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On May 19, the National Council has asked the institutions to monitor and punish those responsible. Cited the latest cases in Calabria and Campania The Order of Journalists expressed “indignation and strong concern” over the increasing threats and that occur at the expense of information professionals. The National Council which met in Rome on 17,
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
Ersilio Mattioni has received three acts of intimidation within three months. The latest dates back to the night of 15 and 16 May. The journalist already threatened in 2012 The journalist Ersilio Mattioni, founder and chief editor of the online edition of L’Altomilanese and collaborator of ilfattoquotidiano.it, was the victim of three acts of intimidation
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
In this post, Alison Harcourt, Professor at the University of Exeter and Senior Fellow on the ESRC programme UK in a Changing Europe, reviews the current context and future of audio-visual media services legislation in the EU, and examines the impact that Brexit might have on UK stakeholders in this sector. In light of the replies to the public consultation on […]
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Media Policy Project
by ECPMF Refugee Journalist Ola AljariI have been in Greece for two weeks and this was my second visit in two months. Many things have changed in the meantime. Most of the refugees I met on the first visit were happy and full of hope, in spite of the Greece-Macedonia/ FYROM border being closed and the EU-Turkey deal that was announced a couple of days earlier. They thought that “Europe is the land of freedom and human rights and that it will not let them down”, as some refugees told me.
Water in and around tents after rain by Ghias…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by ECPMF Refugee Journalist Ola AljariI have been in Greece for two weeks and this was my second visit in two months. Many things have changed in the meantime. Most of the refugees I met on the first visit were happy and full of hope, in spite of the Greece-Macedonia/ FYROM border being closed and the EU-Turkey deal that was announced a couple of days earlier. They thought that “Europe is the land of freedom and human rights and that it will not let them down”, as some refugees told me.
Water in and around tents after rain by Ghias…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by ECPMF Refugee Journalist Ola AljariI have been in Greece for two weeks and this was my second visit in two months. Many things have changed in the meantime. Most of the refugees I met on the first visit were happy and full of hope, in spite of the Greece-Macedonia/ FYROM border being closed and the EU-Turkey deal that was announced a couple of days earlier. They thought that “Europe is the land of freedom and human rights and that it will not let them down”, as some refugees told me.
Water in and around tents after rain by Ghias…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Jane Whyatt in Plovdiv, BulgariaA Kurdish comedian has helped Sweden’s SVT to win the Prix CIRCOM 2016 - Europe’s top prize for television journalism – with ‘Absolut Svensk’.
Plamen Agov • studiolemontree.com, Roman Theatre Plovdiv, CC BY-SA 3.0
It is a mini-series that exposes hidden racism – including the presenter’s own prejudice against black people.Soran Ismail moved to Sweden as a toddler with his parents. He supports the Swedish national football team and thinks of himself as ‘absolutely Swedish’. Yet even his friends call him ‘darkie’ and he faces many examples of everyday discrimination.
In the mini-series of…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Kira Kirschbach, translation Michelle TrimbornDubious information during the war undermine trust in Ukrainian media as much as the Russian propaganda.
Ukrainian journalism in the war: Whom can one believe? ( Mstyslav Chernov, A Russia-backed rebel armored fighting vehicles convoy near Donetsk, Eastern Ukraine, May 30, 2015, Assemly ECPMF, CC BY-SA 4.0 )
The Ukraine is undergoing hard times. The Ukrainian government displays corruption, helplessness and the inability to implement reforms. But there are bigger problems, like the ongoing armed conflict in the East of the country. This violent conflict is a serious challenge for press freedom in Ukraine – and…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Interview by Kira Kirschbach, translation Michelle TrimbornOleksandr Chekmyshev is Doctor of Science in Social Communications, Head of the Equal Access Committee, Chief of the monitoring projects at Association "Common Space"
ECPMF: How do you judge the protection of journalistic standards in Ukraine? Is it possible to report balanced and objectively on the war?
Oleksandr Chekmyshev, Doctor of Science in Social Communications
Head of the Equal Access Committee; Chief of the monitoring projects at Association "Common Space" (Photo: private)
Oleksandr Chemyshev: Often journalistic standards are ignored for the sake of patriotism and ideology. Our studies on current journalistic tendencies show problems like biased reporting, incorrect terminology…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Sofie Luise BurgerThe European Court for Human Rights (ECtHR) decided on 17 march 2016 (Application no.16313/10) that the repeated publication of pictures of a famous footballer’s children by the same tabloids over a lengthy period of time does not necessarily violate article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR).
Kahn vs. Germany - Right to privacy not necessarily violated by repeated publication of private pictures
The applicants, born in 1998 and 2003 are the children of a very famous German football player. Between 2004 and 2009, two tabloids owned by the same publisher had repeatedly published several articles…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
