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Ossigeno will be signalling those candidates who will commit to abolish the provision on defamation allowing judges to condemn journalists up to 6-year imprisonment In Italy, on 28 December 2017, the legislature ended without approving the draft bill to stop the plague of thousands of defamation charges made every year, in a specious way, for intimidatory purposes against five thousand journalists. Ossigeno
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Last year in Kosovo 24 cases of threats and attacks on journalists have been registered
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
The UNESCO seminar in Sri Lanka showed that many similarities exist between Asia and Europe and highlighted how late Italy is in establishing a national human rights commission Most of the safety mechanism and best practices to address the issue of impunity established so far in Asia have been initiated by civil society and media and do
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
#NEWSOCRACY brings together policy makers, academics, journalists, citizens and initiatives to discuss media ownership concentration in Europe and Spain. The event is hosted by the ECPMF, PDLI and OBCT.
#NEWSOCRACY conference on #mediaownership LIVE STREAM - #ECPMF #PDLI #OBCT https://t.co/ocCQwVTusH— ECPMF (@ECPMF) 30. Januar 2018…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Journalism is under tremendous economic pressure in the Baltics. This opens the door to political influence and PR. The governments of Estonia and Lithuania answer to this with very different approaches.
EFJ and ECPMF representatives of the fact-finding mission to the Baltics
The European Federation of Journalists and the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom investigated the media situation in Estonia and Lithuania from January 22d to 24th and interviewed almost 30 experts, among them representatives of the government, academia, press councils, public service media, journalists‘ organisations, investigative journalists, editors-in-chief and CEOs.
Good news first: concerning media freedom and pluralism, Estonia…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
#Newsocracy: In two-thirds of the European countries less than four owners hold 80 per cent of the media
– Experts, politicians, journalists, editors and media freedom organisations from all over Europe meet on Tuesday, 30 January, 2018 in Madrid, to discuss media ownership concentration and media pluralism– At the #NEWSOCRACY conference latest data on media ownership in Europe will be analysed (Media Pluralism Monitor), and the still unpublished recommendations of an expert group working for the Council of Europe will be presented, on how to improve transparency and competition – The conference is organised by the European Center for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF),…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Bulgaria: time to tackle the nightmare next door
By Jane Whyatt
Emotions ran high at ECPMF’s Expert Talk on Bulgaria, held in Brussels on 25 January. There was a moving testimony from ECPMF’s Journalist-in-Residence (JiR) Dimitar Stoyanov, followed by a heated debate about the dire state of media freedom in the country.
Statue of Sveta Sofia (Sacred Wisdom) in the centre of the Bulgarian capital Sofia. (Photo: Jane Whyatt, 2016)
The Balkan country is ranked second worst in the EU, and 109th out of 180 nations in the Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index. Since it joined the European Union in 2007, Bulgaria…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Who will draw the consequences? The Observatory highlights that 3508 names of threatened journalists in Italy show just the tip of one iceberg that is 15 times bigger Data collected and shared by Ossigeno per l’Informazione on threats, retaliations and abuses to journalists and bloggers in 2017 are greatly alarming. Nonetheless, one cannot say that
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
By ECPMF staff
At the ECPMf's Expert Talk on Media Freedom in Bulgaria, Stolan Zachov, president of the union of Bulgarian publishers (UPB), presented a White Paper setting out the difficulties critical journalists face in his country. He has given the ECPMF an interview with further insights into the grim scenario that propelled the union's action.
ECPMF managing director Dr Lutz Kinkel opening the expert talk on media freedom in Bulgaria
ECPMF: What motivated the UPB to produce the document?
Stolan Zachov: The worsening of the media freedom situation started in Bulgaria about 10 years ago. For people who are not directly involved,…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Rankings place Italy 52nd in position, behind all other continental European countries. How they are compiled and by whom. How they can be corrected. In 2017, Reporters Without Borders in its Press Freedom Indexes ranked Italy 52 out of 180 countries, after Malta (49), France (39), Spain (29) and Germany (19). In 2016, the same French
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
