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Deadline: 15 November, 2019 The German non-profit organization International Journalists’ Programmes announces its twenty-first bursary in 2020 for journalists from Germany and the five Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. In 2015 the exchange with the Baltic countries Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania was also included. Up to eleven German and eleven […]
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European Youth Press
Philip Schlesinger, Professor in Cultural Theory at the University of Glasgow and Visting Professor at the LSE, looks at Scotland’s post-devolution media and the wider forces driving change in the communications ecology. Following Scottish devolution in 1999, the Scottish media became increasingly central to the new democratic polity. A system of political communications, centred on the Scottish government and parliament, […]
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Media Policy Project
Deadline: 30 October, 2019 The Broad is looking for young and enthusiastic journalists, who are just kickstarting their career and looking for a publisher which would provide a platform for raising their voice. What the Broad seeks, is an interesting, refreshing look at the same stories, that we are used to seeing in the […]
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European Youth Press
The problem of misinformation – which inspired our Truth, Trust and Technology Commission – continues to be an issue that attracts widespread concern, particularly its effect on elections. Here we revisit the various definitions of ‘bad-information’ as described by Hossein Derakhshan, an Iranian-Canadian author, researcher, and public speaker, who pioneered blogging, podcasts and tech journalism in Iran. In the Information Disorder report for […]
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Media Policy Project
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PAUL CARUANA GALIZIA - Son of Daphne Caruana Galizia
REBECCA VINCENT - UK Bureau Director, Reporters Without Borders
CAOILFHIONN GALLAGHER QC - Barrister, Doughty Street Chambers
Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was assassinated by a car bomb on 16 October 2017. Nearly two years on, there has still been no justice for her murder. In June 2019, PACE adopted a resolution noting that "Ms Caruana Galizia’s murder and the continuing failure of the Maltese authorities to bring the suspected killers to trial or identify those who ordered her assassination raise serious questions about the rule of law in Malta,"…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Three years after its first edition, the impression that emerges from the Media Days – an event promoted by the EU Commission in the Balkans – is that of a telenovela with a predictable ending, where the characters move within a well-defined perimeter. But the region's media need more
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
Deadline: 15 October, 2019 The EU Prize for Journalism recognizes the work of journalists who have demonstrated integrity and professionalism in Georgia. Entries can be submitted for one of the following categories: story in print or online media; feature story in broadcast or online media; innovative and original piece of work in print, broadcast or […]
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European Youth Press
by Renata Rat
86 days! It took the Maltese government 86 days to set up a public inquiry into the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia. The news came in on Friday, 20. September, late in the evening. Although this is a step in the right direction to finally bringing justice to the murdered journalist, the impartiality of the inquiry’s board is concerning.
On 26. June 2019, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) voted to adopt the report on Malta prepared by Special Rapporteur of the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe on the assassination of the…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Deadline: 31 October, 2019 Hostwriter, a platform that lets vetted journalists contact each other for collaboration opportunities, will award cash prizes for works of collaborative journalism and for a promising story pitch. There are two prize categories: the story prize for collaborative pieces researched and published, the pitch prize for journalists with an idea for a story […]
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European Youth Press
Deadline: 16 October, 2019 The Mobile Film Festival, in partnership with the United Nations and YouTube Creators for Change, is accepting submissions from around the world. Films must be shot with a mobile phone and include subtitles in their original language via Dotsub. About 50 videos will be chosen as the official selection. From November 14 to December 4, online visitors will be able […]
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European Youth Press
