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by ECPMFAs more than 70 journalists continue to be detained under the state of emergency, national and international journalists’trade union leaders have made an official delegation to the Turkish ambassador in London. They carried the banners of the media freedom campaign: ’Journalism is not a crime’
#journalismisnotacrime
One hundred and one media organisations, including three news agencies, 16 television channels, 23 radio stations, 45 daily newspapers, 15 magazines and 29 publishing houses have been closed down by government decree as President Erdogan cracks down on critical media following an apparent military coup attempt last month.
The National Union…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Ola AljariFor Europeans, it is hard to grasp the daily reality of living in a war zone, or to understand why hundreds of thousands of Syrians risk their lives to seek asylum here. The war is complicated, and has been going on for so long that many TV viewers and newspaper readers experience ‘compassion fatigue’. But citizen journalists in the region are trying new ways to engage the audience, using Virtual Reality (VR).
SMART is a Syrian news agency that was founded in 2013. The first movie SMART produced using virtual reality was about Jesr AlShughur, a city in…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Ola AljariFor Europeans, it is hard to grasp the daily reality of living in a war zone, or to understand why hundreds of thousands of Syrians risk their lives to seek asylum here. The war is complicated, and has been going on for so long that many TV viewers and newspaper readers experience ‘compassion fatigue’. But citizen journalists in the region are trying new ways to engage the audience, using Virtual Reality (VR).
SMART is a Syrian news agency that was founded in 2013. The first movie SMART produced using virtual reality was about Jesr AlShughur, a city in…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Angharad Rudkin, child clinical psychologist at the University of Southampton, examines the challenges facing parents in how to determine what degree of screen time is harmful or beneficial for their children. This blog coincides with a new Media Policy Project policy brief on the subject, authored by LSE’s Alicia Blum-Ross and Sonia Livingstone. It is stating the obvious I know, but screen time […]
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Media Policy Project
By Ana Ribeiro
Hajo Seppelt’s continuing investigation into athletes’ doping practices has posed a potential danger to him during the Olympics in Brazil. The journalist, who works for German broadcaster ARD, has confirmed to Deutsche Welle that he has been “under the protection of two members of the elite troop of Rio de Janeiro's military police.”
Screenshot from Hajo Seppelt's website, http://hajoseppelt.de.
“The 53-year-old reporter has received an increasing number of threats - sometimes delivered via Twitter and YouTube - from Russia but more recently from Kenya,” according to the same Deutsche Welle report. Seppelt is very active…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Tobias RaabIn a judgement given on May 19th 2016, the UK Supreme Court ruled in favour of a celebrity who had taken legal actions against the News Group Newspapers. The Court ruled with a majority of 4:1 (Case no.: [2016] UKSC 26).
The celebrity and his wife have two young children and are well-known individuals in the entertainment business. He had a sexual relationship with one person between 2009 and 2011 and, on one occasion, a sexual encounter with that person and a third person. After the editor of the Sun on Sunday newspaper, published by News Group Newspapers…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Are you a young media-maker, designer/developer/programmer or human rights activist? Are you concerned about the refugee crisis in Europe and feel passionate for data-driven journalism?
The post Call for participants: Data-driven journalism appeared first on European Youth Press.
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European Youth Press
Interview by Ana Ribeiro
In light of its recent launch and freshly funded projects, ECPMF has caught up with Press Start Project Leader Jaroslav Valuch to talk about what makes a successful crowdfunding campaign, how journalists from around the world can make use of Press Start, and a few other related topics.
ECPMF: What happened between the end of the Kickstarter campaign Press Start had engaged in and the Press Start launch in mid-July - how did you go about raising the funds needed which the Kickstarter campaign didn't provide?
Valuch: After the Kickstarter campaign we were basically volunteering to make the…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
By Ana Ribeiro
After a longer gestation time than expected, Press Start is now up and running. In the first round of crowdfunding via the platform, three out of five journalists - from Macedonia, Armenia and Congo - reached their funding goals within the initial period.
Screenshot from crowdfunding platform press start.
The other two journalists - from Lebanon and Honduras - have an extra 13 days as of today to reach their respective goals. All five campaigns selected for participation deal with investigating and exposing abuses or shortcomings in their societies.
Press Start sets itself apart from other…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
The reform of the Broadcasting Code in Moldova threatens to affect media pluralism in the country
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
