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Reporting on the European Youth Event 2016, European Youth Media Days 2016 from 19 to 21 May. Innovative, interactive and inspiring to promote dialogue, exchange, learning and networking in media.
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European Youth Press
Reporting on the European Youth Event 2016, European Youth Media Days 2016 from 19 to 21 May. Innovative, interactive and inspiring to promote dialogue, exchange, learning and networking in media.
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European Youth Press
The African-EU Energy Partnership (AEEP) is inviting young journalists from Europe and Africa to apply for a travel grant to join Stakeholder Meeting of the AEEP, taking place in Milan, on 16-17 May 2016
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European Youth Press
The Youth Citizen Entrepreneurship Competition (www.youth-competition.org) invites young entrepreneurs (age 15-35) from around the world to submit their innovative ideas and projects with a societal impact
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European Youth Press
A report from the Logan Symposium by ECPMF’s Jane Whyatt with additional reporting by Katharina Mikulcak
Two days of intense debates in the German capital proved that there still exists a sort of imaginary wall between the ethical-hacker communities who protect whistle-blowers and the journalists who publish their stories.
Photo from ECPMF.
With Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, Thomas Drake and Lauri Love all taking part in the conference, some of the world’s best known whistle-blowers were onstage. The fact that Assange, Snowden and Love had to be beamed in from exile and enforced detention via videolinks underlines the risks they took…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Philipp Filipovski and Michelle Trimborn
Around 30 to 50 journalists have been forced to stay in police stations for many hours after they were arrested because of illegally crossing the border between Greece and Macedonia/the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Many journalists reported that security forces were explicitly watching out for journalists.
Migrant men help a fellow migrant man holding a boy as they are stuck between Macedonian riot police officers and migrants during a clash near the border train station of Idomeni, northern Greece, as they wait to be allowed by the Macedonian police to cross the border from…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Jane Whyatt
Her Majesty the Queen has made a formal complaint to Britain’s press regulator IPSO about a story in the Sun newspaper that claims she is anti-EU and appears under the headline ’QUEEN BACKS BREXIT’.
Here is the article in question:
Screenshot from article that ran in The Sun, British publication, 8 March, 2016. (Photo: http://www.thesun.co.uk)
In it, reporter Tom Newton Dunn refers to remarks said to have been made in 2011 at Windsor Castle to the then leader of the Liberal Democrat party Nick Clegg and to an unnamed parliamentary source.
Brexit is a term composed out of the words “Britain”…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Andrea Scano decided it after a meeting between representatives of his newspaper, Assostampa and RSU of . He had received three threatening messages On March 8, 2016 the journalist of Unione Sarda, Andrea Scano, withdrew his complaint against a union representative of the metallurgical company Eurallumina of Carbonia who on February 24 had sent to
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
Demonstration in Piazza Montecitorio. Fingers pointed at publishers that would have allowed for agents’ identification On the SAP (Independent Police Union) gazebo mounted in Piazza Montecitorio on March 9, 2016, there is a print in large letters: “Hunger strike, because the truth is not a crime: the helmets are rotten, the training insufficient, equipment is
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
Diana Dimitrova of the KU Leuven Centre for IT & IP Law discusses the proposed amendment from December 2015 to the Schengen Borders Code (SBC), tabled in response to the Paris attacks that took place in November 2015. In this post, she examines some of the privacy and data protection issues that arise from the provisions of the proposal. The Schengen […]
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Media Policy Project
