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Threats, protection, assistance, visibility, self-censorship. The themes of the interview with the director of the Observatory, Alberto Spampinato “The threats against journalists who do their job properly are numerous, more than you can imagine. We of Ossigeno speak of this problem which, according to common perception, does not even exist. But it is actually there,
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Tiziano Renzi has filed a civil lawsuit against the chief editor of Il Fatto Quotidiano for articles published in 2015-2016 describing his business The Corriere della Sera, on April 12, 2017, reported that the entrepreneur Tiziano Renzi, father of the former Prime Minister, filed a civil lawsuit for defamation against the journalist Marco Travaglio, chief
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
So many cases recorded in two years. Difficult relationships between media and sports. And the Anti-Mafia Commission investigates infiltrations by organized crime In the football world, the relationship between sports clubs and journalists becomes increasingly difficult due to intimidation and aggression by the fans and quarrels and various obstacles by sports clubs. From March 2015
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Paolo Mazzà, legal representative of Republica and L’Espresso, does not rule out the possibility of a retaliation or a warning. The FNSI calls for a meeting with the Minister for the Interior Paolo Mazzà, a trusted lawyer of Federica Angeli and other journalists at La Repubblica and L’Espresso, had his car burnt in the night
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Repubblica.it reveals: they were employees of the M5S parliamentary group. They have accused Mario Orfeo not covering Grillo and the CONSIP case The newspaper La Repubblica reported that two employees of the 5-star movement’s Senate parliamentary group, equipped with a video camera, and faking to be journalists, have assaulted the RAI 1’s News Director, Mario
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
A reflection and a positive balance of the Ossigeno campaign launched a year ago to remember journalists killed because of their work What bottom line can we draw out from the Ossigeno campaign, launched a year ago, to deploy the Memory Panel in major public locations? How has this initiative been welcomed by the highest
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Sent from a telephone booth in the Prati neighborhood to Luca Teolato, a contributor to the Il Fatto Quotidiano who recently published articles of inquiry on several topics The reporter Luca Teolato, freelance in Rome and contributor to Il Fatto Quotidiano, received five threatening text messages on his cellphone between February and April 2017. The
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
by Ingo Beckendorf
A Russian central district court has forbidden a cartoon showing President Vladimir Putin as a drag queen. Together with 4,000 other pieces of content, the picture is now on a list of supposedly extremist material. This means further censorship on Russian platforms.
Illustration of Putin's face - NOT the one referred to in the article. (Photo: public domain)
The caricature, which portrays Putin as a rouged drag queen, was shared many times on the internet. The Russian Ministry of Justice publishes the list with "extremist material", on which the cartoon is described with the following features: "Putin, […] colored…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Tobias Raab
The UK Supreme Court has dismissed three appeals based on Article 10 CFA on 11 April 2017 (Times Newspapers Limited v Flood (Case No. A2/2014/0120), Miller v Associated Newspapers Limited (Case No. HQ09X04347) and Frost and others v MGN Limited ([2016] EWHC 855).
Each of the three appellants sought an order for costs made by a High Court decision against a newspaper publisher following trial. Some involved allegations that the newspaper had libelled the claimant, some involved that the newspaper had unlawfully gathered private information about the claimants by hacking into their phone.
Each newspaper had been ordered to pay…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Tobias Raab
On 8 March 2017, the Higher Regional Court (Oberlandesgericht, OLG) of Stuttgart decided that an article about the so called "Panama Papers", which had been published by the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung in 2016, was permissible (Case no. 4 U 166/16).
offshoreleaks.icij.org (Screenshot icij.org)
In the present case, the newspaper had published an article titled "The Phantom" on 5 April 2016, both in its print edition and on its website. The article did not only deal with the Panama Papers themselves - which are information and data on offshore companies that had been founded and organised by a law firm…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
