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Call for: Entries for travel video contest

The 2016 InternationalStudent.com Travel Video Contest is now open for entries. Students from around the world once again have the chance to win the $4,000 grand prize, a $1,000 Viewers’ Choice Award, other runner up prizes, and, of course, worldwide fame.   Deadline: 14 October 2016   The contest is looking for the best video you can […] The post Call for: Entries for travel video contest appeared first on European Youth Press.

Source: European Youth Press

Journalists’ protection. Mijatovic (Osce) welcomes UN HR Resolution

“It’s a very positive step forward” OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović said. The resolution addresses the issue of impunity for attacks against journalists VIENNA, 29 September 2016 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović welcomed the UN Human Rights Council’s passing today of a resolution on the safety

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

Liberalisation of advertising & product placement rules in the AVMSD: a step too far?

Rachael Craufurd Smith, Reader in Media Law at University of Edinburgh, assesses the proposal made by the European Commission and response from the CULT Committee regarding the liberalisation of advertising and product placement rules. In May 2016 the European Commission put forward a legislative proposal that would significantly liberalise the advertising and product placement rules in the Audiovisual Media Services […]

Source: Media Policy Project

Bergamo. Matteo Salvini against Tg1: journalists are servants

The Northern League leader has defined in such a way the chroniclers of the public service news cast during the Pontida rally. Targeted by militants also Gad Lerner The secretary of the Northern League, Matteo Salvini, called “servants” the TG1 journalists during his speech in Pontida (in the province of Bergamo), on September 18, at

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

Saviano honored in Germany. Ms Merkel: example of courage

The author of Gomorrah received in Potsdam the M100 Media Award 2016. The chancellor has expressed respect for the Italian writer Potsdam, September 16 – Chancellor Angela Merkel underlined the “courage” of Roberto Saviano and called the anti-mafia writer a “shining example” which deserves the thanks of Germany. Ms Merkel, speaking in Potsdam at the

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

Black Monkey. Tizian asks for 100 thousand euro for damages to the accused

The reporter for L’Espresso is a plaintiff in the ‘Ndrangheta trial Tizian: “The constitution wants to be the sign of an information that does not bend”. On 15 September 2016 the journalist Giovanni Tizian of L’Espresso Group demanded a compensation of 100 thousand euro for the damage he suffered by the accused in the ‘Black

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

Palermo. Death threats to a local tv presenter

Giusy Randazzo and her husband were insulted on Facebook from an account that has proved to be bogus. Reported the incident to the police Giusy Randazzo, actress and known presenter of television stations broadcasting in Palermo, was the object of telematic stalking reported to the Police on August 10, 2016: an uninterrupted sequence of insults

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

Grosseto. Hunters press charges against animal rights activists: the court sends the case to the archives

The activist Giacomo Bottinelli, in a statement, criticized the excessive proliferation of hunting shotguns. For the same reason he had already received complaints from Federcaccia and Arcicaccia On 8 September 2016 the Court of Grosseto has filed a lawsuit for libel presented in March 2014 by a group of Tuscan hunters against Giacomo Bottinelli, chief

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

Cyberbullying. A law bill to be corrected

Changes made on 20 September 2016 by the Chamber of Deputies to the original text could allow censorship and severe abuse Ossigeno per l’Informazione believes that the changes made on September 20, 2016 by the Chamber of Deputies to the draft bill of law on combating cyberbullying, and which will now have to be re-examined

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

Aprilia (Latina province). Radio Studio 93 van set on fire

Filed a complaint against unknown persons. Solidarity from the board of the Roman press association and the president of the Anti-Mafia Commission of the Lazio region In the early afternoon of September 19, 2016 the van of the radio station Radio Studio 93, which is based in Aprilia (in the province of Latina) and in

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione