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On January 25, 2018 the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom presented an expert talk on the state of media freedom in Bulgaria, which holds the presidency of the Council of the European Union for the first six months of 2018.
ECPMF managing director Dr Lutz Kinkel opening the expert talk on media freedom in Bulgaria
(Brussels) Bulgaria wants to prepare the ground for Western Balkan countries to join the European Union. This is an honorable task implying that Bulgaria is a role model for practice, an orientation for other countries to follow. This certainly also applies to the field…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Following concerns about the state of media freedom in Serbia expressed by both Serbian journalists and media organisations as well as international organisations and institutions, an international joint fact-finding mission comprised of representatives from the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), the International Press Institute (IPI) and the South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) visited Serbia from 18th-19th January 2018.
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
By Emil Weber
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled on 23rd January that a journal’s “moral criticism” of the family plans of a late famous Hungarian poet’s widow were not harmful.
Adrian Grycuk Courtroom European Court of Human Rights 05 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/pl/deed.en
Ms. Katalin Fatime Faludy-Kovács was 65 years younger than Mr. György Faludy when they married in 2002. Since their relationship attracted wide interest, their private life was made public, including, with the couple’s agreement, having their rather erotic photographs published by a magazine.
After Mr. Faludy died in 2006, the widow said in a newspaper interview that “she wanted to…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
She had refused to reveal to the public prosecutor the source of one of her book-investigations on the possible background of the Capaci Massacre. Defense by the lawyer Valerio Vartolo together with avv. Andrea Di Pietro from the Ossigeno Legal Assistance Office On January 12, 2017 the Court of Rome, chaired by Dr. Iulia of
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
By Saskia Solomon, 22, University of Edinburgh (published without alterations to text)
When I was in my early teens I fell down an internet rabbit hole. At the time, I enjoyed drawing to audiobooks and lectures on youtube, absorbing big words and appropriating ideas even if I didn’t entirely understand them.
Saskia Solomon. Photo: Saskia Solomon
I listened to prominent academics, historians and artists. The likes of Lucy Worsley, Stephen Pinker, Richard Dawkins, Germaine Greer and Christopher Hitchens, tickled my ears and became my teachers of choice as I sketched on. I waded through psychobabble, took note of debating techniques, patterns…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
By Lorcan Crone, age 12, from London (published without alterations to text)
Hate speech seems pretty simple, right? Well from a simple view it is, from a simple view it is hating something/someone and is usually associated with racism, which is linked to right-wing groups and views, however, does hating someone like trump count as hate speech or is it just free speech?
Lorcan Crone. Photo: Crone family album.
There is hate on the right and the left, such as the alt-right on the right, which are usually white ultra-nationalists which believe in racist beliefs, however extreme left groups have the same…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Luisa Santangelo had highlighted their ties to the well-known bosses Santapaola and Turi Cappello. Wave of insults on Facebook. The reporters denounced the offenses and publicized the episode “You have offended my family”. “You are not worthy to name it”. Along with other insults and threats. The authors were two neo-melodic singers: Niko Pandetta and
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
By Jane Whyatt
No one wants to get hate speech, dogpile emoticons, bodyshaming photos or trolls with political paymasters in their news feeds. Journalists have to face them all the time in their daily work. How should we deal with this?
Saskia Solomon
Lorcan Crone
If we ban certain people, certain words or websites, isn’t that censorship? Therefore, that is the big question we put to Europe’s young people, to tell us what they think: should we be free to hate? Our 2017 Young Writers contest attracted over 70 entries in five languages from all over Europe. And now our jury of…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Daphne Caruana Galizia (copyright: daphnecaruanagalizia.com)
Dear Members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe,
Daphne Caruana Galizia was by all accounts Malta’s most widely read and influential journalist. She had an immeasurable impact on Malta’s politics over the course of her thirty-year career and single-handedly uncovered some of the country’s biggest corruption scandals, exposing Maltese institutions for their unwillingness to pursue powerful and well-connected members of the country’s business and political class.
Known by her hundreds of thousands of readers in Malta and elsewhere simply as ‘Daphne’, she was assassinated on 16 October 2017 in broad daylight by a…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
International press freedom delegation visiting Croatia: meeting with the Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović (copyright: Office of the President of the Republic of Croatia)
Please find here the English version
Veuillez trouver ici la version française
(Zagreb) Nachdem die Fact-Finding-Mission im Juni 2016 besonders negative Ergebnisse erbracht hat (hier finden Sie den Report), haben die Verteter von der South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), der Association of European Journalists (AEJ), der European Broadcasting Union (EBU), des European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF), der European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) und von Reporter ohne Grenzen (RSF) Anfang 2018 eine leichte Verbesserung der…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
