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Today, 25 October, the Press Regulation Panel is expected to make a decision on whether or not to recognise Impress as an approved regulator of the UK press. A recognised regulator would clear the way to commence Section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013, and activate the exemplary damages provision. The Media Policy Project’s Emma Goodman explains the […]
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Media Policy Project
Concerns about independence and sustainability of the public broadcaster, as Romania proposes to abolish the subscription fee and introduce direct funding of the public radio-television
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
We, the undersigned organisations, recognise that the Turkish government has the right and responsibility to investigate the violent events of the July 2016 coup attempt and to bring all those responsible to justice. We also recognise that the immediate aftermath of the attempted coup is the type of exceptional circumstance in which a government could legitimately invoke a state of emergency but still has to comply with their human rights obligations.
We are however increasingly concerned that the far-reaching, almost unlimited discretionary powers exercised by the Turkish authorities during the first three months of the state of emergency – now…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
We are very sad to announce the dead of our friend, the American/British journalist Gavin MacFadyen, 76. He died of lung cancer on Saturday October 22nd 2016. Gavin was member of the ECPMF Supervisory Board and known to many as Director of the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) at Goldsmiths, University of London. At the CIJ, he had the aim to foster in-depth reporting and support investigative journalists who got into threatening situations because of their work.
Gavin MacFadyen (photo: ECPMF/Lamm)
Before he founded the CIJ in 2003, he built a career as director and producer of…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Last week, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) revised its stance on screen time. Sonia Livingstone takes a closer look at the new recommendations and their evidence base. She argues that while the new guidelines fit better with the current circumstances of family lives, the AAP faces a dilemma: there isn’t yet a robust body of research on the effects of digital media on children, yet parents […]
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Media Policy Project
By Ana Ribeiro and Ingrida Milkaite
Over the past few years, media channels internationally have been restricting, mostly disabling or completely removing their online comments sections. They cite reasons such as a spike in hate speech or even lack of interaction compared to the response on social media.
The European Union broadly defines "illegal hate speech" as that inciting violent action or hatred towards certain groups. With political forces urging moderation of hate speech, coupled with the current growth in the volume of such speech, maintaining these public interaction spaces is becoming costlier for online outlets.
There is now the distinct possibility…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
By Ingrida Milkaite
TV reporter Fatima Manji, a speaker at the ECPMF's 2016 conference in Leipzig, fears further threats after Britain’s press regulator threw out her complaint against The Sun newspaper. Manji, a Muslim woman, reported for Channel 4 News on the deadly terror attacks in Nice, which led to criticism by a commentator in the British newspaper this summer.
Fatima Manji at the ECPMF Media freedom conference 2016 (photo: ECPMF/Lamm)
The Sun article by Kelvin MacKenzie attacked Manji and her employer Channel 4 News, expressing that someone in a hijab (headscarf) should not present news of a…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Until 8 November 2016, threatened media freedom activists and journalists from EU and pre-accession countries can apply for the ECPMF Journalists-in-Residence-Programme
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
VIENNA, 29 September 2016 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today urged the authorities in the United Kingdom to intensify their efforts to find the killers of investigative journalist Martin O’Hagan, who was shot and killed in September 2001. “Fifteen years on from this horrific murder, no one has been brought
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
At the Press Club Brussels Europe
, in two sessions the “Marking International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists (IDEI)
A debate on International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists (IDEI) will be held in Brussels Thursday 27 October 2016, 12h – 14h30
at the Press Club Brussels Europe (PCBE), Rue Froissart 95, 1000 Brussels The Press Club
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
