a new independent media channel. More than 160 journalists who were critical of the government of President Reccep Tayyip Erdogan are in jail. So to set up Medyascope is a risky enterprise. This online TV news portal was launched on a shoestring with volunteer reporters using the Periscope free app to broadcast live. The channel aims to provide an independent news service, not aligned to any political party or movement. Reporter Cem Öner explains in an interview with ECPMF what drove him to take these risks, and…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Media not aligned with the regime are still under pressure in Serbia. Recently, President Vučić has targeted TV channel N1 for broadcasting exclusive videos that he would rather have hidden
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
The hearing to decide is scheduled for December 2017. The brothers Gaetano and Giuseppe Lubrano are accused of having warned Salvatore Minieri On July 7, 2017, the Public Prosecutor of the Anti-Mafia District Directorate of the Naples Prosecutor’s Office, Fabrizio Vanorio, requested the indictment for the brothers Giuseppe Lubrano and Gaetano Lubrano for attempted threat
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
The Procurator’s Office of Messina decided almost six years after the facts. First hearing in April. Charges for criminal association fell. No accusation for two Magma journalists For the affair of the so-called “poisons at the Prosecutor’s Office of Syracuse” (read more), almost six years after the facts, the Court of Messina indicted for libel
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Journalismfund.eu provides research grants for European teams of journalists with a good idea for a cross-border investigation. The next deadline to submit an application for a grant is 1st September 2017. Objective Political decisions are made across borders. Business and trade go across borders. Criminals establish networks to run their activities in various countries. If journalists want to match this power, cross-border cooperation is […]
The post Call for entries for research grants for cross-border investigation appeared first on European Youth Press.
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European Youth Press
A man slammed his head against the wall. Nemo‘s envoy (RAI2) was shooting at the site of a mafia murder. Solidarity from the FNSI A man whose identity is still not known started kicking the journalist Nello Trocchia, envoy for Nemo – Nessuno Escluso (aired on RAI2), then dragged him in the street and slammed
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Solidarity to the journalist Salvo Palazzolo, of the newsroom office of Palermo of the daily La Repubblica. He had recently received threats along with a magistrate On July 25, 2017, the journalist Salvo Palazzolo, reporter of crime for the daily La Repubblica from Palermo, was targeted on Facebook by Antonino Ciavarello, son-in-law of the mafia
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Seized archives and cell phones from the home of journalist Gianluca Paolucci and from the newspaper La Stampa to find out his sources of UNIPOL manoeuvres in politics In Turin, at 8 am on July 21, 2017, the Guardia di Finanza searched following an order from the Procurator of the Republic, the home of the
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Raffaele Lettieri asked Luigi Criscuolo (Edizione Caserta), who published a note of the kickboxing federation Kombat League On July 18, 2017, Raffaele Lettieri, kickboxing athlete, with a letter, asked the online news outlet Edizione Caserta to remove an article by the editor in chief, the journalist Luigi Criscuolo. The lawyer threatens to file a defamation
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
