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According to the data recently released by the European Commission, the EU member states in Southeastern Europe are among the least digital in the continent
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
by Michelle TrimbornThis year’s “Prize for the Freedom and Future of the Media” is awarded to Can Dündar and Erdem Gül. The award is sponsored by the Sparkasse Leipzig Media Foundation, ECPMF’s lead partner. The ECPMF has supported both laureates for months in their fight for media freedom in Turkey.
The Cumhuriyet-journalists Can Dündar and Erdem Gül have been under threat for years because of their government-critical and independent work. In November 2015, both journalists were arrested and in May 2016 sentenced to 5 years, respectively 5 years and 10 months in prison. They were charged…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Ahead of 20th anniversary of killing , OSCE Representative recalls of investigative journalism’s importance for democracy DUBLIN 23 June 2016 – Ahead of the 20th anniversary of the murder of Irish journalist Veronica Guerin, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today reminded of the importance investigative journalists play for our societies and
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Sparkasse Media Foundation awards 2016 Prize for the Freedom and Future of the Media to Turkish journalists Can Dündar and Erdem Gül Turkish journalists Can Dündar and Erdem Gül will be awarded the 2016 Prize for the Freedom and Future of the Media, sponsored by the Sparkasse Leipzig Media Foundation. “This year’s list of nominees
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
by Kira KirschbachPope Francis has strengthened the rules about reporting child sex abuse. Yet in spite of the new attitude, journalists still cannot get a complete picture of the extent and the causes of abuse in church institutions.
Islandoftrees, 2015-10-07 Petersdom schraeg, CC BY-SA 4.0
In Leipzig, a woman tells the tragic story of her childhood to a circle of listeners. She was abused by her stepfather. She tells of pain and suffering. She tells her story with poems and gestures. Ursula Schieber is intelligent, reticent and very correct. Thanks to the love and understanding of her…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Jonny Shipp, Public Affairs Director at Telefónica S.A. and Visiting Fellow at LSE, explores the initial findings from the recently published Index on Digital Life, and examines which countries are performing well – and those that still have work to do. We live in a time of huge social and economic change, driven by digitalisation. It is vital that this change, and the […]
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Media Policy Project
Three arrested editors-in-chief, Erol Önderoğlu, Şebnem Korur Fincancı, and Ahmet Nesin have sent a message from prison
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
Ofcom may soon regulate the BBC, yet we know it already struggles to treat the public as citizens and not just consumers. Peter Lunt, Professor of Media and Communication at the University of Leicester, and Sonia Livingstone, Professor in the Media Department at the LSE, set out some of the key challenges. The recently-published White Paper, A BBC for the future: […]
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Media Policy Project
For the public prosecutor of Trapani, the journalist Marco Bova may not appeal to professional secrecy because he is not a professional journalist. Solidarity from FNSI and Assostampa Sicily The non-professional journalist Marco Bova was indicted, on June 14, 2016, by the magistrate of the Court of Catania on charges of false information given to
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
To trial for an article of 2011, despite the plaintiff has been condemned in 2014. In the meantime the news outlet has closed: no legal protection for journalists On 12 January 2016 the magistrate Rosa Alba Recupido of the Court of Catania, at the request of the prosecutor Raffaella Agata Vinciguerra, ordered the case to
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
