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The former chief editor of the TG1 removed the journalist Tiziana Ferrario from leading the news reel of the public broadcaster The former chief editor of the TG1 and current senator of Forza Italia Augusto Minzolini was sentenced in Rome to 4 months in prison for abuse of office. The story concerns the removal in
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
Sigfrido Ranucci and Luca Chianca had been misled by a case of homonymy, they corrected themselves spontaneously but were sued anyway “The facts do not constitute an offense”: with this formula, on 11 December 2015, the Judge for the preliminary hearing of the Court of Benevento, three years after the facts, acquitted the journalists Sigfrido
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
Holes drilled in the wheels of the car of Fabio Postiglione. It is the fifth act of intimidation since July 2015. Order and Union write to the Prefect and seek protection New act of intimidation in Naples against Fabio Postiglione, journalist of Il Roma. In the night between 9 and 10 December 2015, unknown assailants
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
Alessia Candito received serious threats by a ‘Ndrangheta henchman currently unavailable. The journalist had already received threatening emails from a fugitive On 16 December 2015, the Police in Reggio Calabria ordered a night security detail for Alessia Candito, journalist for the Corriere della Calabria, threatened via email by a former repentant, currently unavailable, affected by
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
Politicians have responded swiftly to an investigation of attacks on journalists by the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom. The research revealed that journalists in Germany face sustained threats from right-wing and left-wing extremists, especially during the regular weekly demonstrations against refugees by PEGIDA in Dresden and similar groups in other cities.
Berlin Reichstag (photo: wikimedia/Cezary Piwowarski)
Full details of the investigations here: http://bit.ly/1mljqirhttp://bit.ly/22k29H3 Martin Hoffmann, the ECPMF researcher who led the Fact Finding Mission on “Lying Press“ - debate and attacks on journalists in Germany has been invited to join a panel of experts to discuss the issue in the…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Following the recent publication by Ofcom of its measurement framework for media plurality, LSE Research Officer Sharif Labo argues that although there are significant gaps in the framework, it offers a solid foundation to measure plurality in a fast-changing media environment. The UK Parliament, in consultation with Ofcom, must now use the opportunity of the first baseline assessment to set […]
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Media Policy Project
Following the announcement that the EU has finally agreed updated data protection legislation after four years of protracted discussions, Professor Sonia Livingstone discusses the impact the legislation will have on children and, in particular, on how children interact with social networking platforms. It’s been an extraordinary week for policy and research folk concerned about teenage social networking. On 10 December, John […]
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Media Policy Project
Following the release earlier this week of the final draft General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Daphne Keller, Director of Intermediary Liability at the Center for Law and Society at Stanford Law School, provides her response. This builds on her previous analysis about the GDPR and its consequences for Internet intermediaries and user speech online. The probably-really-almost-totally final 2016 General Data Protection […]
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Media Policy Project
During the first phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), leaders from various countries came together and affirmed that the development of information and communication technologies (ICTs) provided a wealth of opportunities for women, and that women should be an integral part of the information society. It called for removing the gender barriers to ICT education and […]
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Media Policy Project
Matt Powell, editor for the consumer broadband comparison site Broadband Genie, examines if the deployment of full fibre broadband has improved since his previous post in 2013 and argues that the UK Government’s plans for using satellite broadband to plug the final 5% of homes will be inadequate for many. Looking back over the state of UK broadband in 2015
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Media Policy Project
