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by Jane Whyatt
Britain’s Law Commission proposes a new law that could lead to long jail terms for leakers, journalists and whistleblowers accused of endangering national security.
Proposed UK law could also set a dangerous precedent in wider Europe regarding government secrets and leakers. Photo: public domain
They also propose to scrap the defence that a publication is in the public interest, and to exclude the press and public from trials.
Investigative journalist Duncan Campbell spotted the tough new restrictions and alerted the media freedom community with an exclusive article in The Register:
"The British government has received recommendations for a 'future-proofed' new…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Everybody knows that search engines use algorithms, but few know how these work and who builds them. Paško Bilić, Research Associate at the Institute for Development and International Relations in Zagreb, Croatia, writes here about the layers of human labour behind Google’s algorithms and their implications for search neutrality. His post is based on a paper published in Big Data […]
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Media Policy Project
by Toni Gabrić, Zagreb | OSSERVATORIO BALCANI E CAUCASO TRANSEUROPA
How does the "right to know" work in Croatia? Exactly three years ago we asked for information on a number of cases involving the Croatian Football Federation (HNS) without any result.
Access to public information in Croatia is difficult. Photo: public domain
And exactly two years ago we asked if we could attend, as journalists, the meeting of the Cultural Councils, but these continue to be held behind closed doors. It took two and a half years before attempts succeeded to make public some of the contracts for the exploitation of hydrocarbons…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
An OSCE conference on safety of the media in South-Eastern Europe adopted several recommendations, including the creation of a commission to investigate cases of murdered and missing journalists in Kosovo
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
by Ana Ribeiro
In the latest instance of persecution against his media work in Albania, Artan Rama has been hit with a civil lawsuit demanding that he pay thousands of euros over a text published on his news programme’s Facebook page.
Artan Rama
On 17 November 2016, the shareholders of construction company Edil Al-It filed a defamation lawsuit against Rama in the Civil Court of the First Degree of Tirana District. Despite previous troubles regarding coverage of a business venture involving the mayor of Tirana, Rama said this is the first time he has been sued.
The organisation Res Publica is legally representing…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
In the city council in S. Giuseppe Vesuviano (Naples): as a "public pillory" the journalist Francesco Servino protests. For Ossigeno, it is an act of intimidation Vincenzo Catapano, mayor of the City of San Giuseppe Vesuviano (in the province of Naples), informed the city council that he decided to sue for libel the online newspapers
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Malta: Libel suits and warrants against blogger Caruana Galizia From court on request of a garnishee order from Economy Minister Chris Cardona and his consultant Joe Gerada Call on the Osce to appoint soon a new Media’s Representative Dunja Mijatovic will leave next March 10, after after serving a one year extension of her two
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
This week, Ossigeno has verified and made know 7 cases of intimidation against journalists and information operators. Targeted because of their work: Francesco Servino, Andrea Ripa; Stefania De Cristofaro; Alessandro Migliaccio, Dino Giarrusso; Marilena Natale; Stefano Montone. They are 5 men, 2 women. The methods of intimidation, according to the Ossigeno classification method, fall into the following types: Physical
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Data and the algorithms that organise it are core to many services in the digitalised world. Jonny Shipp, Director of Public Affairs at Telefónica SA and a Visiting Fellow at LSE and Dr Ioanna Noula, researcher at the UCL Institute of Education and a Visiting Fellow at LSE, write here about the ethics of data science and how to increase […]
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Media Policy Project
Dunja Mijatovic will leave next March 10, after serving a one year extension of her two three-year terms. And yet no announcement of her successor Brussels, 16 Feb 2017 – The International and European Federations of Journalists, together with a wide coalition of freedom of expression organisations, sent today a letter to 47 OSCE Participating states, urging
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
