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The director of the European Center for Press Freedom and Media Leipzig EPMF, Dr. Lutz Kinkel, sent this message to Ossigeno At the veil of the “Concert for the Fredom of the Press” promoted in Roma on Wednesday June 21st in Roma from Ossigeno per l’Informazione, in the recurrence of the European Feast of Music,
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Since November’s US presidential election, the issue of fake news has been debated probably more than ever before: where it’s coming from, how it spreads and whether or how attempts to stop it should proceed. Joanna Kulesza, professor of international law and Internet governance at the University of Lodz, Poland, argues that we need careful consideration of the laws around […]
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Media Policy Project
by Jane WhyattThe European Parliament has denounced the state kidnapping of journalist Afghan Mukhtarli. The roles of Azerbaijan, (where he is now in pre-trial detention) and of Georgia, (where he was snatched in the street and taken by force to the Azeri capital Baku), are both highlighted in a three-page, strongly-worded condemnation.
Because of the serious concern expressed, the future relationship of the EU to both states is called into question. Georgia recently agreed a visa liberalisation programme EU-Georgia association agreement (including free trade) entered into force on 1 July 2016, the visa liberation programme on 28 March 2017. (This…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
One of the reasons for Labour’s surprising performance in this year’s general election has been said to be voter turnout – which, at 68.7%, reached its highest level since 1997. An analysis by LSE researchers Damian Tambini, Nick Anstead and João Carlos Magalhães suggests that a shift in the party’s Facebook advertising strategy in the last 48 hours of the campaign might be one of […]
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Media Policy Project
Maria Egizia Fiaschetti (Corriere della Sera) was in Piazzale Flaminio to document the degradation of the area by the presence of unauthorized stalls A journalist from the Corriere della Sera, Maria Egizia Fiaschetti, and her photographer were threatened and insulted on June 6, 2017 by some street vendors in Piazzale Flaminio in Rome, while documenting
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
It had been posted on LiveSicilia.it. The chief editor of the news outlet was sued for libel by a marshal of the Carabinieri The Court of Reviews of Palermo, on May 8, 2017, annulled the preemptive seizure – in the form of partial obscuration – of an article published on 6 January 2017 by Giuseppe
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Silvio Schembri and the cameraman Salvatore Butticé (La Gabbia) had reached Girolamo Fazio, under investigation for corruption, at an electoral event The journalist Silvio Schembri, a reporter for the TV show La Gabbia broadcast on La7, and his cameraman, Salvatore Butticé, were blocked and insulted in Trapani on Sunday, June 4, 2017 by supporters of
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Unfounded allegations against Ilaria Lonigro and Peter Gomez for reporting the debate between the politician and a collective of writers who denounced the manipulation of a photo The Judge for the Preliminary Hearing (GUP) of the Court of Rome, on June 6, 2017, acknowledging “the unfounded nature of the crime”, sent to the archives the
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
What’s happening in newspapers. Why “media truth” contrasts without rules to the “substantive or procedural” reality. Why hearsay replaces the news The Spanish writer Javier Marias, a sharp and unrelenting observer of the recent, profound, and not always progressive transformations in the world of information, pointed out that a large percentage of the world’s population,
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Deadline: 18 June 2017 The Lénaïc Fund for Quality Journalism provides a fellowship for up to two recently graduated young female students from an EU country interested in kick-starting their career in the important profession of EU journalism. Each selected participant will benefit from: A financial bursary of up to 5.000 € A fellowship […]
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European Youth Press
