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Call for participants of the Reporting Corruption project

The European Youth Press as well as its Member Organisations and other partners focus on informing media makers about all levels of corruption and empowering them to tackle it effectively. For media makers, corruption is a key topic twofold: media is one of the main institutions in society responsible for detecting, deterring and reporting on […] The post Call for participants of the Reporting Corruption project appeared first on European Youth Press.

Source: European Youth Press

Journalism is dead

For liberal democracy as we know it, the decline of professional journalism is certainly bad news — without it, vocal majorities dictate political decisions increasingly rooted in extreme, intolerant values

Source: Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News

Bad News | Thursday January 26

2016 annus horribilis. Beaten the record of number of journalists killed How many victims have there been? The budgets revealed by the various international organizations vary inexplicably from 101 to 48, and this quells the alarm OSCE warns of increasing attempts to regulate press Across the globe the impulse to restrain media freedom stems from

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

Slovenia and the access to public information

An interview to Sonja Merljak, reporter with the Slovenian daily ’Delo’

Source: Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News

Serbia and the access to public information

An interview to Milorad Ivanovic, Editor-in-Chief of Newsweek Serbia

Source: Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News

16 threats between 20 and 26 january, 2017

This week, Ossigeno has verified and made know 16 cases of intimidation against journalists and information operators. Targeted because of their work: Giornalisti L’Espresso; Giornalisti Fatto Quotidiano; Tommaso Ciriaco, giornalisti Repubblica; Marilù Mastrogiovanni. They are 1 men, 1 woman, 14 n/d. The methods of intimidation, according to the Ossigeno classification method, fall into the following types: Obstacle to freedom of information (10), Insult

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

Children’s commercial media literacy: new evidence relevant to UK policy decisions regarding the GDPR

As for all EU member states, the UK has until May 2018 to incorporate the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) into British law. Article 8 states that, unless member states decide otherwise, children under the age of 16 years old will require parental permission to use “information society services”, which refers to most online resources. Most provisions of the GDPR […]

Source: Media Policy Project

2016 annus horribilis. Beaten the record of number of journalists killed

The massacre of journalists continues unabated. Probably, 2016 will be remembered as one of the bloodiest years of the last two decades. But it is very hard to gauge how many actually have lost their lives while they were engaged in spreading information of public interest, and thus exercising a fundamental right

Source: Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News

Quarrata (Prato province). Acquitted after three years blogger sued for 120 articles

Edoardo Bianchini has performed his job correctly. He had been charged with 120 articles published on the blog Quarrata/news The fact is not an offense. There has been no act of libel, but merely a legitimate exercise of freedom of the press. With this ruling, issued on Thursday, December 1, 2016, the single judge of

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

Palermo. The reporter Elvira Terranova insulted on twitter

After sharing on social networks an article of hers, published on Adnkronos, the journalist was attacked by an account named Geronimo. Charges have been pressed “A bitch at the mafia’s service”: so was defined on January 10, 2017, in a tweet from an account named Geronimo, the journalist of Adnkronos Palermo, Elvira Terranova. It is

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione