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Press freedom. More cooperation between Seemo and Ossigeno

Among the NGO based in Vienna and the Observatory located in Rome began a joint activity at the international level. An agreement signed in Belgrade. A joint statement “Between Ossigeno per l’Information and the South East European Media Organisation (SEEMO) began a closer cooperation to implement joint initiatives in defense of the press freedom and

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

Molise. Le Iene tv show acquitted, accused from Federfarma

Nadia Toffa, Luca Tiraboschi, Marco Fubini and Stefano Rinaldi had ended up on trial for a report on the introduction of recipe-validating machines The crew of Le Iene TV show, sued by Federfarma Molise for a service from 29 March 2012 on the introduction of recipe-validating machines in pharmacies, was acquitted from charges of defamation.

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

Sports. Juventus denies accreditation to two reporters of la Gazzetta dello Sport

For the Juventus Football Club there was no need to release the pass to other journalists. The newspaper: “The club was resentful for an article.” USSI and FNSI intervened The Juventus Football Club has denied the request for accreditation to two journalists of La Gazzetta dello Sport for the match against Pescara of 19 November

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

Naples. Relatives of arrested attack an operator of Sky tv

On 19 November 2016 a SKY cameraman was attacked by relatives of two arrested while filming, from the outside of the barracks ‘Pastrengo’ of Naples, the exit of the detainees It was denounced in a statement by Claudio Silvestri, secretary of the Union of Journalists of Campania, which defines the incident “unacceptable.” “Reporters – Silvestri

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

Russia. 5,000 dollar ransom on a journalist escaped to Georgia

It’s the prize promised on Facebook to find out where he is hiding. Sasha Sotnik told of his case in an interview to the Italian agency Aba News by Gianfranco Sansalone – It’s been two months, exactly from the second half of September 2016, since the Russian journalist Sasha Sotnik left Moscow in secret and

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

Call for team members – Middle East and North Africa Committee

Interested in media, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa? Want to counter stereotypes and foster a cross-regional dialogue with your peers? Apply as... The post Call for team members – Middle East and North Africa Committee appeared first on European Youth Press.

Source: European Youth Press

#iComment: Channeling the power of online masses to curb hate speech in Europe

by Ana Ribeiro The battle over hate speech in the public sphere has reached a new level, as an online initiative hitting British tabloids in their pockets has gone viral and started to yield results. It is one of the movements seeking to cut off supply and demand from the hate wave by mobilising internet users. ECPMF spoke to the campaign’s founder about his aims. Stop Funding Hate, the online initiative targeting the tabloids’ income, is trying to get companies to quit advertising in The Sun, Daily Mail and Daily Express, as a form of protest and boycott against the xenophobia…

Source: European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)

Quality journalism in times of crises | South East Europe Media Forum 2016

By Anna Schmidt, SEEMO, and Michelle Trimborn More than 400 Editors-in-Chief. media CEOs, media owners, experts and leading journalists from more than 25 countries gathered in Belgrade on 21 and 22 November to participate in this year’s South East Europe Media Forum (SEEMF). The event, organized by the South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) and Media Program South East Europe of German Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation (KAS-SEE), is the biggest annual media conference in the region. With panels like “The refugee crisis as a touch-stone for professional journalism” and “Journalists in conflict zones – Trends in war and crisis reporting”, this year’s focus clearly…

Source: European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)

The Limits of Parental Consent in an Algorithmic World

Data protection reform is set to take place throughout the European Union when the General Data Protection Regulation becomes law in May 2018. Nathan Fisk, Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity Education at the University of South Florida, discusses questions around the age of consent for data collection and processing, and its implications for teenagers and their parents. Fundamentally, the General Data Protection […]

Source: Media Policy Project

Turkish artist shows one day in the media landscape in Germany

by Jane Whyatt and Ana Ribeiro Most local newspaper publishers do not think of their papers as works of art. But when “collected, indexed and bound,” they can be “both a unique reference library and an art object in which a day’s news is the material and the subject,” according to Turkish artist Banu Cennetoglu. Contemporary Art Daily calls her travelling installation involving German newspapers “a portrait of a society and a celebration of the printed newspaper, a tradition that in Germany dates from the 17th century and is now threatened by a consumer preference for digital formats.” Collection of daily german newspapers by Banu…

Source: European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)