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Ossigeno per l’Informazione wishes all the best to the Representative on Freedom of the media who leaves her office after six years The statement by Alberto Spampinato, Director of Ossigeno per l’Informazione: I hope that the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the media, who will replace Dunja Mijatovic on March 10, 2016, will have the
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
New research reveals that Britain’s TV viewing is split along racial lines. In this blog for the Media Policy Project, Trevor Phillips OBE presents the findings of the research, arguing that the media has an important role to play in promoting racial integration and that the potential privatisation of Channel 4 would risk people of colour in Britain “losing their […]
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Media Policy Project
by Jane WhyattIn Germany online readers who spot misleading articles are creating their own coverage on social media. A Twitter user named only as ‘Karolin’ is creating a ‘hoaxmap’ of inaccurate reports about refugees and asylum seekers being involved in crimes such as rape and shoplifting. A hoax is a deliberately misleading or false news report, created and placed in order to suit a particular political viewpoint.
Hoaxmap shows where the inaccurate reports about refugees and asylum seekers come from (Screenshot: hoaxmap.org)
‘Karolin’s’ map was published in the Munich-based Süddeutsche Zeitung.
Questioned by the newspaper’s reporter, Karolin said she started the map…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Fourteen intimidations this week in Italy Fourteen. So many where in Italy within the week 22-28 February 2016 the victims of violations of freedom of expression through threats and abuses of Law and judicial proceeding which names Ossigeno added to the Public table of the names of victims that includs journalists, bloggers and operators intimidated. Since January 1, 2016
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Ossigeno Informazione » english
by Beata WalczakiewiczGazeta Wyborcka, Poland’s leading left-liberal newspaper, faces a libel action from the government’s ruling party over its commentary on the controversial pardon of a state official who was convicted of abuse of power.
The International Press Institute, based in Vienna, has issued a press statement condemning the move. IPI, with the European Federation of Journalists and the ECPMF, recently visited Poland on a fact finding mission, provoked by the new PiS media law reforms. The Venice Commission of the Council of Europe has also visited to investigate constitutional changes and will report its findings on 11th March. Poland…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Faced with growing evidence that more and more women journalists are menaced with gender-based violence and online threats, ECPMF has created a special Women’s Reporting Point to respond to this. It will be officially launched on 8 March 2016, the date that marks the International Women’s Day.
Threats can be reported via encrypted messaging. The secure emails will only be opened by female staff at ECPMF headquarters and their contents will remain confidential. For the Women’s Reporting Point, ECPMF is partnering with the European Federation of Journalists EFJ and its Italian branch FNSI to provide appropriate legal assistance and solidarity…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Turkish journalists Erdem Gül and Can Dündar have been released from jail. The editors from the opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet had been arrested 3 months earlier accused of spying and intentionally revealing state secrets after they alleged that the Erdogan-government tried to ship arms to Syria to support of Islamist fighters.
On the day of Gül’s and Dündar’s release, independent Turkish broadcaster IMC was stopped from broadcasting for a day. The TV channel was accused of spreading “terrorist propaganda” and shut down by the government to investigate the allegations. The break in transmission came while IMC was airing a live interview…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Katrin Welker The High Court of Justice of England and Wales decided on the 22 January 2016 (Case No: TLJ/15/0654) that there is no need to continue proceedings for defamation if the reputation of the claimant was effectively restored.
An international banker filed a criminal libel claim against a journalist and a photographer as well as the media company they work for. The media company is situated in Portugal and publishes a weekly newspaper printed in Portugal and also owns and maintains websites. The banker filed the libel claim because of an article published in June 2014. The article alleged…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Damian Clifford and Jessica Schroers, legal researchers at KU Leuven, look at whether dynamic IP addresses fall within the scope of European Data Protection legislation given the identifiability of users based on the processing of IP addresses. In this post, they examine the written submissions and the hearing of the the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) which provide some […]
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Media Policy Project
by Michelle TrimbornTwenty-one editors-in-chief of the main Finnish media outlets have released a joint statement against so-called fake media. On first of March, the statement was released all over Finland in the name of "media we can trust", including the most important newspapers and broadcasters like YLE, Helsingin Sanomat and Hufvudstadsbladet.
The editors speak out against the rise of what they call fake media: several new online media outlets, like MV-Lehti and Uber Uutiset (even though they are not explicitly named in the statement) gained popularity during the last months as an alternative to mainstream media. For example, MV-Lehti's Facebook…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
