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Interview Nessa Childers, MEP by Jane WhyattNessa Childers is an independent Irish Member of European Parliament. With the support of the ECPMF and the European Federation of Journalists, EFJ, she organised the Newsocracy conference in Dublin on 3 June, asking the question “Who owns the news?” Ms Childers has campaigned for years for press freedom, in Ireland and in the European Palriament.
Nessa Childers MEP (Photo: Bengt Oberger, Nessa Childers 02, CC BY-SA 3.0)
Exploring the influence of media owners, delegates got into heated debates. One of Ireland’s main players, Denis O’Brien, is currently involved in a…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Miranda Patrucic, Jane Whyatt and Michelle TrimbornAward-winning investigative journalist Miranda Patrucic is calling on media freedom campaigners to keep up the pressure on the government of Azerbaijan, following the release from jail of her colleague Khadija Ismayilova.
Beyond Khadija- Journalists, Bloggers and Scores of Dissidents Remain in Azerbaijani Jails Following Ismayilova’s Release 2016-06-10 (Screenshot: OCCRP)
Patrucic works closely with Khadija and other colleagues at the OCCRP, the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project. While Khadija was behind bars, Miranda Patrucic worked on the Azeri connections in the Panama Papers offshore banking leak. She flew from Kiev…
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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’, Tal Zarsky, Professor of Law at the University of Haifa, discusses some of the regulatory and policy implications that arise from companies’ use of personal data, with particular reference to wearable technologies. A summary of the workshop will be available on this website shortly. […]
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Media Policy Project
Pasquale Clemente, sued in 2010 by a senator, was sentenced on June 3 in Nola (Naples). Disproportionate sentence, say FNSI and Ossigeno Two years in prison and a 1500 euro fine: this conviction that the Single-Judge of the Criminal Court of Nola (in the province of Naples) handed down on June 3, 2016, to the
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
VIENNA, 9 June 2016 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today welcomed the removal of a provision increasing prison terms for defaming elected officials and judges from a bill being considered by the Italian Senate. “The decision not to increase the maximum prison term is a step in the right direction,”
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
by Sofie Luise BurgerThe German Federal Court of Justice Bundesgerichtshof decided on 16 February 2016 (No. VI ZR 367/15) that reports which are not up to date anymore, but are still kept available in online-archives of newspapers, may violate personality rights. Whether it is valid to keep those reports available has to be decided by thoroughly balancing the personality rights of the affected person with the freedom of press and expression of the newspaper.
ComQuat, BGH - Palais 2, CC BY-SA 3.0
A professional football player who had been the subject of investigations for sexual…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Katrin Welker On 13 March 2016, the German Federal Administrative Court Bundesverwaltungsgericht decided that Members of Parliament have a right to confidentiality regarding their office supply purchases (no. 6 C 65.14).
The Parliamentary Act gives Members of the German Parliament (MP) the option to purchase office supply items for an amount of currently 12.000 € per year (material resources package). In 2009, there were press reports about luxury purchases by German MPs. On 6 December 2009, a journalist requested photocopies of all documents relating to non-cash benefits of the MPs addressed to the Administration of the German Parliament which…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
This monthly review of acts intimidation in Italy is produced by Ossigeno per l’Informazione for the European Center for Press and Media Freedom of Leipzig (ECPMF), with the support of the European Union The bad news on the health status of press freedom in Italy, as we explain elsewhere, are the specialty of this report.
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Ossigeno Informazione » english
This monthly review of acts intimidation in Italy is produced by Ossigeno per l’Informazione for the European Center for Press and Media Freedom of Leipzig (ECPMF), with the support of the European Union The bad news on the health status of press freedom in Italy, as we explain elsewhere, are the specialty of this report.
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
The FNSI has asked to withdraw the proposal to abolish altogether the sentence of imprisonment and to introduce the crime of obstacle to information The approval of the Senate bill that proposes to harshen from 6 to 9 years of imprisonment for the guilty of libel against politicians, judges, and public officials would have a
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
