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How many victims have there been? The budgets revealed by the various international organizations vary inexplicably from 101 to 48, and this quells the alarm The massacre of journalists continues unabated. Probably, 2016 will be remembered as one of the bloodiest years of the last two decades. But it is very hard to gauge how
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
They accuse the media of “media lynching”. After the protests of Order, Democratic Party and M5S, the judges rejected the request The defendants in the maxi-trial on the ‘Ndrangheta named “Aemilia”, which has been going on for ten months in Reggio Emilia, contend that the trial is to be held behind closed doors, without admitting
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
The European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will, among efforts to tackle how to best safeguard children’s data, require parental consent for young people under the age of 16 who use digital services such as social media. Jeff Chester, executive director of the US-based Center for Digital Democracy, played a lead role establishing COPPA, including spearheading its 2012 update by the […]
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Media Policy Project
Across the globe the impulse to restrain media freedom stems from a variety of real and perceived “threats” By Dunja Mijatović (This statement was originally published on indexoncensorship.org on 20 January 2017) – In recent years, there has been a perceptible increase in far-reaching restrictions on the media across the globe. This impulse to restrain
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
This week, Ossigeno has verified and made know 5 cases of intimidation against journalists and information operators. Targeted because of their work: Corso Viola di Compalto, Virman Cusenza; Edoardo Bianchini; Elvira Terranova; Alessio Caspanello. They are 4 men and 1 woman. The methods of intimidation, according to the Ossigeno classification method, fall into the following types: Frivolous
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
by Ana Ribeiro
Despite appearing diverse with its hundreds of news outlets, Romania’s media landscape is actually controlled by a handful of magnates. With many of them facing criminal charges, the future of journalism in this EU country becomes even more uncertain.
Tycoons are falling from grace in Romania - and bringing their media companies further down with them. Photo: public domain
Reports have surfaced over the past months that prosecutors with the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) have specifically targeted and brought most media barons in Romania under investigation, sometimes obtaining convictions. This has put their media groups in jeopardy, with Adrian…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Child rights academic Sonia Livingstone has “edited” the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) to reflect the digital world in which we live in today. The Convention was adopted in 1989, and since then the internet has become an integral part of children’s lives in ways which Sonia argues should be reflected in today’s interpretation and […]
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Media Policy Project
The director, Alberto Spampinato, has illustrated them live on January 11, 2017. “To discuss them is the first thing to do” For the second year in a row, in the statistics compiled by Ossigeno the Lazio region is the Italian region with the largest number of threatened journalists: 103 of 412 in 2016, 201 of
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
They are Marco Travaglio and Giuseppe Giustolisi. In a 2006 article they revealed relations between the former deputy prosecutor and an entrepreneur The Court of Appeals of Rome upheld an acquittal of 2011 against the journalists Giuseppe Giustolisi and Marco Travaglio. The two were sued by the then prosecutor of Catania, Giuseppe Gennaro, for an
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
CALL FOR EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERS For online information campaign dedicated to promoting the role of youth work in preventing violent extremism of youth Goal of the campaign: to create a community of young people and youth workers who are motivated to discuss and act on the issue of prevention of violent radicalisation of youth and […]
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European Youth Press
