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On 2 March 2016, the Bundeskartellamt, the German competition authority, announced its decision to initiate proceedings against Facebook on suspicion that the social network provider had abused its dominant position by infringing data protection rules. Inge Graef and Brendan Van Alsenoy, Legal Researchers at the KU Leuven Centre for IT and IP Law, argue that the case represents the first […]
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Media Policy Project
They are journalists of Adnkronos, Askanews and Agi Sicilia. Unci and the regional Assostampa intervened. Zingales: “Some politicians draw up popularity rankings” On March 18, 2016 three journalists representing the news agencies Askanews, AdnKronos and Agi in Sicilia, were excluded from a meeting organized in a Palermo hotel between Silvio Berlusconi, who was in town
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
For their role with their paper in the campaign of EsseLunga against Coop. Solidarity of the Editorial Board. The comment of the FNSI and Ossigeno On 16 March 2016, the journalists Maurizio Belpietro, editor of the daily Libero, and Gianluigi Nuzzi were sentenced to ten months and twenty days’ imprisonment for the crime of slander.
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
The media and civil society play a pivotal role in the dissemination of free speech, the strengthening of democracy, economic development
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European Youth Press
The European Youth Press’ Orange Magazine is looking for young multimedia journalists, radio journalists, photographers and video-makers (aged between 18 and 30) from all over the world
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European Youth Press
by Michelle Trimborn
Press freedom violations in Turkey continue. During the last weeks we reported on the state influence executed over the Zaman newspaper group and the pending trial of Erdem Gül and Can Dündar from Cumhuriyet newspaper. Read about the latest developments.
The ECPMF has been following the media censorship situation in Turkey as it escalates. (Photo: Pixabay)
After having been first taken into custody because of allegations of espionage, Erdem Gül and Can Dündar are still free pending trial. Their first hearing will take place on 25 March 2016. ECPMF, together with other international colleagues like the European Federation…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Michelle Trimborn
A journalist has been directly called and threatened by Kosovan Prime Minister Isa Mustafa after publishing an article on Mustafa's brother who left the country to seek asylum in the EU. The journalist takes the threat seriously.
Photo of journalist Vehbi Kajtazi on Radio Europa website. The headline reads: "Yes, the Prime Minister threatened me"
On the morning of 20 March 2016, Vehbi Kajtazi, journalist at the investigative online newspaper “Insajderi.com” published an article revealing that the Prime Minister’s brother left Kosovo to seek asylum in the EU. According to the article, he emigrated due to health problems…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
What should the relationship be between public service broadcasters (PSBs) and distribution platforms such as Sky, and how can the existing model of sharing content best be reformed? In this post, Tom Evens, Senior Researcher at Ghent University and Visiting Fellow at LSE, reflects on the 2015 consultation paper issued by the UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), a response to which […]
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Media Policy Project
by Jane Whyatt
Britain is fast-tracking a new law to give police and secret services extra powers to collect and keep personal data. Phone calls, conversations over the internet (e.g. skype, hangouts), SMS messages and web searches will all be included. The National Union of Journalists and civil liberty groups fear it will restrict journalists’ work by exposing their confidential sources and whistleblowers.
Senior lawyer Alex Bailin QC (Queen’s Counsel, a barrister of special status) argues that the new law’s safeguards for journalists are “completely inadequate in terms of Article 10”. The article refers to the section of the European Convention…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Ana Ribeiro
The Portuguese newspaper Diário Económico published its last print edition on Friday, 18 March. The daily paper was founded in 1989 but will now only be published online, at least until further notice.
Public domain license. (Photo: Pixabay)
The online portal Diário Digital reported that the administration of Diário Económico informed employees of ‘‘the decision to suspend the newspaper’s print publication“ the day before it happened. Employees had gone on a 24-hour strike on 10 March demanding that their delayed salaries be paid. Two days earlier, the newspaper’s editorial board had resigned, the report adds.
Diário Económico is the oldest…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
