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by Jane WhyattBritain’s media are a battleground after the fatal shooting of Labour MP Jo Cox last week. An anti-immigration fanatic is accused of shooting and stabbing her to death. The murder darkened the mood of the referendum campaign. Pro- and anti-EU media accuse each other of lies, propaganda and making political capital out of personal tragedy.
Forty-one-year-old Jo Cox MP was shot and stabbed on the steps of the library where she had been meeting constituents at a weekly surgery. The man charged with her murder has appeared in court. Asked to confirm his name, he answered: “Death to…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Sara Mariani was in Tor Bella Monaca for a report following 29 arrests in a drug bust. Rosy Bindi: its a sign of crime’s pervasive control The journalist Sara Mariani, correspondent for the RAI 3 TV show Agorà, has been threatened on June 15, 2016 – on live television – while attempting to complete a
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
OSCE Representative appalled by imprisonment of two journalists and a human rights activist in Turkey, urges their release
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
by Katrin Welke On 18 March 2016, the German Press Council, a Journalists Union has announced changes to the Press Code, a tool for voluntary self-regulation of the German Press. The problem of applicability and implementation of the German Press Code for online publications and thereto related user comments was the issue of discussions for a long time. Now, a first solution regarding the complaints procedure about such publications and user comments has been found.
The public reprimand is the sharpest sanction that the Press Council can award. It is considered as fair reporting to publish such reprimands according to…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Michelle TrimbornThe European Centre for Press and Media Freedom strongly condemns the arrests of journalists and human rights defenders in Turkey today, 20 June.Ahmet Nesin (author and journalist), Şebnem Korur Fincancı (President of the Turkey Human Rights Foundation TİHV and Erol Önderoğlu (journalist and media freedom activist) have been taken in pre-trial detention on the grounds of terror propaganda.
Erol Önderoğlu, journalist and media freedom activist from Turkey (Photo: privat)
The three are currently investigated as they served as temporary Editors-in-Chief for the Kurdish newspaper Özgür Gündem, which – according to the Turkish legal authorities…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Blocked the increase of the penalty from six to nine years in prison. But the danger has not yet ceased The bad news on the health status of press freedom in Italy, as we explain elsewhere, are the specialty of this report. In Italy these news are many, are important, but many of them can
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english – Ossigeno Informazione
Blocked the increase of the penalty from six to nine years in prison. But the danger has not yet ceased The bad news on the health status of press freedom in Italy, as we explain elsewhere, are the specialty of this report. In Italy these news are many, are important, but many of them can
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
TİHV President Fincancı, RSF Turkey Representative and bianet rapporteur Önderoğlu and journalist author Nesin have been arrested on charge of "terror propaganda" for joining Özgür Gündem daily's Editor-in-Chief on Watch campaign
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
David Souter, Visiting Senior Fellow in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE, looks at the Internet governance arrangement known as “enhanced cooperation”. This post builds on an earlier piece that he wrote for the Media Policy Project based on his experience as an independent expert in ICT and Internet policy. Last December the UN General Assembly agreed to set up the […]
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Media Policy Project
On January 7, 2015, Andrej Duda, the current Polish president and key member of Poland’s right wing ‘The Law and Justice Party’ (PiS), approved a media bill that has sparked substantial controversy in his country.
The post The Polish media law controversy: national protests and European discontent appeared first on European Youth Press.
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European Youth Press
