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The facts of Palermo are not an isolated case. The episodes of intolerance against the right/duty to inform are becoming recurrent. The temptations of censorship The hand obscuring the telephoto lens to prevent the filming of the images of what is happening at the Palermo demonstration of the Five Star Movement is the representation of
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
On 26 September 2016 the journalist reconstructed the story of the acts of intimidation he received before the alleged perpetrator of the threats. Present in court the FNSI On 26 September 2016 the journalist Paolo Borrometi, chief editor of LaSpia news website and collaborator for the AGI press agency, testified in the court room of
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O2 in 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 Special Ossigeno’s Report on Law Bill on Cyberbullying (see below) Monitoring01 In September 2016, Oxygen for Information verified 200 cases of probable
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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 Special Ossigeno’s Report on Law Bill on Cyberbullying (see below) Monitoring In September 2016, Oxygen for Information verified 200 cases of
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english – Ossigeno Informazione
The EBU is deeply concerned about the threat to HRT in Croatia by plans to make a reduction of the licence fee part of the negotiations to form a new government
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
MEPs launch whistleblowing platform
by Ingrida Milkaite
The first meeting of the Committee of Inquiry into Money Laundering, Tax Avoidance and Tax Evasion (PANA) was held in Brussels on 27 September. It concerned the launch of a new whistleblowing platform organised by the Greens/European Free Alliance.
A group of EU parliamentary members is supporting a new whistleblowing platform, "euleaks", within the framework of investigations into EU law maladministration. (Photo: public domain)
The online platform – euleaks.eu – will allow whistleblowers to upload documents securely and anonymously. At the meeting, participants heard from investigative journalists from the ICIJ (who uncovered the…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
The independent online journalist Aleksandr Sotnik yesterday announced that he had fled Russia following threats connected to his critical reporting on Kremlin policies
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
Public information during the Brexit campaign – including that provided by official civil service sources – was criticised for bias and distortion. Jim Macnamara, Professor of Public Communication at the University of Technology Sydney and a Visiting Professor at LSE’s Media and Communications Department, argues that governmental and other communications services should focus less on getting their message across, and […]
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Media Policy Project
by Daria Sukharcuk
"Sexual attacks against journalists have the effect of silencing the messenger and blocking the dissemination of news and information," the Committee to Protect Journalists concluded in its 2011 report. Not much has changed since then; but more women are standing up for the right to do their jobs without being physically or verbally assaulted.
Unwanted sexual advance on a woman. (Photo: Edith Castro Roldán, Oscar Manuel Luna Nieto - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=38763173)
“I was 21 when I was interviewing a Canadian writer about an English-language writers’ club in Shanghai. It was my…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Ingrida Milkaite
The Austrian Supreme Court (ASC) has asked the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to clarify two issues associated with the Facebook privacy class action claim. The case was initiated by Austrian lawyer Maximilian Schrems five years ago.
Austrian lawyer Max Schrems invited Facebook users to join his class action against Facebook, and 25,000 people signed up, claiming 500 euros in damages each. He is seeking the right to represent all those people in the claim. Issues are to be clarified by the ECJ. (Image: public domain)
The ASC request came out on 12 September.…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
