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Ossigeno Fnsi Odg: Journalists are not targets, respect Lirio Abbate

A joint statement defines as unacceptable the attacks on the journalist during some public hearings for the Mafia trials in Rome This document was signed on January 30th, 2016 by Ossigeno per l’Informazione, FNSI and Order of Journalists: Journalists are not targets to be hit with insinuations, mockery, free and instrumental accusations. They are professionals,

Source: Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English

Capital Mafia. Protest for offences by Carminati defender against Lirio Abbate

These attacks are unacceptable, Ossigeno, FNSI and OdG comment in a joint document with which they appeal to the competent authorities During the last hearings in the trial dubbed Capital Mafia, taking place in Rome, and on January 29, 2016 during a hearing of the trial against the Fasciani clan, the lawyer Bruno Naso, defender

Source: Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English

Dunja Mijatović ends her OSCE term

by Jane WhyattCampaigners for press and media freedom need stamina and endurance, and in her two consecutive terms at the High Representative at the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Dunja Mijatović has proved she has both. OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović at the conference on shaping policies to advance media freedom on the Internet, Vienna, 14 February 2013. (Photo: OSCE / Colin Peters) Fluent in five languages, with Bosnian/Croatian/Serban as her mother tongues, Mijatović has defended media freedom across the changing political landscape of Europe. As she comes to the end of her period of…

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

Milan. Hearing of expo commissioner. Local police keeps reporters away

Ossigeno: just like in authoritarian countries. The Lombard Reporters Group: “serious and worrying gesture”. Giuseppe Sala was awaited by journalists at Palazzo Marino MILAN – The Lombard Reporters Group on 25 January 2016 complained for the estrangement of journalists on the occasion of the hearing of the sole commissioner of the Expo, Giuseppe Sala, which

Source: Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English

Call for: Media professionals interested in communication on artificial intelligence

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotics have been a feature of science fiction writing for almost a century, but it is only in more recent years that the prospect of truly autonomous robotics - even those that have only limited functionality - have become viable...

Source: European Youth Press

Call for: Future leaders interested in summer school on transparency

This summer, Transparency International School on Integrity (TISI) offers anti-corruption and accountability training for future leaders in Vilnius, Lithuania...

Source: European Youth Press

Call for: Journalists from Southeast Europe for Reuters Programme

In 2016, sixteen journalists from Southeast Europe will be selected to participate in the 'Economic and Political Reporting from Southeast Europe' programme...

Source: European Youth Press

Call for: Investigative journalists for cross-border grants

Journalismfund.eu calls on investigative journalists to take partin one of their regular cross-border grants...

Source: European Youth Press

Call for: Cultural journalists with research projects to be funded

The Milena Jesenská Fellowship Program offers European journalists time off from their professional duties in order to pursue in-depth research on a topic of their choice...

Source: European Youth Press

Call for: Paid traineeship opportunity for journalists

The Communications Service of the European University Institute, based in Florence (Italy) is looking for one journalist to carry out the following daily tasks...

Source: European Youth Press