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Margrethe Vestager, Danish politician, who is currently serving as the European Commissioner for Competition
by Jane Whyatt
France’s biggest newspapers and media groups have formed advertising alliances to take on the commercial might of Google and Facebook. And in the UK, a campaign called Duopoly has gathered almost 200 signatures for a petition to Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Duopoly has also won the verbal backing of Conservative Culture Minister Matt Hancock.
The French newspaper groups behind “Le Monde” and “Le Figaro” have teamed up to launch Skyline, a joint sales effort for all their print and online magazines.…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Anyone with evidence about whether the proposed Sky-Fox merger will operate against the public interest has until Friday to submit it to the Department of Culture, Media and Sport. If nothing changes, argues Damian Tambini, Bradley will be tempted to take advantage of parliamentary recess and approve the deal. It’s the Politics, Stupid I am in Italy so I […]
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Media Policy Project
By Jane Whyatt
Media freedom campaigners are concerned about a burglary at a Belgrade apartment. It was ransacked but apparently nothing was stolen. The apartment is home to investigative reporter Dragana Peco.
Serbian investigative reporter Dragana Peco
She is employed at the KRIK (Network for Investigating Crime and Corruption). In a press release issued by the Slavko Ćuruvija Foundation, KRIK editor Stevan Dojinovic said:
Cases involving journalists must be treated with the maximum seriousness, precisely because they can be related to their work. We work on stories related to crime and corruption; it is a fact that Peco is an investigative journalist and…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Presented in Roma the action plan of the european agency. What to do in Italy? Ossigeno, Amnesty, Lidu, Diversity, Fondazione Brodolini among the italian ONG consulted Promote the knowledge and respect of the right of information and other human rights in a new, simpler and more clear language and through initiatives in every country, using
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Call for 2017 Dr Erhard Busek-SEEMO Award for Better Understanding in South, Eastern and Central Europe The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), calls for nominations for the 2017 Dr Erhard Busek-SEEMO Award for Better Understanding in South, Eastern and Central Europe. Eligible to be nominated are journalists, editors, media executives, media experts, writers or
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
I didn’t want to intimidate anyone, he says. A comment on the article “Querele. Ossigeno difende in giudizio due freelance IRPI” (Citations. Ossigeno defends two freelancers from IRPI) (read) Entrepreneur Curio Pintus commented on the decision by the Ossigeno per l’Informazione’s Legal Assistance Office to assume the defence of Lorenzo Bagnoli and Lorenzo Bodrero both
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
News emerged in June 2017 that Facebook was seeking three patents focussed on harnessing users’ emotions, using both cameras on devices and users’ messaging patterns. Facebook has been clear that seeking patents doesn’t mean it is planning to introduce this technology imminently, but it is an indication of what might be possible. Andrew McStay, Reader in Advertising and Digital Media […]
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Media Policy Project
The comment after the searches and seizures of journalists’ computers and cell phones The search of the reporter of Il Fatto Quotidiano Marco Lillo (read), a few days after the seizure of the phone of Federica Sciarelli, made in order to find out the source that revealed some important details of the CONSIP judicial inquiry
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
In the newsroom of the daily Il Fatto Quotidiano, in the homes of the journalist Marco Lillo and her reporter partner, of his family and of a graphic designer In Rome, the private homes of the journalist Marco Lillo and of the art director of the daily Il Fatto Quotidiano, Fabio Corsi, and the newsroom
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
In September 2013, the journalist Annalisa Chirico, collaborator of Panorama and Il Foglio, was cited for damages by the magistrate The Court of Rome rejected – with the judgment of 20 June 2017, published on the 30th – the claim of 260 thousand euro presented in 2013 by the public prosecutor Henry John Woodcock for
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
