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When the two-part World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) was held in 2003 and 2005, one of the key agreements reached among world leaders related to the necessity to bridge the digital divide between developed and developing countries. In the fourth of a series of posts on the WSIS+10 process edited by LSE alumna Anri van der Spuy, Nicolas Seidler, policy […]
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Media Policy Project
A new online platform was developed by OBC and the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF). The platform enables journalists, policy makers, scholars, and citizens to access updated materials on media freedom and pluralism in Europe
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
He told exclusively that as concerns Luca Aleotti there are investigations underway and he sings praises of the Caliphate The journalist from Trieste Fausto Biloslavo, 54 years old, who has experience as a war correspondent, reported to the Police constabulary in Trieste the publication on Facebook of intimidating messages against him from environments associated with
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
Jane Whyatt
It is assumed by many that journalists in Europe are not censored and the existence of a free press is a matter of fact in democracies, where no official censoring institutions exist. But there are sneaky methods of control – besides open censorship – that creep in to daily work in every newsroom and affect freelancers, too.
Unmasking this hidden censorship is the aim of a new training course by ECPMF's Rome-based partner Ossigeno per l’informazione. It is the brainchild of Ossigeno’s founder Alberto Spampinato:
"We are used to thinking of censorship as the cancellation or abolition of unwelcome news…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
For a TV service aired on 29 March 2012 in which they argued that obstacles were being placed to the recipe electronic validators. Trial in March in Campobasso n April 2012 they were threatened by pharmacists who did not like their filming and their questions on the introduction of electronic machines for validating prescriptions. They
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
Michelle Trimborn
Crowdfunding for journalists is not a new invention – but Press Start will give the concept a new twist. Instead of supporting single articles or a whole media outlet, the platform launched by Press Start will give donors the possibility to support single journalists for a series of articles and a period of around four months.
Jaroslav Valuch, Project Leader of Press Start, explained to the ECPMF that many journalists face a lack of sustainable support – a problem that the new crowdfunding platform aims to overcome. In addition to this, Press Start does not address the regular journalist,…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
While the 2003 World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Geneva paid special attention to the needs of developing countries to meaningfully participate in debates about Internet governance, the participation of African countries in these debates – and in particular in the WSIS processes that have taken place since 2003 – has been more limited. In the third of […]
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Media Policy Project
Following publication by the UK Government of a new report about spectrum allocation, LSE Associate Professor and Director of the Media Policy Project, Damian Tambini, explains the background to the report and what it is aiming to do. The UK Government recently published Incorporating Social Value into Spectrum Allocation Decisions. I was one of the authors of the report, which […]
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Media Policy Project
An interview by the ECPMF staff to the Wikipedian in residence Davide Denti, hosted at OBC within the project Wiki for Media Freedom
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
By Martin Hoffmann, ECPMF
The reproach of "lying press" echoes above right-wing demonstrations, through internet boards and publications for a year now. Parallel to the rise of right-wing populist movements that gained strong influence especially in Eastern Germany, journalists at work are attacked more and more frequently. The ECPMF Fact Finding Mission “Lying press” consisted of research into cases that happened in the last year all over Germany, in extended interviews with the journalists Helmut Schümann, Merten Waage and Andreas Postel, who were affected in different aspects of the “Lying press”-debate and connected attacks, editor-in-chief of regional paper Dirk Birgel,…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
