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Thousands of citizens protested in Novi Sad for the dismissal of some managing editors of Radio Television Vojvodina, one of the last media that resisted government control
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
Following a special workshop convened by the Media Policy Project on ‘Automation, Prediction and Digital Inequalities’, Lina Dencik, Lecturer in the School of Media, Journalism and Cultural Studies at the University of Cardiff, reflects on some of the implications of using large data-sets for policing purposes. A summary of the workshop will be available on this website shortly. The collection and […]
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Media Policy Project
by Jane WhyatBoxsets, Netflix, video on demand – all Europe’s many international TV and video services will soon be governed by a new Audio Visual Directive. Converging technologies mean that some newspapers that publish online videos (for example, Bild, the Guardian) will also be regarded as ’TV-like’ and face a new regulatory regime.
Insights into the new Directive were presented at the CIRCOM European broadcasters conference in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, by Laura Sboarina of Cullen International. You can watch her presentation here.
The main impact of the new Directive will be to establish clear simple rules on the Country of Origin (COO)…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
What is the ‘Internet of Things’ and what are some of the challenges it poses? Claire Milne, Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE’s Department of Media and Communications, explores the issue, arguing that the views of citizens and consumers need to be placed at the heart of the debate. Much excitement is being generated around the so-called Internet of Things […]
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Media Policy Project
From Friday 3 to Sunday 5 June, in Mechelen, the most relevant event on data Journalism in Europe. Several sessions on freedom of expression are co-promoted by ECPMF
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
The second EU Investigate Journalism Awards in the Western Balkans and Turkey have been announced in Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Turkey
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
In advance of the launch of a new report about the funding of public service media content for children, Professor Jeanette Steemers from the University of Westminster provides a view on the recent proposals for the future of children’s TV content as set out in the Government White Paper on the BBC. The report, co-authored by Steemers and Feryal Awan, […]
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Media Policy Project
This article is published on the web site of the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom For four years, the Italian Parliament promised to abolish prison sentences for defamation offences – but it did not so. Since 2012, the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate have been playing ping pong with a bill that
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
After the publication of a preliminary list of journalists who had been in Donbass, two new lists have appeared online
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
by Alberto Spampinato, Director of Ossigeno per l'Informazione, ItalyFor four years, the Italian Parliament promised to abolish prison sentences for defamation offences – but it did not so. Since 2012, the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate have been playing ping pong with a bill that aims to keep this promise. But neither side has approved it yet and there was no progress made for more than a year. Instead, during the coming days, the Senate is expected to consent to a bill to increase the maximum penalty for defamation from six to nine years in prison - supporting…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
