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Here you can do anything if you can find an agreement, he wrote. The mayor and councilors have instructed a lawyer to proceed against him. One thousand signatures of solidarity on change.org On 17 May 2016, the City Council of Lecce (in the Apulia region), through a resolution, gave mandate to a lawyer to file
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
Francesco Mandolini had criticized the inefficiencies related to the Emergency Room of Chiaravalle. The town council of Monte San Vito believed to have been defamed On May 19, 2016, Sabrina Sartini, mayor of Monte San Vito (in the province of Ancona) announced on Facebook that the City Council headed by herself has decided to
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
Two journalists, assisted by Ossigeno-MLDI, are accused of defamation for facts that haven’t been denied. Former prosecutor of Grosseto asks 430 thousand euro The libel case before the Civil Court of Rome promoted in 2012 by the judge, now retired, Francesco Verusio against the journalists of the monthly “La Voce delle Voci”, Andrea Cinquegrani and
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
Natali Helberger and Damian Trilling, both of the University of Amsterdam and the Institute for Information Law (IViR), write that whilst Facebook’s use of human editors may bring comfort to some, there are wider issues to do with editorial responsibility that need to be addressed. It’s out. Facebook is not some magic black box news machine. It’s using human editors. […]
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Media Policy Project
The media sector in Macedonia is increasingly becoming a battlefield in the struggle between government and the opposition
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
New rule in the Senate. They may be sentenced to nine years for offending the reputation of a politician or a judge The Justice Commission of the Senate unanimously approved a rule which provides for imprisonment of up to nine years for the journalist who defames through the press a politician or a judge. Those
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
This was said during a session of the City Council. On Il Mattino, Pino Neri had written that the institution is under review for possible Camorra infiltrations On May 13, 2016 the mayor of Pomigliano D’Arco, Raffaele Russo, publicly announced – during a meeting of the City Council – of having denounced the journalist Pino
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
by Jane WhyattCampaigners for Britain to remain in the EU at the upcoming referendum are citing press and media freedom as an important factor.
Posters attacking the multi-national media owner Rupert Murdoch have appeared, claiming “Rupert Murdoch can buy the British government. But not a union of 28 countries”.
EU Campaign Between Bridges – Wolfgang Tillmans
This refers to the widely-held belief that popular newspapers owned by Murdoch’s News UK company can swing enough votes to influence the outcome of an election or referendum. The posters imply that Murdoch uses the power of his national newspapers (Sun, Times and Sunday Times)…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
The politician apologized to Roberta Sciamanna, so as to avoid a legal action. The journalist published an article on Inliberauscita ahead of the vote on 5 June On May 19, 2016 Mario Marcellini, a candidate in the municipal elections for the coming June 5 in Nettuno (in the province of Rome), has sent a warning
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
Investigative website Bivol.bg was stripped of the most prestigious Bulgarian investigative journalism prize awarded by the Radostina Konstantinova Foundation after its managing board decided to overrule the choice of the jury
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
