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By Emil Weber
Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta and its reporter, Ms. Yelena Valeryevna Milashina, were backed on Tuesday by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) over their reporting on a fatal submarine accident which had left 118 persons on board dead.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg (photo: Nicoleon, Cour européenne des droits de l'homme, CC BY-SA 4.0)
The crux of the matter was whether their reporting of a lawyer’s statements representing the family of a dead lieutenant amounted to defamation, as the domestic courts had decided. The ECtHR ruled that Russian courts had unjustifiably limited the right of freedom…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Harlem Désir, Europe’s new champion of press freedom has launched a hard-hitting call to action. He told the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom conference in Leipzig, Germany: “We urgently need a very broad coalition to protect freedom of the media”.…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
The reporter of the TV show Striscia La Notizia and his collaborators were shooting a report on the abusive employment practices in a warehouse. Police intervened In Palermo, on September 21, 2017, journalist Stefania Petyx, reporter of the TV show Striscia La Notizia, her cameraman and an author of the show who was with them,
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
The European Centre for Press and Media Freedom is proud to announce this year’s competition for young writers. We ask you, young people under the age of 27, to write up to 1,000 words on the question: Should we be free to hate?
Darth Vader is a hater. For sure. Hate is where his strength and power comes from. His symbol is the death star.
Okay, it‘s fiction. Classic science fiction, actually.
In our world, the real world, most of the haters can be found in social media. There they hide behind a mask of anonymity. However more and more often they reveal themselves. Because they feel safe, because they think they have the right to say what they want to say.
Hate speech can be disturbing, embarrassing, frightening, destructive. So shouldn’t we just try to elimate it?…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Two people have targeted him after an article on the municipal elections in Avola (in the province of Syracuse) Paolo Borrometi, a collaborator of the AGI press agency and chief editor of the online magazine LaSpia.it, has been heavily insulted on Facebook by two people. On 11 September, Sebastiano Casto – condemned in the past
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
It happened in Melito di Porto Salvo to the chief editor of Capo Sud Television Channel, Domenico Vinci. A woman intervened. Then the Carabinieri On August 19, 2010, in Melito di Porto Salvo (Reggio Calabria), journalist Domenico Vinci, chief editor and publisher of the local TV station Capo Sud Television Channel, was shooting a video
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
By Jessica Jacques
Reporters have been beaten along with people attempting to vote in Catalonia’s independence referendum, which had been declared illegal by the Spanish government.
Catalanian journalists suffer exceptional situation
ECPMF’s member in Spain, the PDLI (Plataforma en Defensa de la Libertad de Información) is monitoring violations of press freedom and human rights in an online observatory created for these events.
A political journalist of the "El Periodico" news website, Xabi Barrena, was assaulted on Sunday by the National Police when reporting on the ‘1-0’ referendum at the Ramon Llull school in Barcelona, used as a polling station. The reporter was recording…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
By Emil Weber
Three Icelandic journalists have won a long-running defamation battle over the difference between using the words “investigation” (rannsókn) and “examine” (skoðun) to refer to police actions in response to complaints that have received.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg
Recently, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has questioned the limitation of their freedom of expression, arguing that the correct content and the context of media reporting is more relevant than knowledge of detailed, technical legal terminology.
Mr. Reynir Traustason and Mr. Jón Trausti Reynisson were editors at the newspaper "DV", and Mr. Ingi Freyr Vilhjálmsson was a…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Deadline: 20 November 2017 Journalists with ideas for cross-border stories can apply for research grants. Journalismfund.eu is offering grants to teams of journalists based in several countries working on a common story, which must have a European or cross-border theme. Applicants must demonstrate that the project is unusually costly in such a way […]
The post Call for journalists with ideas for cross-border stories for research grants appeared first on European Youth Press.
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European Youth Press
Deadline: 10 November 2017 Reuters seeks to develop the next generation of photojournalists to tell original human stories from their locations and communities anywhere in the globe. We are offering up to eight, $5,000 USD grants to photojournalists or students of photojournalism interested in working on photo assignments and projects to advance their abilities […]
The post Call for the next generation of photojournalists for Reuters grant appeared first on European Youth Press.
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European Youth Press
