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         At an audience with the Pope where he explained how to practice their profession with honesty and their back held straight. The President of the Order, Enzo Iacopino, cites colleagues who work for a few Euros Fausto Gasparroni – VATICAN CITY, SEPTEMBER 22 – Pope Francis explained to journalists how to practice their craft. These
      
     
                 	                            	                                             	            
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         Grillo defines reporters as “fetishists”. Clashes at the Foro Italico upon the arrival of the mayor of Rome, Virginia Raggi, during a demonstration. Assange: reporters are murderers. Order of Journalists: we shall file a complaint Journalists pushed around and insulted by activists of the 5 Stars Movement (M5S) during the national holiday for the followers
      
     
                 	                            	                                             	            
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         Two innovative judgments from the Court of Strasbourg allow take steps forward for the right to criticize. The reputation of a politician gives way to freedom of expression The last few months have not passed in vain for the European Court of Human Rights. Two important ECHR judgments have, in fact, marked a deep divide
      
     
                 	                            	                                             	            
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         The Court of Rimini had asked for one year and six months imprisonment for the envoy of Striscia la Notizia and six months for the presenter. Sued by a models talent scout The Single-Member Court of Rimini has acquitted of defamation Michelle Hunziker and Max Laudadio, special envoy of Striscia la Notizia. April 16, 2016
      
     
                 	                            	                                             	            
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         For the Judge for the Preliminary Hearing of Vallo della Lucania Court “the facts do not amount to an offense” because the two terms are “belonging to the common lingo.” The disputed articles date back to 2012 Maurizio Troccoli, chief editor of ilgiornaledelcilento.it, Luigi Martino, a journalist of judicial news, and the publisher Mario Scarpitta
      
     
                 	                            	                                             	            
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         The European Federation of Journalists organised in Brussels, on 4th October 2016, the roundtable 'Refugees and Migrants, the inconvenient truths – Journalism against bias and stereotypes' 
      
     
                 	                            	                            	            
                                    	            
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         Rosaria Federico (Città di Salerno) had been called by the prosecutor as a person informed of the facts after the publication of an article on the murder of the Mayor Vassallo After refusing to reveal to the judges the source of his information, the journalist Rosaria Federico of La Città di Salerno has been denounced
      
     
                 	                            	                                             	            
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         Three months in jail or a fee of 1,603 €: the punishment for a Greek journalist exposing the extremist positions of a school headmaster discourages other journalists from writing freely
      
     
                 	                            	                            	            
                                    	            
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         On 6th and 7th October the 2nd European Media Freedom Conference is taking place in Leipzig at the Leipzig Media Campus Villa Ida After a very successful inaugural conference in 2015 the this years focus in Leipzig is on “working together for independent journalism – powerful journalism networks”. Ossigeno per l’Informazione will take part as a
      
     
                 	                            	                                             	            
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         Denied to a journalist and a photographer of La Nuova Sardegna the entrance to the stadium. Also excluded the envoy of SardegnaSport. Backed down after the mayor’s intervention On September 18, 2016 at the “Vanni Sanna” stadium in Sassari, during the Serie D football game Torres-San Teodoro, the club Torres has prevented a reporter, Antonio
      
     
                 	                            	                                             	            
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