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Pluralism in European media information - Interview with Pier Luigi Parcu

09/06/2016

Pier Luigi Parcu is the Director of the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom, and of the FSR Communications & Media at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the EUI.

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Festival of Free Speech - Free Press Unlimited (Netherlands)

15/05/2016

Press freedom declined to its lowest point in 12 years in 2015, as political, criminal, and terrorist forces sought to co-opt or silence the media in their broader struggle for power. Video credit: Free Press Unlimited and SAZZA, based on data from the Freedom House annual report Freedom of the Press 2016.

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Covering the Refugee Crisis: IPI World Congress 2016 Panel Discussion

15/05/2016

The refugee influx into Europe - but also Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey - has created a crisis of epic proportions. How are media covering this complex topic? Are they providing accurate and sufficient background information? How do they treat the question of “migrant” vs. “refugee”, terms that are often used interchangeably, but, if used incorrectly, can greatly influence society’s reactions to the crisis?

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Erdoğan’s ‘New Turkey’ Cancels Out Critical Journalism (January - March 2016)

04/05/2016

Bianet Media Monitoring report highlights that in the first 3 months of 2016, in Turkey, 5 journalists have been convicted on charges of “defaming the president”, 22 others have newly been put on trial for the same charges and legal action has been taken against 53 journalists

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IPI Free Media Pioneer 2016: Medyascope.tv

21/04/2016

As the situation of media freedom in Turkey does not show any signal of improvement, this video by the International Press Institute pays tribute to the platform Medyascope.tv , giving voice to the journalists who contribute to it

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Captured news media: the case of Turkey

17/04/2016

Held at the International Journalism Festival 2016 in Perugia, this roundtable considers the current state of the media in Turkey

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Media situation in Macedonia does not promise fair elections

28/03/2016

Zaneta Trajkoska, Director of the School of Journalism and Public Relations in Skopje, examines how the media landscape in Macedonia hinders free and fair elections

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ECPMF conference puts press freedom on the map

03/03/2016

They came from twenty three countries to the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom’s base in Leipzig, East Germany … top politicians such as Elmar Brok, the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs spokesman, leading lawyers such as Russia’s Galina Arapova, campaigners like Melody Patry from Index on Censorship, top managers like Hans-Ulrich Jörges, editor-in-chief for Special Affaires, Gruner + Jahr, Hamburg, and leading academics including Professor Dirk Voorhoof from Ghent University.

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South East Europe Media Forum

29/02/2016

SEEMF is the biggest media conference in South Eastern Europe, bringing journalists, media experts and politicians together. It is organised by Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, in partnership with the South East Europe Media Organization and the Central European Initiative.

In 2015, SEEMF took place in Bucharest.

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Dunja Mijatovic - Let’s do something

04/02/2016

Dunja Mijatović, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media speaks about the challenges for the freedom of speech and freedom of media in the context of highlighted importance given to the online and offline security

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