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By ECPMF staffFor the last decade, the University of Oxford has been nourishing a unique undertaking, the Price International Media Moot Court, one of the world’s largest moots and an intense tool to spread instruction in the role of speech in society and the building of values in an emerging generation of leaders across the world.
Oxford University
The Price Moot Court’s objective is to train the brightest legal minds from around the world to become defenders of media freedom and to better understand the dynamic and complex legal issues involved in today’s transnational and technologically changing communication and media…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Jane WhyattMedia freedom campaigners have welcomed the news that two of Ireland’s biggest companies will not be merging after all.
NUJ Acting General Secretary (2nd left) at ECPMF at Dublin conference on media ownership (Photo: ECPMF/Nora Wehofsits)
Denis O’Brien’s Independent News and Media Holdings was set to acquire the local radio and newspaper networks of CMLN Limited, formerly Celtic Media Newspapers Limited. The takeover was debated at ECPMF’s Newsocracy#2 conference in Dublin where Social Democrat TD (Member of parliament) Catherine Murphy explained why she had introduced a new law in the Irish Daìl, the parliament. The Private Members Bill on…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Jane WhyattFrench journalists and media companies are already worried that the new government of President Emanuel Macron plans curbs on their freedom.
Emmanuel Macron (Photo: Kremlin.ru, Emmanuel Macron during his meeting with Vladimir Putin, June 2017, CC BY 4.0)
The ability to protect confidential sources and the independence of public service broadcasting are already under pressure. And there’s anger that a government minister has personally telephoned a radio station to complain about journalists who are investigating his affairs.
In a strongly worded press release, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) condemned the use of the so-called “Bloche law“ against Libération, the left-wing national…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by ECPMF staffEurope's media freedom campaigners, gathered in Leipzig for the EPMCF ’Truth’ conferned, have worn bags on their heads in a symbolic act of solidarity with jailed journalist Afghan Mukhtarli.
Europe's media freedom campaigners showing solidarity with jailed journalist Afghan Mukhtarli. (Photo: ECPMF/Andreas Lamm)
The action mirrors similar acts by Georgian journalists in the parliament and on TV. ECPMF’s protest shows sympathy with Mukhtarli, who was abducted and bundled into a car with a bag on his head. It happened near his home in the Georgian capital Tblisi, and he was driven to Baku in Azerbaijan where he has been…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
FLutura KusariThe Union of Albanian Journalists condemned on Tuesday two defamation lawsuits launched by Gjin Gjoni – a member of the High Council of Justice, HJC – targeting two media outlets and four journalists.
The Union described the lawsuits as doomed to fail: "The Union of Albanian Journalists has been informed about this judicial assault launched by a member of the High Council of Justice, Gjin Gjoni, against several journalists and the respective media, with the legal pretense that his image has been tainted,” the Union said in a statement. “The Union considers this action triggered by a controversial name…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
The perception of children’s rights online needs to change, argue LSE’s Sonia Livingstone and Western Sydney University’s Amanda Third, who together prepared a special issue of New Media and Society: Children and young people’s rights in the digital age: An emerging agenda. Children and young people are simultaneously hailed as pioneers of the digital age and feared for as its […]
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Media Policy Project
Pasquale Gallo (Il Giornale di Caivano) had told of a woman’s raid during the session to report electoral fraud. Solidarity from SUGC On May 26, 2017, Simone Monopoli, mayor of Caivano (in the province of Naples), sued for libel Pasquale Gallo, responsible for the blog Il Giornale di Caivano and author of an article published
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
The journalist Raffaella Cosentino, defended by the Legal Assistance Office of Ossigeno, reported on the L’Espresso on presumed irregularities in the CARA The freelance journalist Raffaella Cosentino, defended by the Legal Assistance Office of Ossigeno per l’Informazione (read), has been sued by Pasquale Poerio, a city councilor of Isola Capo Rizzuto (in the province of
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
“You’re not getting out alive”, the three aggressors said to the reporter Chiara Squaglia and the cameraman who had documented the sexual requests to competitors “You’re not getting out alive”: these are the words addressed to the reporter the Canale 5 TV show Striscia la Notizia, Chiara Squaglia, and her camera operator by three men
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Free entry. On stage, the Scoop Jazz Band and saxophone player Nicola Alesini at 20:30 pm at the “Centrale Montemartini” Museum On the occasion of the European Music Festival, on June 21, Ossigeno per l’Informazione will organize the “Concert for Press Freedom and the right to be informed” from 20.30 to 23.00 at the “Centrale
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
