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The European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) is proud to announce its first competition for young writers
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
The EU Award for Investigative Journalism has been granted so far in Albania, Kosovo, Montenegro and Serbia, acknowledging investigations on corruption and social exclusion
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
Interview with Valery Ivanov, Professor and President oft he Academy of Ukrainian PressECPMF: In your evaluations of Ukrainian journalism in the war you use the term “loyalty journalism”, which you portray as main problem of the current journalism. What is this form of journalism and why does it exist?
Valery Ivanov, President of the Academy of Ukrainian Press, Ukraine
Valery Ivanov: Loyalty journalism has many supporters. Its supporters think that they do not have a right to criticise their country and government during war or allow publications which can weaken the fighting spirit. In contrast to such a propagandistic direction, a…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Jane WhyattTwo years after Ukraine’s Revolution of Destiny, journalists in the emerging public service broadcasting networks have published details of President Poroshenko’s offshore bank accounts. It marks a media freedom milestone, according to Sumy regional TV chief Mikola Chernotytskyi.
Dnipro, Ukraine (Photo:Hoodrat, Dnipropetrowsk, Montage ECPMF, CC BY-SA 3.0 )
He was speaking to ECPMF at the CIRCOM conference of Europe’s regional broadcasters in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, where he gave a progress report on his country’s media transformation. Ukraine is slowly switching from state-run broadcasting to a system based on the western European model, with a Supervisory Board to act as a…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
To challenge the articles by the journalist Luisa Stifani was Soget, tax collection company. For the magistrate of L’Aquila, right to report was respected On April 14, 2016 the Judge for the Preliminary Investigation of the court of L’Aquila has sent to the archives a defamation lawsuit against the journalist Luisa Stifani, chief editor of
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
The victim of the theft had claimed damages after the publishing of an article in which his details were given. The Judge rejects the plea On May 10, 2016 the judge of the First Civil Chamber of the Court of Santa Maria Capua Vetere (in the province of Caserta) rejected the claim for damages for
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
The recent attack against Petar Panjkota, reporter with RTL Croatia television, in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, is unacceptable and must be fully investigated, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović said yesterday
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
by Sofie Luise Burger On 15 March 2016, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) declared an application of the German newspaper Handelsblatt inadmissible (Application no. 52205/11). The paper had been claiming a violation of art. 10 European Convention for Human Rights (ECHR) for having been forbidden to publish a photomontage.
ECtHR: Prohibition to publish a photomontage does not violate the right to freedom of exprssion
In their edition of September 2000, the paper had published an article about the CEO of a German telecom company, in which the CEO was critisised for his management style and the following consequences for…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Sofie Luise Burger The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) decided on 22 March 2016 (application no. 48718/11) that the conviction of a journalist for publishing unauthorized recordings of a criminal trial violates art. 10 European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
The applicant is a crime reporter for a Portuguese TV-channel. In November 2005, the channel had aired a segment on a criminal conviction of an 18-year-old for aggravated theft of a mobile phone. In her report, the journalist defended the innocence of the adolescent and claimed the verdict was an error of justice. The report included shots of…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Bart Cammaerts of LSE’s Department of Media and Communications reflects on the recent announcement by the BBC that its recipe website would be closed. While the announcement of the BBC to mothball the BBC Food site seems at first to be a somewhat trivial decision, it proved to be highly controversial and in the mean time the BBC backtracked in […]
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Media Policy Project
