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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
by Cristina BachmeierIn its decision in early March, the Westminster Magistrates Court found a British newspaper, The Sun, guilty of breaking the Sexual Offence (Amendment) Act after inadvertently identifying a victim of sexual assault.
The newspaper published a picture, which had been obtained from the social media platform Facebook, showing the victim together with the prominent perpetrator. The image of the victim had been heavily obscured by the newspaper and the article contained a warning that identification of the victim online and on social media would be followed by prosecution. The newspaper even included examples of convictions regarding identification of…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Antoine Deltour successfully avoided jail but was found guilty for theft by a court in Luxemburg following a case related to the prosecution of two whistleblowers and a journalist for disclosing confidential documents from auditing firm PwC that showed how 340 multinational companies used secret tax deals to avoid paying into the public coffers.
On June 29, the 12th chamber of the Criminal Court of Luxembourg sentenced Deltour to a suspended 12-month jail time and a 1,500 € fine. He is appealing the decision.
Antoine Deltour expressed his deep gratitude to the numerous people and organizations which supported him during the hard…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
European Youth Press (EYP) is recruiting a highly motivated Communications Intern to support the implementation of the organisation’s External Communication strategy and actions.
The post Call for a Communications intern appeared first on European Youth Press.
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European Youth Press
European Youth Press (EYP) is recruiting a highly motivated Communications Intern to support the implementation of the organisation’s External Communication strategy and actions.
The post Call for a Communications volunteer appeared first on European Youth Press.
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European Youth Press
by Annelies VandendriesscheAntoine Deltour, Raphaël Halet and Edouard Perrin, three French nationals, were brought before the Correctional Tribunal of Luxembourg on April 26th 2016 in what is commonly referred to as the LuxLeaks Trial.
At stake are the preservation of professional secrecy on the one hand, and freedom of the press and protection of whistleblowers on the other. The three men are accused of leaking over 30 000 confidential documents revealing the tax deals concluded by large multinational companies with the Luxembourgish fiscal authorities. A verdict will be reached on June 29th.
In October 2010, Deltour copied documents concerning tax rulings from…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
European Youth Press (EYP) is very happy to announce a new close collaboration with the European Centre for Global Interdependence and Solidarity. The centre contributes to the empowerment and active participation of civil society and more specifically youth and women, through educational programmes about global development education and intercultural dialogue. Members of EYP will benefit […]
The post Meet our new partner: The North-South Centre appeared first on European Youth Press.
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European Youth Press
Following a workshop organised by the Media Policy Project about families and ‘screen time’, Mark Griffiths, a Professor of Behavioural Addiction at Nottingham Trent University, explores this concept in the context of his research into online gaming, arguing that amount of time children spend looking at screens is less important than the content and context of screen use. This blog coincides with […]
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Media Policy Project
The European Centre for Press and Media Freedom supports an international campaign which aims to protect non-EU journalists against mass surveillance by the German Federal Intelligence Service (Bundesnachrichtendienst, BND). Coordinated by Reporters without Borders (RSF), different German and international media freedom and human rights organisations jointly speak out to stop the current draft of the law. The draft which is at present discussed by the German Bundestag would allow the wiretapping of foreign journalists and other professionals trusted with secret information (e.g. doctors) when this serves the political interest of the German state. With a joint petition, an amendment…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Ingo Beckendorf The German Johannes Gutenberg-university in Mainz is obliged, to release its contracts with a sponsor to a journalist. That was decided by verdict of the Mainzer administrative court on May 11th 2016 (Az.: 3 K 636/15).
In the case, the chief-reporter of the German public broadcaster “Südwestrundfunk” (SWR), Thomas Leif, brought an action against the university for the release of documents regarding the cooperation-contracts between the pharmaceutical cooperation Boehringer-Ingelheim and the university.
The contract-partner of the university, the society Boehringer Ingelheim, is the biggest researching pharma-cooperation in Germany. The owners donated 100 million Euro to the university in…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
