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Following the recent referendum on whether or not the United Kingdom should remain part of the European Union, Founding Director of the LSE Media Policy Project, Damian Tambini, reflects on the role of new and traditional media in the Brexit debate. A predictable ‘blame the media’ theme has surfaced following the Brexit vote. This has taken two forms that seem […]
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Media Policy Project
David Souter, Visiting Senior Fellow in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE, looks at human rights and how they have been affected by ICTs and the Internet. We talk a lot about ICTs and human rights. Adherence to human rights agreements is entrenched in the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) outcome documents and was reiterated in […]
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Media Policy Project
Wolfgang Schulz, Professor of Media Law and Public Law at the University of Hamburg, and Thorsten Grothe, Partner at Grothe Medienberatung, investigate how recent national and EU court rulings and diverging interpretations of the ‘country of origin’ principle may impact on the European Commission’s plans for the Digital Single Market. “Without the country of origin principle there is no single market.” The […]
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Media Policy Project
The case of Can Dündar, journalist and chief editor of Turkish newspaper Cuhmuriyet, became internationally known after he was sentenced to five years in prison for revelation of state secret
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
On June 24 hundreds walked in Polistena (Reggio Calabria) and then in Gioiosa Jonica. In 2016, there have been 180 mayors “under fire”: the same number of acts of intimidation against journalists In the first one hundred and fifty days of 2016, in Italy, mayors, councilors and other local administrators have been the victims of
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
The journalist Antonio Passanese was pushed and verbally assaulted. Staff committee of Corriere Fiorentino, Assostampa and the Group of Tuscan Reporters intervened Gianni Gianassi, the former mayor of Sesto Fiorentino (in the province of Florence), has prevented Antonio Passanese, journalist of the Corriere Fiorentino, to tell the result of the municipal ballot, attacking him and
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
The journalist was reported three years ago also by the coordinator of a public investment plan that had spent 62 million euro in a questionable way The judge for the preliminary investigations of the Court of Lecce, Cinzia Vergine, on May 12, 2016 ordered that the proceedings for aggravated defamation through the press charged against
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
With the country voting 52% to 48% in favour of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union, John Enser, Partner at Olswang, says that we face a period of unprecedented commercial and legal uncertainty. In this blogpost, he examines some of the key potential outcomes of that result for media businesses operating in or from the UK. Practicalities The vote […]
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Media Policy Project
He had asked for 1.8 million euro; he will have to refund 17,000 euro. In 2009 he sued Concita De Gregorio for a satirical commentary on the women appointed Minister Seven years after the case, on 20 May 2016, the Court of Appeal of Rome sentenced Silvio Berlusconi to reimburse the legal costs incurred by
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Following a court order, after five years, one thousand euro must be paid to Pierluigi Grimaldi and Francesco Currieri so as to extinguish the offense of threats On June 1, 2016, the Justice of the Peace of the Tivoli Court ruled that Augusto Cristofari, president of the Palestrina Football, will have to compensate with 1,000
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
