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Last Tuesday, Greece lost a brave journalist and a courageous citizen. The Greek journalist Costas Efimeros died, following a heart attack, at the age of 42
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
Truth and post-truth. conference in Leipzig 13-14 june The event is organised by the European Center for Press and Media Freedom Hoaxes and post-truth. How we were to discuss them Journalists, politicians, editors and those in government have a duty to formulate and compare concrete proposals for evaluating the responsibility and the correct practices of
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
With the dawn of immersive virtual reality (VR) technologies, data-collection is taking another leap toward recording our subtlest physical reactions and even our emotional states, writes Finn Lützow-Holm Myrstad, Head of section, digital services and electricity at the Norwegian Consumer Council and EU Co-chair of the Infosoc Committee of the Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD). Through the use of VR-devices fitted […]
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Media Policy Project
Editors across Europe make difficult decisions all the time. Is it OK to buy a gun without a licence, to expose lax laws? What about smuggling a knife onto an aeroplane, to highlight poor security? Or secretly filming a meeting to expose corruption allegations?
Not only journalists but also judges are trying to make consistent decisions that balance different aspects of human rights, such as privacy and freedom of expression.
Now thanks to a year-long collaboration between the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) and the European Media Law Institute (EMR) all the crucial cases from 2015 to 16…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
They were in the street with the Carabinieri. Among the owners of the property blocked because of abusive tenders, the mayor who is under house arrests In Sperlonga (province of Latina) on the morning of May 31, 2017, some people, in the presence of law enforcement agencies, insulted threateningly three journalists and a television operator.
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
It happened during a live broadcast from the Olympic Village. The journalist Redaelli: never happened anything like it. Damaged the camera On 29 May 2017, a television crew of the TV show Quinta Colonna (broadcast on Rete 4) – and composed by the journalist Elena Redaelli, an operator and two other people – was attacked
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
On May 30 during a live show with the editorial team of the TV show “Dalla Vostra Parte” (On Your Side). Mediaset: this is the fifth physical attack on our journalists On May 30th, 2017, the journalist Alessio Fusco and the video operators Elia Tortorini and Simone Perugini were attacked with kicks, punches, and shoves
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
In Isola Capo Rizzuto, Angela Caponnetto of RaiNews24 and Salvatore Gulisano of PiazzaPulita asked information about a priest arrested the day before Two men on a white Fiat launched death threats to the journalist Angela Caponnetto of RaiNews24, and two local operators of her crew, the journalist Salvatore Gulisano of PiazzaPulita (La7) and the filmmaker
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Along with four colleagues, Senator Elena Fattori asks what measures the Government intends to take What does the Government think of the high number of acts of intimidation, threats, and retaliation against journalists working in Lazio? The fact that 40 percent of episodes of intimidation detected by Ossigeno per l’Informazione in the entire national territory
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
In 2017, the Observatory found in this area almost 40% of the total national number of threats On May 3, 2017, Ossigeno publicly launched an alarm on the worrying situation of information workers in the Lazio region (read). Ossigeno asks the institutions for a specific knowledge-gathering investigation on violence and abuses committed against journalists, bloggers,
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
