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Deadline: 10 august 2017 This year’s BIRN Summer School of Investigative Reporting will take place in Mlini, Croatia from August 20 until august 26, 2017. The Summer School will bring together a superb line-up of journalists and trainers. Participants will have opportunity to work in small group or one-on-one sessions with: The lead […]
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European Youth Press
Deadline: 31 August 2017 Writers who are interested in feminism and social justice can apply for a remote, three-month fellowship. Bitch Media, a nonprofit feminist media organization, organizes the Bitch Media Fellowships for Writers. The program consists of intensive writing fellowships whose goal is to develop, support and amplify emerging, diverse voices in feminist, activist and […]
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by OBCT
"Those opposed to democracy do not like humorists". The statement of "Cumhuriyet"'s cartoonist in the trial accusing him and other journalists of "terrorism" becomes a "manifesto" on the role of journalism and satire in nowadays Turkey.
Cartoonist Musa Kart (r.), publisher Akin Atalay and author Ahmet Şik in trial. (By Murat Başol)
"For the attention of the chair of the 27th Istanbul High Criminal Court.
This is my written statement in response to the indictment.
I am a cartoonist. I have been drawing cartoons for thirty-five years. Instead of writing long and winding expositions, cartoonists pour out their feelings and thoughts directly, in a…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Jane Whyatt
Human rights defenders including Rebecca Harms MEP and Alan Rusbridger, former editor of the British newspaper “The Guardian”, are urging the Ukrainian authorities to properly investigate the death of a journalist who was murdered in a car bomb attack in July 2016.
Journalist Pavel Sheremet was killed in July 2016 in Russia (copyright: Okras, Sheremet at Open Library debate 140928, CC BY-SA 4.0)
Pavel Sheremet, from Belarus, had worked in Russia and was the morning show host at Radio Vesti in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. He died of injuries from the blast, which wrecked the car he was…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
The deposition of Cumhuriyet's cartoonist in the trial accusing him and other journalists of "terrorism" becomes a "manifesto" on the role of journalism and satire in nowadays Turkey
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
This monthly review of acts of intimidation in Italy is produced by Ossigeno per l’Informazione for the European Center for Press and Media Freedom of Leipzig (ECPMF), with the support of the European Union Monitoring: verified cases of probable threats, deemed credible In January 2017, Ossigeno per l’Informazione has verified 104 cases of probable threats,
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english – Ossigeno Informazione
This monthly review of acts of intimidation in Italy is produced by Ossigeno per l’Informazione for the European Center for Press and Media Freedom of Leipzig (ECPMF), with the support of the European Union Monitoring: verified cases of probable threats, deemed credible In January 2017, Ossigeno per l’Informazione has verified 104 cases of probable threats,
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Deadline: 1 September 2017 Documentary makers can apply for a training program to help them develop their projects. The European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs (EAVE) is accepting applications for its 2018 workshops. The three workshops will take place March 8 to 15 in Luxembourg, in June in Poland and October in Spain. EAVE is aimed at producers, both fiction […]
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By Dragan Janjić, OBCT
I do not know whether it will be possible, one day, for all countries of the region to formally become part of the European Union exclusively owing to the pragmatic readiness to preserve regional stability, but it is quite certain that this will not truly happen without a sincere, not only verbal, embracing of European standards, and unless the field of media freedoms in them is expanded.
Bad news from Serbia
Only a sincere adoption of European standards – and that includes media freedoms as well – can guarantee true stability, and only in such circumstances can stability…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Representatives from international free expression groups and professional journalist organizations observed proceedings in Istanbul this week in the criminal trial of 17 journalists and executives from the newspaper Cumhuriyet.
We reviewed the indictment ahead of trial and delegates were present in court as the journalists and executives defended themselves against accusations that they supported terrorists and violated their managerial duties to the newspaper.
We found defence arguments that the case relies on weak evidence cherry-picked to support a predetermined theory credible. At best, testimony from the journalists and executives strongly suggests that authorities failed to conduct a proper investigation.
Defence…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
