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“There is a growing need of a good, free and independent journalism. This is a value that we should keep protecting and defending” This is the message that Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni sent to Ossigeno per l’Informazione on the occasion of the Conference “Threatened Journalists, Attackers Unpunished” held on 23 October in the Italian Senate.
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
This is the percentage of attackers that have been condemned for their threats. This and other findings are presented by Ossigeno that has been collecting data for verified cases from 2011. Findings are also related to legal expenses. Impunity is almost a rule for those who threaten journalists. 99% of perpetrators of physical as well
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
This is the message that the Ministry of Justice sent to Ossigeno for the Conference “Threatened Journalists, Attackers Unpunished” held on 23 October 2017 at the Italian Senate I send my best wishes to the President of the Republic, to the Authorities there, to the participants and to the speakers. I thank the Observatory Ossigeno
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
The investigative journalist and author Petra Reski protests in her blog about the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights From Ecpmf.eu – The investigative journalist and author Petra Reski protests in her blog that the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights represents an attack on freedom of expression. Its ruling hinges
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
No news today. In Greece up to 20,000 retired journalists find themselves ineligible of their pensions and health care. The Union of the Athenian Journalists (ESIEA) decided a 48 hours strike on Tuesday and Wednesday. Four women have been on hunger strike for more than ten days.
Greek journalists on hunger strike
By Vicky Spyropoulou, Athens
Dear Colleagues at the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom ECPMF,
Greek Journalists’ struggle to save their self-managed Health Care and Social Security Organisation (EDOEAP) reaches its peak from today [Tuesday and Wednesday, 24th and 25th of October] on with a 48 hours strike in all…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
The speech made by Alberto Spampinato at the conference “Threatened Journalists, Attackers Unpunished”, Senate House, October 23, 2017 Introduction Why are we solemnly celebrating for the second consecutive year and in a prestigious institutional setting this United Nations International Day to put an end to Impunity for Crimes against Journalists? Because it enables us to
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
by Emil Weber
The decision by the Irish courts to issue the highest-ever defamation award against a major newspaper publisher was disproportionate and amounted to chilling effect on the press, a recent judgment of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) said.
kieranlynam, Four Courts, Dublin, Ireland, CC BY 2.0
The Evening Herald, which later changed its name to Herald, in 2004 serialised a story running through nine editions regarding a public relations consultant hired by the government. According to the series, the consultant was a supporter, came from the same city, and was acquainted with a major politician. She was hired…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Jane Whyatt and Alberto Spampinato
Just one week after Daphne Caruana Galizia was assassinated in Malta, the media freedom community, with United Nations backing, is meeting in Rome to call for an end to impunity for those who murder journalists. With music.
"End impunity for crimes against journalists"
In a prestigious, high-powered event at the Senate building in Rome, ECPMF’s partner organisation Ossigeno per l’informazione brings together journalists and students for an accredited training workshop about how and why reporters are killed - just for doing their job. Journalists who have signed up for in-service training with the Ordini dei Giornalisti…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Earlier this month, UK Culture Secretary Karen Bradley outlined proposals intended to make Britain ‘the safest place in the world to be online,’ addressing ‘dangers like cyber-bullying, trolling and under-age access to porn.’ LSE Professor Sonia Livingstone, who was commissioned by DCMS in February to provide up to date evidence of how young people are using the internet and the gaps […]
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Media Policy Project
By Emil Weber
A German national and international businessman, Mr. Boris Fuchsmann, lost his application at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on October 19th concerning the references to him in a wider article published by the "The New York Times" nearly sixteen years ago.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg (photo: Nicoleon, Cour européenne des droits de l'homme, CC BY-SA 4.0)
The prestigious US newspaper reported in summer 2001 on police investigations in New York against a media company under suspicion of corrupt and unlawful payments for a broadcasting licence in Ukraine. According to the article, in…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
