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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 Ossigeno proposes “hotspots” on press freedom attacks This proposal, which had been announced during the seminar held on October 10th at Ghent University, was subsequently illustrated and discussed during
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
By Jane Whyatt
European competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager fights for fairness on the European market, also against massive corporate players like Google and Apple. In an interview with the ECPMF she talks about her role in Europe, the death of old media and the future of the market.
Margrethe Vestager, competition commissioner of the EU (copyright: Johannes Jansson/norden.org, Margrethe Vestager, ekonomi- och inrikesminister Danmark. Nordiska radets session i Kopenhamn 2011, CC BY 2.5 DK)
Would you say unfair competition is on the increase with Alphabet as a bad „role model“?
Our role is not to single out a company but to go after behaviour…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
By Emil Weber
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that an Istanbul publisher was wrongfully convicted of disseminating propaganda through one editorial in favour of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). The PKK is considered a terrorist organisation by Turkey and several international organisations.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg (photo: Nicoleon, Cour européenne des droits de l'homme, CC BY-SA 4.0)
The Second Section of the top European human rights court said in a judgement published on 11th October that the opinion piece in question was sympathetic to the intellectual roots of the PKK, but it did…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
The opening speech of Alberto Spampinato at the workshop “Attacks against journalists and violent censorship” held at the University of Ghent on 10 October 2017 In the opinion of Ossigeno, there is a lacking in the training and educational facilities of students about their right to exercise the freedom of expression and the press. This
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
The President of Ossigeno, Alberto Spampinato, made this speech in Leipzig on October 5, 2017, at the conference “Defending journalists under threats” When he was murdered, 45 years ago, my brother Giovanni was 25 years old. I was 22. I was a student. He was a journalist. For three years he had been a reporter for the daily evening newspaper L’Ora
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
A tool for attendant of seminars organised by the Observatory about its methodology OSSIGENO PER L’INFORMAZIONE (Ossigeno) is an Italian non-profit organisation operating as a centre for information and journalism on the news overshadowed by violence in Italy. Formally registered as an association in 2011, it was established in 2008 by FNSI, (National Federation of
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
In 2015 Canadian-Greek journalist Will Vassilopoulos was reporting on the refugee crisis at Lesbos and Idomeni for AFP. At ECPMF's 2017 conference "Defending journalists under threat" he talked about how what he witnessed caused 'moral injury' in him and his colleagues. Part of his impressive presentation was this film.
(with permission of AFP)…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Ethical Journalism Network
Journalists in Cyprus have launched a ground-breaking programme to help break an information impasse that has been in place since Turkish military action in the north led to the division of the country in 1974.
Leaders of journalists’ unions and the two media councils, responsible for self-regulation of media on both sides of the divide, met in the demilitarised buffer zone that separates the country’s Greek and Turkish-speaking communities on October 9 for a series of meetings with Harlem Désir, the recently-appointed Representative on Freedom of the Media of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
OSCE…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
"Defending journalists in danger: solidarity, support and protection". This was the title and the topic of the conference that the European Center for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) – a consortium of which OBC Transeuropa is a founding member – organised in Leipzig on October 5th. An opportunity for international dialogue on a wide-ranging topic such as freedom of expression in the Internet age.
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
This proposal, which had been announced during the seminar held on October 10th at Ghent University, was subsequently illustrated and discussed during a press conference at the Press Club Brussels Europe Given the high number of serious attacks against Italian journalists and bloggers (321 so far in 2017, 3406 from 2016 to date) and the
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
