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Acquitted blogger Brunetti defended by Ossigeno. “My calvary” “I wrote the truth and was sued by the Mayor of Portovenere. Over two years of anguish and concerns” Italy and Spain. Journalists under fire. Conference in Madrid It will be held on March 23 at the Universitad Complutense following an initiative by Ossigeno and Plataforma por
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
European Youth Press – Network of Young Media Makers, e.V. (EYP) is seeking a highly motivated and experienced person to fill the position of fundraiser.
The post The European Youth Press is looking for an experienced fundraiser appeared first on European Youth Press.
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European Youth Press
A range of extra-legal policy mechanisms (policy-relevant actions outside of the scope of law) are used by those in power to prevent journalists from fulfilling their watchdog role in society. In this post, Chiara Sighele from Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa, provides examples from countries of South East Europe (SEE) where extra-legal policy mechanisms are deployed to stifle journalism. There […]
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Media Policy Project
by Jonas Rusche
The Lithuanian radio and television commission (RTLC) suspended the Russian language channel “RTR Planeta” for three months, from 21November 2016 to 21 February 2017. Four days before the suspension period was over, the European Commission (EC) decided that this action was in line with the EU-level “Audiovisual Media Services Directive” (AVMSD).
The EC’s decision came after the TV channel had complained to Lithuanian authorities about the suspension. The case related to three programmes “RTR Planeta”, broadcast from Sweden to Lithuania, aired between November 2015 and October 2016.
Statements in these programmes “partly related to an ongoing military confrontation involving…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Gianna Iacino
Since 27 January 2017, the Turkish Authority for Information Technology (BTK) blocks the access to a not yet operational website.
Can Dündar, the former editor-in-chief of the Turkish newspaper “Cumhuriyet” launched the website Özgürüz (“We are free”) together with the non-profit research centre corrective and the Turkish journalist Hayko Bagdat. The website operators work in Berlin, Germany. They are planning to report critically about current events – inter alia – related to press freedom developments in Turkey. The website will be in German and Turkish language.
Before the website was operational and had any content, BTK blocked access to the…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Tobias Raab
On 30 December 2016, the Higher Administrative Court (Oberverwaltungsgericht, OVG) of Berlin-Brandenburg decided that, the German newspaper Tagesspiegel does have a right to access of information of the Federal Foreign Office regarding the legal assessment of the so called “Schmähgedicht“ (case no. OVG 6 S 29.16).
The German TV host Jan Böhmermann had read that poem during an episode of his late night show „Neo Magazin Royal“ as a reaction to the politics of Turkish president Erdogan. Böhmermann read passages about zoophilia and violence against women. He also pointed out the difference between lawful satire and defamation. After the…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Ingo Beckendorf
On 28 November 2016, the Higher Regional Court of Berlin (Kammergericht Berlin) decided, that articles published in a blog can be categorised as journalistic-editorial content and therefore, the party concerned can have a right to reply (10 W 173/16).
The case was based on a dispute between two politicians. A former politician of the German Pirate Party, now a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), brought an action against the author of a blog, one of his former colleagues in the Pirate Party. The plaintiff found statements made by the author in his blog to be…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Ingo Beckendorf
On 15 December 2016, the German Federal Court (Bundesgerichtshof, BGH) decided that, a publisher has no right to demand compensation for the seizure of a journal with reprinted Nazi-propaganda, when he himself contributed to the initiation of preliminary proceedings with his risky behaviour (case no.: III ZR 387/14).
Since January 2009, a press-corporation from the UK distributed the weekly journal "Zeitungszeugen“ ("newspaper-witness”) in Germany. The journal covered the time of Nazism in Germany and the press-landscape back then. Each issue of the journal contained two or three facsimile-reprints of newspapers from one selected day during the time of…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Ingo Beckendorf
On 10 January 2017, the German Federal Court (Bundesgerichtshof, BGH) has rejected the libel actions of two journalists of the German weekly newspaper “Die Zeit” against the public service broadcaster „Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen” (ZDF).
On 29 April 2014, the TV station transmitted a satire show. In that programme, two cabaret artists claimed, that the plaintiffs had connections to organizations that deal with security policy issues. With their action, the journalists tried to get an injunction against the transmission of the show by the broadcaster. The satire show contained a dialogue between the two cabaret artists. The central theme of…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Gianna Iacino
On 9 February 2017, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) decided that the forcible removal of journalists from a parliamentary press gallery constitutes a violation of art. 10 European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
In December 2012, during a parliamentary session of the Macedonian parliament, members of the opposition protested against the procedure for approving the state budget. When the protest escalated, security officers escorted those members of the opposition as well as journalists reporting from the parliamentary press gallery, from the building. Due to their forcible removal, several journalists filed a complaint with the Macedonian Constitutional Court…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
