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This week, Ossigeno has verified and made know 3 cases of intimidation against journalists and information operators. Targeted because of their work: Maurizio Ciccarello; Cecilia Anesi, Leo Sisti.. They are 2 men and 1 woman. The methods of intimidation, according to the Ossigeno classification method, fall into the following types: Frivolous defamation lawsuit (3). With the addition
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
The 2016 European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will require parental consent for children under 16 who use digital services such as social media. In this post, Sonia Livingstone, Professor of Social Psychology at LSE’s Department of Media and Communications, discusses the potential challenges that result from this policy change. Throughout this blog series, we have been decoding the implications of […]
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Media Policy Project
The situation of public radio-television in Bosnia and Herzegovina is deteriorating, while pressures increase for the creation of three ethnonational channels
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox’s bid for the British pay-TV company Sky is raising important questions around its consequences for media pluralism, free expression, and news accuracy. Here, Damian Tambini explains why the Culture Secretary should order a thorough review of this case. Ever since the News International Bid to purchase BskyB was withdrawn in 2011, commentators have expected another bid to […]
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Media Policy Project
Jane Whyatt
Polish journalists have been banned from entering the national parliament for two days after protestors on the streets of Warsaw, Wroclaw and other Polish cities. They were demonstrating against new rules limiting journalists’ access to the parliament (Sejm). In Warsaw the demonstrators blocked the street in front of the parliament building. Inside, Opposition MPs staged a sit-in.
Poland protests: Crowds renew calls for press freedom (screenshot: twitter)
Chair of ECPMF’s Executive Board, Henrik Kaufholz, says the PiS government’s latest actions are worrying: “This latest move by the Polish government is another proof that it gives priority to its own interest…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Four years after the publication of the Leveson report, and shortly after the recognition of IMPRESS as an approved regulator, the UK government launched a new consultation into two issues of press regulation, closing on 10 January. The consultation invites views both on section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013, and on whether Part 2 of the Leveson […]
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Media Policy Project
The Investigatory Powers Act, also widely known as the Snooper’s Charter, received Royal Assent on 29 November, 2016, and thus is now law. However, 2016 also saw the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) being approved by the EU Parliament in April. Pascal Crowe, postgraduate student at the LSE, attended a recent conference organised by Alison Harcourt of the University of […]
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Media Policy Project
Gianna Iacino
On 29 September 2016, the Human Rights Council of the United Nations has adopted unanimously a new 20-points Resolution on the safety of Journalists calling upon States not to interfere with the right to confidentiality of sources by interfering with encryption technology.
The Resolution condemns all attacks on Journalists and media workers, online and offline, especially sexual and gender based discrimination, violence, intimidation and harassment, and the prevailing impunity for such attacks. The Resolution urges States to do their utmost to prevent such attacks and to develop and implement strategies for combatting their impunity, including the review and amendment…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Eugen Cojocariu
On 15 November 2016, the Romanian President Klaus Iohannis filed a motion with the Constitutional Court in Romania to declare unconstitutional the Law adopted on 25 October 2016 by the Romanian Chamber of Deputies (Lower chamber of the Parliament). The Law slashes 102 non-fiscal taxes and duties, among them the public radio and TV fees and the Environment Fee. The draft law, introduced by Social Democrats, had been adopted by the Romanian Senate (upper chamber) on 17 October 2016.
The head of state claimed that the law violates the separation of powers and other legal principles governing the relationship…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Ieva Andersone
On 15 November 2016, the Latvian Association of Journalists published an announcement condemning the recently concluded criminal proceedings against a journalist for her investigative journalism activities.
According to publicly available information, in September 2015, the State Police initiated criminal proceedings against a journalist of the public television broadcasting company LTV. The journalist was working for an investigative journalism broadcast “Aizliegtais paņēmiens” (“The Prohibited Manner”). In this broadcast, the journalists generally perform so called journalistic experiments in order to discover illegal or faulty procedures within public institutions or private companies.
In the relevant case the journalist performed an experiment in order…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
