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Sicily. Regional director insults journalist on facebook

Egidio Morici (Tp24.it) has been called an “information bandit” by the Regional MP Lo Sciuto who also announced a lawsuit. UNCI intervenedOn 29 August 2016 the journalist Egidio Morici, a collaborator of the online newspaper Tp24.it, was insulted on Facebook and threatened with lawsuit by Giovanni Lo Sciuto, MP of the region of Sicily with

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

Pisa football. Fans attack two television crews

Involved a journalist and a RAI operator and a journalist and an operator of the broadcaster TeleGranducato. Assostampa and Ussi of Tuscany intervene On August 25, 2016 two television crews, one of RAI and one of TeleGranducato – a Tuscan broadcaster – were shoved and insulted by fans of Pisa Calcio while they were at

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

Finland: Parliamentary working group makes recommendations to public service broadcaster

by Anette Alén-Savikko In late 2015, Finnish Minister of Transport and Communications Anne Berner set up a parliamentary working group to tackle the role of the Finnish public service broadcaster, Yleisradio (Yle). Among other measures, the working group has since recommended that the scope and primary task of the service be redefined, while its financial independence should be preserved. The recommendations the Finnish Parliament's working group made to public broadcaster Yle will probably come into force by early 2017, and have met with mixed reactions from media organisations in Finland. (Photo: public domain) The ECPMF had earlier published…

Source: European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)

Sicily. City council manager of Canicattì insults publisher

Cesare Sciabarrà has been called a “poor man who perhaps suffers from notoriety sickness ” by the official Paolo Adamo. Solidarity from the mayor of the city A manager of the City of Canicattì, Paolo Adamo, insulted – on Facebook and in some press releases – Cesare Sciabarrà, publisher of the online newspaper Canicattiweb.com, calling

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

Turkey: Evrensel journalists must be released immediately

The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) is backing the urgent call of his affiliates in Turkey, demanding the immediate release of Turkish journalists Cemil Ugur and Halil Ibrahim Polat

Source: Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News

Molise. 4 journalists to trial for a press release

Journalists had copied a note for the replica printing of the volume “Il Regno del Molise” (The kingdom of Molise) The judge for the preliminary hearings of the Court of Campobasso indicted with aggravated libel accusation through the press the former President of the Molise Region, Michele Iorio, and the journalists Mario Sechi and Daniela

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

Como. Crew of Rete 4 attacked, photo reporters pushed away

During the protest of migrants who fail to pass the border with Switzerland and are camped at the train station In Como, the journalist Simona Peverelli was surrounded, together with her sound engineer and the cameraman who were with her, by a group of people, who have snatched the camera cables and shoved around the

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

Pistoia. He writes “mayor under investigation” and is raided by the police

Stefano Brogioni of the Nazione is under investigation for disclosure of official documents. Seized computer and phone FLORENCE, AUGUST 8th – Searches were carried out against Stefano Brogioni, reporter of La Nazione, on the part of the police investigative unit as part of a file opened by the prosecutor in Pistoia following the publication, on

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Mafia. Borrometi threatened for an article on clan from Syracuse

“I’ll kick your ass” Salvatore Giuliano wrote on Facebook from his son’s Gabriel account. Insults to the reporter also to the web site Articolo21.org The journalist Paolo Borrometi, chief editor of the online newspaper La Spia, reported that he was threatened openly, on August 22, 2016, on Facebook, by Salvatore Giuliano, which he referred to as

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

Camorra. Warning to reporter from Acerra (Naples): “Don’t make us angry”

Be careful what you write about, three men told Nino Pannella. Recently he had covered the revelations of a repentant. FNSI leaders, Order of Journalists and the regional Union of Campania: we will sign his articles On August 8, 2016, at the entrance of the municipal police command of Acerra (in the province of Naples),

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione