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For the Court of Palmi the “crime does not exist”. The journalist risked up to eight years in prison for articles on the dissolution of a town council because of the Mafia Acquitted because the crime does not exist. This was how the trial against the journalist Agostino Pantanano ended on July 14, 2016, in
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
The indictment for libel of the journalist Alessandro Sallusti, editor of Il Giornale, and of columnist Vittorio Sgarbi, author of an article published on December 6, 2012, was almost certain. In Sassari, the deputy prosecutor Giovanni Porcheddu had questioned them and asked the Judge to send both to trial. But the former prosecutor of Turin,
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Julian McDougall, Professor in Media and Education at Bournemouth University, reports for the Media Policy Project on recent developments in the field of media and information literacy which was discussed recently in Riga at the second European Media and Information Literacy Forum. In 2014, I reported from Paris for this blog on the inaugural forum of the Global Alliance for […]
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Media Policy Project
Joseph Turow, Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication, explores the increasingly important role of data collection and the quantification of the individual in one of our favourite activities – shopping. This post follows a special workshop convened by the Media Policy Project on ‘Automation, Prediction and Digital Inequalities’, a summary of which will be available on this website shortly. One of […]
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Media Policy Project
Emanuele Zanini of L’Arena was not allowed to enter the auditorium, where the presentation of the summer program was taking place. Order of Veneto protests Stefano Nicotra, mayor of Torri del Benaco (in the province of Verona), prevented the journalist Emanuele Zanini, collaborator of the newspaper L’Arena di Verona, access to a public meeting convened
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
The judge ruled that Ersilio Mattioni and Lucrezia Cantarello of Libera Stampa Altomilanese did not slander the blogger of the Northern League Ilaria Preti The magistrate of the Court of Biella has sent to the archives a libel lawsuit filed by the Northern League bloggers Ilaria Preti against the journalist Ersilio Mattioni and Lucrezia Cantarello
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
In June 2016, the US Supreme Court upheld net neutrality rules in the US, in a victory for public interest and grassroots movements against corporate interests. Victor Pickard, Associate Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication, examines June’s historic ruling and asks whether net neutrality is now threatened by corporate capture. A major policy event during my stint as a congressional […]
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Media Policy Project
OSCE media freedom representative Dunja Mijatović said she was deeply saddened upon learning of the death of photojournalist Mustafa Cambaz in Turkey, and worried about the state of media freedom in the country.
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
by Jane WhyattTracing the transnational journey of a gram of heroin from the field where the poppy grows to the end-user in an European capital is a difficult and dangerous task. It makes a great story. And it shows the power of collaborative journalism – even on a tiny budget.
Hostwriter.org is the website that brings together writers and reporters across the world. (Screenshot: hostwriter.org)
Thanks to www.hostwriter.org, it became a reality for Jim Huylebroek and his team, and reached a worldwide audience through Vice News
http://www.vice.com/read/from-afghan-poppy-fields-to-the-english-needle-the-heroin-trail
Hostwriter.org is the website that brings together writers and reporters across…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Tobias Raab On May 17th 2016, the Regional Court (Landgericht, LG) Hamburg decided, German TV host Jan Böhmermann is not allowed to repeat his poem called “Schmähkritik” (German for “abusive criticism”), which he recited in his TV show “Neo Magazin Royale” (Case no.: 324 O 255/16). The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan not only filed a complaint with the public’s prosecution office, but he also sought an interim injunction under civil law to enjoin Böhmermann from repeating “Schmähkritik”.
Jan Böhmermann (Photo: Jonas Rogowski, Jan Böhmermann in Rostock 2014 05, CC BY-SA 3.0 )
In an episode…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
