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The financing of independent journalistic projects in transformation societies and autocracies is a key concern that impedes or at least hinders democratic processes and developments. It is therefore crucial not only to impart journalistic tools of the trade and ethical standards, but also to provide young journalists from this region with information about the financing […]
The post Call for applicants for 100 Young European Journalists Workshop appeared first on European Youth Press.
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European Youth Press
by Jane Whyatt
A wake-up call is going out to Europe's journalists and press freedom campaigners. Frans Timmermans, the European Commission's first Vice President, marked World Press Freedom Day in Brussels by denouncing fake news and urging the media to re-connect with the wider public.
Frans Timmermans, Dunja Mijatovic and others were speaking at the EURACTIV World Press Freedom Day event in Brussels on 3 May. (Photo: ECPMF)
At the EURACTIV event on 3 May, he also commented on the rising popularity of right-wing nationalist parties in 2017, when elections are being held in the UK, France, the Netherlands, Italy and…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Andreas Rossmann, FAZ
An investigative journalist is bullied and abandoned by Der Freitag, a German weekly journal: the case of Petra Reski.
Petra Reski.
The Italian journalist Alberto Spampinato once said that "everyone who writes about the Mafia does it at their own risk."
He is from Sicily and he knows what he is talking about: The topic has been an obsession for him ever since 1972, when his then 25-year-old brother Giovanni, a correspondent of Palermo’s L’Ora, was murdered by the Cosa Nostra. His book about his brother, a first-person account, was published in 2009. In 2008, when he was working…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Eline Westra
New technologies have enabled journalists to monitor military actions more closely, with smartphones and the internet now forming powerful "digital eyes" on the ground. And in the international air war against ISIL, these local sources reveal a much greater human cost from airstrikes than the military authorities themselves claim. An insight into the work of journalist-run monitoring group Airwars.
Dutch F-16s and munition at the base in Jordan. The Netherlands carried out about 500 airstrikes in Iraq and later also in Syria, from October 2014 to July 2016 (photo courtesy/source: Archive Dutch MoD/Ministerie van Defensie)
On 8 August…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Abit Hoxha
Arben Hajrullahu has never done things the easy way. As a professor at the Political Science Department at the University of Prishtina, he is known for his attempts to expose institutional wrongdoings and has faced various difficulties with his employers over the years as a result.
Arben Hajrullahu.
In 2015, he supported the student protest against the then-rector of the university, who was found to have published his "scientific" work in supposedly academic peer reviewed journals in India, which turned out to be fake.
Recently, Hajrullahu has once again found himself at odds with his employer, and back in the…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Increasing tensions between the interest of media and politics pose a serious threat for European democracy. An editorial by Mogens Blicher Bjerregård, President of the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ)
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
In Strasbourg on March 24th, judges, journalists, lawyers and activists discussed the challenges facing the protection of free expression in Europe
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
The UK’s Home Affairs Select Committee released a report yesterday following its inquiry into hate crime, in which it criticised social media companies’ handling of illegal content. The report recommends, for example, that the government considers introducing “meaningful” fines for social media companies which fail to remove illegal content within a strict timeframe. Jim Killock, executive director of the Open […]
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Media Policy Project
by ECPMF staff
World Press Freedom Day is coming around again on 3 May, and all the signs are that the world is getting less free. So the related events in Brussels have an added urgency in 2017.
Actual humans are still the best bet for fact-checking. (Photo and art: ECPMF)
As well as obvious new political threats – for example in Macedonia, Hungary and Turkey – Europe's journalists also face shadowy forces who are fabricating fake news and poisoning public discourse with hate speech.
The European Centre for Press and Media Freedom is working to meet these challenges. In the framework of the…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
We will go in that cemetery with our cameras, Carlo Verna announced expressing solidarity with Stefano Andreone, reporter victim of an aggression The TGR Campania will continue the investigation on MetNews for alleged bribes paid for the re-exhumation, an inquiry for which on 23 March 2017 the chronicler Stefano Andreone was beaten at a bar
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