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He was accused of defamation for having called Mariano Agate “a piece of shit.” Satisfaction in the world of journalism and politics In a judgment by the Court of Trapani, pronounced on June 7, 2016, the journalist Rino Giacalone, accused of having apostrophized the boss Mariano Agate as “a piece of shit”, was acquitted of
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Alessandra Buccini was documenting the escape from a refugee hotspot in Taranto of a group of minors. At the train station the reporter and the operator who was with her were assaulted by a man, allegedly responsible for trafficking in children, which procured the train tickets for the children and talked to the train manager
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Allusive phrases, but Enza dell’Acqua recognizes herself and accuses the commissioner who wrote on Facebook: “W La Vacca” (Go Cow). The mayor is thinking of a counter-complaint On 16 May 2016, the correspondent of the Quotidiano del Sud, Enza Dell’Acqua, pressed charges against the mayor, Francesco Pagano, at the Carabinieri station of Nicotera and the
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
The president of the Lombardy Region Roberto Maroni has warned RAI and La7: if you host the journalist Marco Lillo, deputy chief editor of Il Fatto Quotidiano, for the promotion of his book “Il Potere dei Segreti” (The Power of Secrets), you’ll be sued for damages, Maroni hinted. The RAI legal department has advised the
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
by Michelle TrimbornHow is the refugee issue covered by media all over Europe? Which problems do journalists face when trying to report on the refugee movement? And which role do the European media play for the refugees themselves? Those and other questions were discussed on 9 June at the Press Club Brussels, where the ECPMF and its partners were inviting journalists and politicians to take part in a public debate on “The truth about refugees – crisis, cover-up and the impact on media freedom”.
Jane Whyatt (right) explaining the situation for journalists in Eastern Germany…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Following a special workshop convened by the Media Policy Project on ‘Automation, Prediction and Digital Inequalities’, Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Associate Professor at the School of Computing, University of Utah, here outlines the case for interrogating the inner workings of algorithms. A summary of the workshop will be available on this website shortly. The algorithm is out of the box. Decision-by-algorithm is no […]
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Media Policy Project
How should systems that were originally set up to deal with complaints from members of the public about traditional media respond to the rise in bloggers and citizen journalists? Adeline Hulin, Project Consultant for UNESCO, reflects on the situation across Europe, and argues that existing self-regulatory media councils need to do more to incorporate new forms of journalism. Media councils […]
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Media Policy Project
by Jane WhyattThe controversial new ’big media law’ to permanently change the face of Polish public service broadcasting has been put on hold. Due to take effect from 1st July, the reform has sparked protests and demonstrations on the streets of the Polish capital Warsaw and all other major cities.
Internationally, there has been concern and political pressure to resist the proposed changes, which follow the ’small media law’ passed in November 2015 by the right-wing Law and Justice Party (PiS)-led government. Under this small law, the job of hiring and firing senior TV and radio executives was removed…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Jane WhyattA team of Finnish journalists who published and broadcast details of politicians’ and celebrities’ offshore banking have been warned by the tax authorities that they should reveal their sources. Those sources come from the Panama Papers – with 11.5 million documents it is the biggest leak of confidential information in history.
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Award-winning investigative reporter Minna Knus Galan of the Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE told colleagues at the ECPMF Dataharvest Freedom of Expression debate that she had received requests for information and warnings from the tax office.
Worried that they would search…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
How should systems that were originally set up to deal with complaints from members of the public about traditional media respond to the rise in bloggers and citizen journalists? Adeline Hulin, Project Consultant for UNESCO, reflects on the situation across Europe, and argues that existing self-regulatory media councils need to do more to incorporate new forms of journalism. Media councils […]
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Media Policy Project
