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Radio Capital. Journalists insulted from mayor of Venice

The first citizen, Luigi Brugnaro, on the phone with TG Zero got nervous during the interview relative to his participation to the Family Day in Rome During an interview on his announcement to participate to the Family Day, an event organized in Rome for Saturday, January 30th to protest against the bill on civil unions,

Source: Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English

Defamation. Lawsuit against journalist by Matteo Salvini to the archives

The League leader had sued Davide Vecchi of Il Fatto Quotidiano for an article published in 2014 in which he criticized his political work On 29 January 2016 the judge for preliminary investigations of the Court of Bergamo has sent to the archives the libel suit presented by Matteo Salvini against Davide Vecchi (pictured), a

Source: Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English

Poland: The Public, The Government And The Media

Beata Klimkiewicz, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Journalism and Social Communication, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, examines recent changes to public service media law in Poland and argues that whilst reform of Polish public service media is needed, this should be achieved not through direct political means, but rather through greater public involvement. The political battle about public service media (PSM) is not new in Poland, […]

Source: Media Policy Project

Piombino. Vice-chief of poice excludes journalist from press conference

“This is my home and I decide who gets in”, he apparently told him alleging that he published some undisclosed information on the issue of the meeting at hand The vice chief of Police Walter Delfino prevented a journalist from the newspaper Il Tirreno, Cristiano Lozito, to participate in a press conference convened at the

Source: Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English

Calabria. Soluri (Odg), stop acts of intimidation against reporters

The first session of the Regional Commission against the ‘Ndrangheta. The President Arturo Bova: there is an escalation There are numerous acts of intimidation against journalists in Calabria and they need to stop, Giuseppe Soluri, President of the Regional Order of Journalists said. “The criminal escalation against mayors, local government officials, journalists and entrepreneurs requires

Source: Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English

Bad News | Thursday February 4

Fifteen intimidations this week in Italy Fifteen. So many where in Italy within the week 25 – 31 January 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

Source: Ossigeno Informazione » english

United Nations back Wikileaks founder Julian Assange

An Expert Panel of the United Nations high Commission on Human Rights has comdemned as “arbitrary” the detention of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Assange, the Australian activist who created the whistleblowers’ portal, is wanted in Sweden on charges of sexual misconduct. And he has been living in the Ecuador embassy in London for the past three years for fear he will be arrested and extradited. Since Wikileaks has exposed alleged war crimes and embarrassing military and diplomatic information about the US, there is a fear that the Americans might also seek his extradition. Speaking by videolink to a press conference…

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

Italy. January 2016. The most dangerous news by Ossigeno

There have been 49 journalists and bloggers suffering from acts of intimidation. The attacks on professional secrecy and on investigative journalism in Mafia trials stand out This monthly review of acts of intimidation in Italy is produced by Ossigeno per l’Informazione for the European Center for Print and Media Freedom of Leipzig Print (ECPMF) with

Source: Ossigeno Informazione » english

Italy. January 2016. The most dangerous news by Ossigeno

There have been 49 journalists and bloggers suffering from acts of intimidation. The attacks on professional secrecy and on investigative journalism in Mafia trials stand out This monthly review of acts of intimidation in Italy is produced by Ossigeno per l’Informazione for the European Center for Print and Media Freedom of Leipzig Print (ECPMF) with

Source: Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English

New Animisms (A Provocation)

How should we deal with the sorts of automated predictive systems that increasingly impact our lives? Mireille Hildebrandt of Vrije Universiteit in Brussels argues that we must learn to interact with the new mindless agents that now saturate what she terms “our onlife world”. Law-as-we-know-it is premised on the fundamental distinction between mind as active, and matter as passive. This distinction no […]

Source: Media Policy Project