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FoX-Grant: Tell your story about violations of freedom of expression

In cooperation with its partner organisation Journalismfund.eu, the ECPMF is happy to announce the second call for applications for the FoX-Grant. With € 15.000 in total, the grant wants to enable European journalists to tell their stories about violations of freedom of expression. Freedom of expression is threatened in many European countries and violations of media freedom occur more often than many people think. The majority remains unaware of this fact – because the violations to those freedoms remain invisible to them. The FoX-Grant wants to change this: FoX is short for freedom of expression –…

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

Why the UK’s creative industries are better off in the EU

The UK’s creative industries, which include film, music, television, video games and publishing, among other sectors, account for some of the most recognisable products exported by the country around the world. But how does EU membership affect these industries and what would the picture look like following a Brexit? Sally Broughton Micova writes that EU membership provides a number of […]

Source: Media Policy Project

Bossetti trial. Death threats to Carmelo Abbate

The reporter is a commentator on the TV show Quarto Grado, who is following the trial for the murder of Yara Gambirasio. ODG Lombardia asks meeting with the prefect The Panorama reporter and commentator for the TV show Quarto Grado, Carmelo Abbate, on 7 June received death threats on the web after months of insults.

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

Naples. Cameraman attacked on murder site

He is an operator of the SiComunicazione agency. ODG Campania and UGIV intervened. FNSI and SUGC have launched an initiative along with the threatened journalists On 7 June 2016, in the Ponticelli district of Naples, an operator of the SiComunicazione agency was attacked while trying to take footage on the spot where, a few minutes

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

Florence. Journalist attacked at the end of history- football match

He was filming a fight between the two sides, when he was reached by two guys. On the incident Assostampa and Group of Reporters of Tuscany intervened On June 11, 2016, at the end of the Florentine history football match between Whites and Greens – which was held in Piazza Santa Croce – the journalist

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

Naples. Fanpage investigation on exchange vote. Journalist receives death threat

“I’m going to kill her. I’m going to rip her head off”, the founder of a non-profit organization that operates a food stand yelled at Gaia Bozza Votes in exchange for food: the FanPage journalist Gaia Bozza, has tried to shed light on an alleged episode of vote trading in Naples, during the local elections

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

Federica Angeli insulted at the end of the Fasciani and Triassi trial

She has been labeled “street corner vendor” following the verdict that brought down the aggravating circumstance of mafia association for the criminal prosecution Street corner vendor, now write the truth: in such a way one of the defendants acquitted in the appeal trial between the Fasciani and Triassi families, accused of managing through mafia methods

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

Extreme job cuts at Serbian regional broadcaster: “The citizen’s majority is disengaged”

by Jane WhyattSenior editors have been replaced at Serbia’s public service broadcaster in the region of Vojvodina, RTV. The move prompted demonstrations in Novi Sad, the regional capital, as the dismissals are believed to be politically motivated. ECPMF interviewed Vesna Marjanovic, a Democratic Party Member of the Serbian National Assembly, about the RTV case. What makes you think there is a political motive behind the staff changes at RTV? Vesna Marjanovic (Photo: private) Marjanovic: Even before the election in April, the Vojvodina channel was removed from the main transmitters for Serbia so that the scope of their broadcasts was…

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

Defamation. Senate backtracks on increase of jail sentence

Deleted from the text any reference to art. 595 of the Criminal Code. What it would have produced. The alarm raised by Ossigeno and the combined pressures of the journalistic world have had an effect The Assembly of the Senate, in its meeting of 8 June 2016, has deleted from the Lo Moro bill the

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

Sicily. Tells of bow under Riina’s house. Insulted on facebook

Salvo Palazzolo of La Repubblica and the trade unionist Dino Paternostro were targeted by Tony Ciavarello, the son-in-law of the boss of Corleone The journalist of La Repubblica Salvo Palazzolo, was insulted on Facebook by Totò Riina’s son-in-law, Tony Ciavarello, for an article published on June 5, 2016, in which Palazzolo told of the unscheduled

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione