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Deadline: 1 November 2017 Young and upcoming film critics from outside the Netherlands get less opportunities to explore and sharpen their knowledge and views on independent and experimental cinema. International Film Festival Rotterdam recognizes the important role of film criticism and supports journalistic talent with a trainee project for the next wave of film […]
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European Youth Press
Deadline: 8 October 2017 Journalists ages 25 to 40 can apply to attend this event. The Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) is organizing 11th ASEF Journalists’ Seminar, in conjunction with the 13th ASEM Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (ASEM FMM13) Nov. 17 to 22 in Naypyidaw, Myanmar. The seminar’s theme is “Shaping public perceptions and minds towards achieving […]
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European Youth Press
Students, bloggers, artists and writers can submit their innovative storytelling to a contest. The Media School at Bournemouth University is accepting entries for its New Media Writing Prize (NMWP). NMWP is looking for innovative and interactive storytelling (fiction or nonfiction) written specifically for delivery and reading/viewing on a PC or Mac, the web or a hand-held […]
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European Youth Press
Hamza Yalçın: “Freedom of expression doesn’t exist anywhere at the moment”
By Jaz Allen-Sutton
Hamza Yalçın is free. After two months in Spanish prison the government decided against extraditing the Turkish-Swedish journalist to Turkey. How does he feel? What are his plans?
Hamza Yalçin, editor of "Odak Dergisi" (picture: Odak Dergisi)
“You were in prison for 56 days,” I said.
“Really, is it that long?” Hamza Yalçın replied.
He had heard only a few hours earlier that he was going to be allowed to return to his home in Sweden after being arrested whilst on holiday in Barcelona. Charges of insulting the President and disseminating terrorist propaganda…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
An ongoing Commons Select Committee inquiry into ‘fake news’ is expected to look in detail at the role that intermediaries of information such as Facebook and Google play. Their significance in the online landscape is not in question: it is likely that the two companies will account for more than half of all UK digital ad revenues by the end […]
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Media Policy Project
by Jane Whyatt
Europe’s media freedom community is celebrating the release from jail of Turkish-Swedish journalist Hamza Yalçin. The fifty-nine year old Swedish-Turkish citizen has been held in the Brians prison near Barcelona since he was arrested on August 3rd at the airport.
Hamza Yalçin was in Spanish jail since August 3rd. (Picture: Odak)
But although he is allowed to leave his prison cell, he is still not free. Yalçin must regularly report to the Spanish police. His passport is withdrawn and he is not allowed to travel back to the small town in Sweden that has been his home since 1984.…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
First the closure of the weekly Novine Vranjske and the hunger strike of its director, then the Defense minister's attack against the investigative portal Krik. Hard times for independent media in Serbia
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
Italy. The most dangerous news from Ossigeno. August 2017 Leipzig. Ossigeno at conference “Defending journalists under threat” October 5. Solidarity, support and safe houses. Practical solutions for tackling the many threats that media workers face (see more below) Ghent University. Seminar Press Freedom Under Threat. OSSIGENO. October 10 Ossigeno organize an international seminar with students
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
by Jane Whyatt
Marking the closure of the independent newspaper Vranjske novine, twenty eight Serbian campaign groups are making 28th September a day of “official mourning“ with a temporary media blackout.
The message says "This is how it looks when there are no media"
The newspaper had been investigated for tax reasons by the government, and closed “due to unbearable economic and political pressure“, according to the Slavko Curavija Foundation. The editor-in-chief and owner of Vranjske, Vukasin Obradovic, started a hunger strike in protest. He is a former leader of the NUNS Serbian journalists’ trade union and in 2009 won the OSCE…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
This monthly review of acts of intimidation in Italy is made by Ossigeno per l’Informazione for the European Center for Press and Media Freedom in Leipzig (ECPMF) with the support of the European Union Threats, acts of intimidation, attacks: the most serious cases THE SPECIAL – Klaus Davi. “Calabria? It’s a goldmine, but I’m the only one
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english – Ossigeno Informazione
