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At the Festival Mediterraneo Downtown 2017 at Prato we met the Turkish journalist Can Dündar. Fears and hopes for Turkey after Erdoğan's victory in the constitutional referendum
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
The European Youth Press – Network of Young Media Makers e.V. is looking for at least 30 participants of a local event organised within the project „Detecting, Deterring and Reporting Corruption Work Plan“ that is supported by the European Youth Foundation of the Council of Europe. The local event will take place on June 9th, […]
The post Call for participants seminar “Reporting Corruption and Tax Avoidance: Investigative Tools” in Amsterdam + training in Vilnius appeared first on European Youth Press.
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European Youth Press
Since November’s US presidential election, the issue of fake news stories spreading on social media has been in the spotlight, and there are currently efforts underway to limit the effects of fake news stories on the upcoming general election in the UK. Gianfranco Polizzi, a PhD researcher here at the LSE, explains what critical digital literacy means and the role […]
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Media Policy Project
The General Data Protection Regulation, due to become law across the EU in May 2018, proposes introducing 16 as the minimum age at which a person can join an online service without the consent of their parents. In a post based on his open letter to the European Data Protection Supervisor and the Chair of the Article 29 Working Party, […]
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Media Policy Project
Alarm of Level 2. Categorized from AEJ as act having chilling effects on media freedom coming from the State On May 19, 2017, on suggestion of Ossigeno per l’Informazione, the very serious case of the Italian journalist Gabriele Carchidi, 52, was inserted as an alert of Level 2 on the “Platform to promote the protection
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
by Christian Schult and Jane Whyatt
Freelance journalist Håkan Slagbrand woke up early on Monday morning, 15 May, to find an intruder in his home in Västeras, Sweden. The man attacked and beat him. It is believed the motive for the attack may be connected to Slagbrand’s investigation into suspected financial crimes in late 2016.
Residential area in Västerås harbour. Brorsson, Östermälarstand Västerås, CC BY-SA 3.0
Slagbrand has reported the attack to the local police, who are investigating. This is the second attack against the reporter in a short period of time. His car was set on fire in the first attack…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Jane Whyatt
Turkey's press freedom crisis continues. A German radio reporter and a Turkish national newspaper journalist are the latest media workers to be detained.
The "state of emergency" in Turkey continues nearly one year after the attempted coup against President Erdogan, as does the crackdown on civil society under its banner. (Photo: public domain)
Mesale Tolu, who has been a German citizen since 2007, is being held in the Bakirköy Women's prison. She is accused of belonging to a terrorist organisation and spreading terrorist propaganda. Her arrest on 6 May prompted the press freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) to…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Jane Whyatt
After the fireworks came the crackdown. Kiev as host of the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest showed her friendliest face to the world’s TV viewers. "Celebrate diversity" was the slogan above the main stage where Portugal's Salvador Sobral emerged as the winner.
Ukraine's friendly face has been replaced by a scowl as the country's regime cracks down on social media platforms and critical voices. (Photo: Andres Putting, official Eurovision website press gallery)
Just a few days later the government of President Petro Poroshenko announced that they will block Ukraine's most popular social media networks - including VKontakte, which is more…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
If the condemnations against Gabriele Carchidi, chief editor of iacchite.com, will not be canceled, the journalist will end in jail, as happened in 2012 to the chief editor of Il Giornale The journalist from Cosenza Gabriele Carchidi is likely to have to pay a prison sentence. If that happens, Italy will again be subjected to
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
In detail, the four judgments of the Court of Cosenza, which have imposed prison sentences without conditional suspension There have been four condemnations for libel that the Court of Cosenza has handed down in the last eight months against the journalist Gabriele Carchidi, head of the online news outlet www.iacchite.com, imposing on him every time
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
