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Between April and July 2016 Luigi Martino received five anonymous letters containing two cartridges already exploded. The chronicler deals with judicial news On 7 September 2016 the journalist Luigi Martino, chief editor of the Giornale del Cilento, police reporter and collaborator of Il Corriere del Mezzogiorno, denounced the Police of Marina di Camerota (in the
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
The sentence to eleven years after the publication of an article by Giacomo Amadori telling details of the life of the couple Adriano Celentano – Claudia Mori On July 20, 2016, the Fifth Criminal Division of the Supreme Court acquitted the journalist of Panorama, Giacomo Amadori, from charges of libel against the singer Adriano Celentano
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Dear Mr. Poroshenko,The European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) is concerned about the safety of journalists in your country and we strongly urge you as president to make sure that your government and all its institutions react to threats and violence against journalists.
The ECPMF writes a letter to Petro Poroshenko - President of Ukraine (photo: Kathrin Möbius, CC BY 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9807120)
The background for this letter are several incidents this summer:
On September 4th, one of the most popular TV stations in Ukraine, Inter TV, suffered an arson attack after weeks of threats in…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Media regulation in the UK has been affected, at least in part, by the requirements of European Union (EU) law. So, which areas are likely to change once the UK formally leaves the EU? Lorna Woods, Professor of Media Law at the University of Essex, addresses some key regulatory areas. The precise outcome is difficult to predict, of course, because […]
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Media Policy Project
The United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute is pleased to inform you about a new specialised course for media professionals within the UNICRI Journalism and Public Information Programme on New Threats. The UNICRI Masterclass on Cyber Threats aims to provide media and public relations professionals, as well as those planning a career […]
The post Call for: Participants for Cyber Threats Masterclass appeared first on European Youth Press.
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European Youth Press
Media organizations have demanded the release of the investigative journalist Jovo Martinovic folllowing claims that the prosecution pressured another suspect in the drug-related case to accuse him falsely
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
by Alberto Spampinato
Ossigeno per l'Informazione has created a wall panel showing the names, ages and faces of the 28 Italian journalists killed because of their work since 1960. It is asking schools, unions and institutions to host it on their premises, open to the public - so that their stories can be made timeless.
Giovanni Spampinato, Nov 1946-Oct 1972; the author's brother, he was killed over investigating the Mafia in Sicily. (Ossigeno panel photo)
Few people know that there have been so many, and few people (including journalists) remember or know their names at all, which are…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Eugen CojocariuThe Senate (upper Chamber of the Romanian Parliament) definitively rejected on 13 June 2016 the draft Law intended to abolish the audiovisual licence fee. The Chamber of Deputies (lower chamber) had rejected the project on 2 March 2016.
According to the initiators, 14 social-democrat Members of Parliament, the licence fee collected by the Romanian Public Broadcasting Services (PBS) would have been completely cut, without replacing it with another source of revenue. The initiators considered that the existing law is unfair and discriminates the public, which is obliged to pay for a service it does not consume or like,…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Eugen CojocariuThe Senate (upper Chamber of the Romanian Parliament) definitively rejected on 13 June 2016 the draft Law intended to obligate all the audiovisual media services providers under Romanian jurisdiction to broadcast daily at 7,00 a.m. the National Anthem, the complete version. The Chamber of Deputies (lower chamber) had rejected the project on 2 March 2016.
According to the initiators, two non afiliated Members of Parliament, the draft law was intended to reinforce the national feeling, the respect for the national insignia in a moment when, according to their opinion, these symbols are forgotten, neglected or even removed from…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Gianna IacinoIm Mai 2016 hat die italienische Regierung ein Informationsfreiheitsgesetz beschlossen. Es soll im Dezember 2016 in Kraft treten.
Die Initiative zur Einführung des Informationsfreiheitsgesetzes stammt von der Organisation Foia4Italy (=Freedom of Information Act for Italy), in der sich 32 Nichtregierungsorganisationen zusammengeschlossen haben. Der erste Entwurf des Gesetzes, veröffentlicht im Januar 2016, wich noch in großen Teilen von den Forderungen der Foia4Italy ab. Das nun vorliegende Gesetz setzt allerdings viele Forderungen um. Das Gesetz sieht das Recht jeden Bürgers vor Auskunft gegenüber Behörden zu verlangen, ohne das Informationsinteresse begründen zu müssen. Die Behörde muss die Auskunft kostenlos erteilen, es…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
