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In Bisceglie, Luca Bertazzoni (La7) was shooting a report for Piazzapulita. After the airing of the program, also a councilor has threatened lawsuits On February 9, 2016 Francesco Spina, mayor of Bisceglie (in the Puglia region), denounced for disturbing a public service the journalist Luca Bertazzoni of the TV show Piazzapulita broadcast on La7. Bertazzoni,
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
Jean-Christophe Plantin, Assistant Professor in Media & Communications at the LSE, explores the intersection of algorithms, academic research and platforms for scholarly publications. He argues that there is a need to develop a values-centred approach in the development of article-sharing platforms, with suitably designed algorithms. The networking and article-sharing platform academia.edu has been at the centre of a controversy in the academic […]
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Media Policy Project
By Jane WhyattHosting Europe’s Culture Capital for 2016 is an unexpected honour for Wroclaw. It is a provincial city with a troubled history of pogroms and ethnic cleansing that used to be the German town of Breslau.
And Wroclaw’s special year of European multi-cultural events already has its own troubles. Civil unrest prompted by the new PiS (Law and Justice Party) government’s actions has brought thousands of people out in street protests. Organised by the new Committee for Democracy they have demonstrated every two weeks since the reforms started. It is the cultural changes that have had the biggest impact,…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Flavio Tosi has to answer also for defamation against the journalist. It was decided by the examining magistrate who has found bad faith in the complaint After two years, the lawsuit against the journalist was filed by the judge who, having found the plaintiff’s bad faith has simultaneously ordered his indictment for aggravated slander and
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
It happened to the freelance Andrea Avato, who announced the incident on Amarantomagazine.it. Solidarity from USSI, AST, and the Councilor for Sports Lucia Tanti On February 7, 2016, at the end of the Pro League football match between Pisa and Arezzo, the freelance journalist Andrea Avato was attacked by the Arezzo footballer Simone De Martino,
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
In many OSCE-participating states conflict and crisis hamper and endanger an independant, accurate and objective journalism. Sometimes journalism even tends to sharpen conflicts.
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European Youth Press
Britain is in the process of legislating a new system of control over the interception of communication. The Investigatory Powers Bill, currently being debated in draft form, aims to give an unprecedented level of transparency and accountability to the use of government surveillance powers. In this ‘long read’ piece for the Media Policy Project, LSE PhD student Bernard Keenan provides […]
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Media Policy Project
Five intimidations this week in Italy Five. So many where in Italy within the week 1-7 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
Roger Darlington is Chair of the Consumer Forum for Communications and attended this week’s launch of Ofcom’s Consumer Experience report for 2016. There is definitely a change of thinking in Ofcom about the length of publications. Last year’s draft Annual Plan was 81 pages but this year’s is only 29 pages. Last year, the Consumer Experience research report was 242 […]
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Media Policy Project
It is the journalist Massimiliano Amato. In the book on the history of the former undersecretary Nicola Cosentino, he had confused the brother of the politician with a nephew by the same name On February 3, 2016, the judge of the Fourth Chamber of the Court of Naples fully acquitted from charges of libel the
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
