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This monthly review of acts of intimidation in Italy is produced by Ossigeno per l’Informazione for the European Center for Press and Media Freedom of Leipzig (ECPMF), with the support of the European Monitoring In October 2016, Ossigeno per l’Informazione verified 150 cases of probable threats, intimidation and abuse that took place in Italy against
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english – Ossigeno Informazione
This monthly review of acts of intimidation in Italy is produced by Ossigeno per l’Informazione for the European Center for Press and Media Freedom of Leipzig (ECPMF), with the support of the European Union Monitoring In October 2016, Ossigeno per l’Informazione verified 150 cases of probable threats, intimidation and abuse that took place in Italy
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english – Ossigeno Informazione
The author is UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information. In Italy the article is published by “l’Espresso” weekly magazine Over the past decade, more than 800 journalists have been killed in the line of duty, and only 8% of these cases have been resolved. These are the official figures of the Director-General of UNESCO,
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Last week, the Press Recognition Panel recognised IMPRESS as an approved regulator under the conditions set out in the Royal Charter, with potentially wide-reaching implications for the UK press, including those already regulated by IPSO. Steven Barnett, Professor of Communications at the University of Westminster, argues that there is a world of difference between the two regulators that publishers have […]
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Media Policy Project
A few weeks before the elections, the Romanian Parliament abolished the radio-television fee posing the public broadcaster under direct financing from the state budget
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
Are you a young European leader who wants to make a change? Then the World Peace Initiative Foundations invites you to participate in the South East Europe Peace Summit, which will take place on December 15-18, 2016 in Tirana, Albania. The goal of the summit is to introduce inner peace as a tool for active peace […]
The post Call for participants for peace summit appeared first on European Youth Press.
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European Youth Press
by Ana Ribeiro
Leonard Kerquki, editor of Kosovar newspaper Gazeta Express, has allegedly received hundreds of death threats after screening a documentary he co-produced on an underreported aspect of the Kosovo War of the 1990s.
Leonard Kerquki, editor of Kosovar newspaper Gazeta Express (photo: private/facebook)
The film deals with crimes "against Serbian and Bosniak minorities" and the possible role the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) played in them. Leading political figures in Kosovo are connected with the now dismantled militant group made up of ethnic Albanians.
According to Reporters Without Borders, the day after the 23 October broadcast on…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Alicia Blum-Ross discusses how the newly revised ‘screen time’ recommendations by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) are actively trying to address the diversity of parents, but the conversation around ‘screen time’ still lacks counterbalance to the negative messages parents often receive about digital media. She argues that research findings from the Parenting for a Digital Future project tell a more nuanced story of digital technologies […]
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Media Policy Project
An edit-a-thon will take place in Belgrade on November 21st to boost the availability of accurate knowledge on media freedom in the largest open encyclopedia worldwide
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
Earlier this week the Press Recognition Panel agreed to recognise IMPRESS as an approved press regulator, convinced that it satisfied the 23 criteria set out under the Royal Charter. IMPRESS CEO Jonathan Heawood reflects on the process. See here for background to the decision. Accountability is a long and abstract word. As I found out this week, it is also […]
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Media Policy Project
