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Deadline: 18 November 2017 Connect4Climate seeks proposals for the production of a virtual reality/360-video on how countries, cities, regions, businesses, civil society and individuals are “Uniting for climate action.” Anyone can submit a video pitch to this competition. Possible topics include solutions to overcoming climate threats for vulnerable and coastal communities, supporting ocean and environmental protection, […]
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Deadline: 1 December 2017 Students or recent graduates with a strong interest in journalism can apply for paid internships. The Thomson Reuters Journalism Internship program is accepting applications for its 2018 summer cycle. Most internships are in its New York and Washington bureaus, but opportunities may also exist in Toronto, Mexico City and São Paulo, as […]
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Deadline 30 November 2017 Smithsonian magazine is accepting submissions for its annual photo contest. Professional and amateur photographers can enter this contest. Contestants can submit up to 15 photos to each of the following categories: the natural world, travel, people, the American experience, altered images and mobile photos. The grand prize consists of US$2,500. Each category winner, along with […]
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Investigative journalists from across Europe who are planning a transnational collaborative story are invited to apply for a working grant. Teams consisting of at least two journalists from different European countries can apply for research grants for a cross-border story until Monday 20 November 2017 at 11.59 pm Brussels time. This is the only remaining deadline in […]
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The message sent for the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists (IDEI) on November 2 Paris, October 27 – Ninety percent of cases concerning the killing of journalists remain unpunished, according to information Member States provided to the Organization in 2017. This is a slight improvement compared to last year, when countries’
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
by Ilcho Cvetanoski
Mass media, as one of the pillars and watchdog of democracy, were heavily influenced and crippled during the eight years ruling of the previous VMRO–DPMNE-DUI government in the Republic of Macedonia. With the new government in power the media sector is expecting major changes.
Flag of the Republic of Macedonia
So far the new SDSM-DUI government, more than 90 days in office, has introduced only a small number of reforms in the media sector. Two minor amendments in the existing media related laws and a major one in progress.
The Law on Free Access to Public Information, as one of the…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
By Narek Mirzoyan Recent years have seen an increasing focus on greenhouse gases. This phenomenon influenced our climate and we can both see and feel the effects of climate change in our global environment. There is an increasing global response to this being proposed by different countries that understand the necessity to work together […]
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The Ossigeno’s review. Last news about attacks and violations of freedom of the press in Italy and other countries and about initiatives to tackle the issue Italian celebration in Rome of UNESCO International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists – October 23, 2017 VIDEO – WATCH IT Speeches from the conference – “Threatened
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
by Alberto Spampinato
Alberto Spampinato is the founder of Ossigeno per l’informazione (oxygen through information), a Rome-based observatory that monitors violations of press and media freedom in Italy. Ossigeno is a partner organisation of the EPMF. This is the story of his journalist brother who was murdered on this day 45 years ago.
The Italian journalist Giovanni Spampinato
When he was murdered, forty-five years ago, my brother Giovanni was 25 years old. For three years he had been a reporter for the daily evening newspaper L’Ora di Palermo. He was the special correspondent from Ragusa, a quiet town located in the far South East side of Sicily. That newspaper ceased to exist…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
By Emil Weber
Legal acts in Russia prohibiting the "public promotion of homosexuality among minors” actually “reinforce stigma and prejudice” and “encourage homophobia”, says a landmark ruling of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg (photo: Nicoleon, Cour européenne des droits de l'homme, CC BY-SA 4.0)
Europe's top court decided on June 20, 2017, that Russia’s homosexuality law and protests against that law amounted to violations of freedom of expression.
In March 2009, Mr Nikolay Viktorovich Bayev held a demonstration in front of a secondary school in Ryazan holding up two banners which read “Homosexuality…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
