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The International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) is now accepting applications for its 2016/17 Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship. One outstanding woman journalist will be selected in June 2016 to complete a seven-month program from August 29, 2016 until March 28, 2017.
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European Youth Press
Moment Magazine organizes the Daniel Pearl Investigative Journalism Initiative to encourage reporters to write in-depth stories about deeply ingrained prejudices.
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European Youth Press
The Youth Citizen Entrepreneurship Competition invites again young entrepreneurs (age 15-35) from around the world to submit their innovative ideas and projects with a societal impact, which champions and implements one or more of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
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European Youth Press
by Ana Ribeiro
"No EU member state is today free from risks for media pluralism," says a statement posted on the website of the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom (CMPF), which carried out the MPM2015 report. The ongoing multiple-year study, funded by the European Commission, will have its final phase in 2016.
Five of the 19 countries analysed were classified in the report as being at "high risk" in terms of "Market Plurality". (Source: Media Pluralism Monitor 2015)
The Media Pluralism Monitor 2015 analysed media freedom and pluralism indicators in 19 EU member states: Austria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic,…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Jane Whyatt
The refugee crisis, the conflict in Ukraine, the truth about people who claim state benefits – there is a growing list of topics and themes that readers and viewers distrust. That claim is not only based on a general sense of unease expressed in social media or everyday conversations. It has been proved by researchers at the University of Leipzig, Germany.
Dr. Uwe Krüger (Photo courtesy of interviewee)
And it represents a crisis for press and media freedom. If the audience does not believe in the work of journalists - especially those working in the mainstream media - then…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Jane Whyatt
The refugee crisis, the conflict in Ukraine, the truth about people who claim state benefits – there is a growing list of topics and themes that readers and viewers distrust. That claim is not only based on a general sense of unease expressed in social media or everyday conversations. It has been proved by researchers at the University of Leipzig, Germany.
Dr. Uwe Krüger (Photo courtesy of interviewee)
And it represents a crisis for press and media freedom. If the audience does not believe in the work of journalists - especially those working in the mainstream media - then…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Michelle Trimborn
With his latest move, it seems Turkish President Erdoğan has shot himself in the foot: when German political satire programme "extra 3" criticised his restrictions on media freedom in a video, he summoned the German ambassador – and allegedly asked to stop the publication of the audiovisual material.
Turkish President Erdoğan turned the broadcast of a satirical video of him by a German station into a diplomatic matter; the move backfired. (Photo: Pixabay)
Extra 3, a weekly programme on German public broadcaster NDR, is using its satirical approach to criticise world politics. Usually smiled at by politicians and authorities, the…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Ana Ribeiro
A veteran Portuguese journalist is calling for a multiple-source fund to help prop up daily reporting and publications in his country.
Media scholar calls for press fund to create more print publications and help established ones survive in Portugual. (Photo: Pixabay)
In an opinion piece earlier this month for Lisbon’s daily newspaper Público, José Manuel Nobre-Correia called for a plan to better provide for the “sustainability of existing titles and, in parallel, promote the creation of new titles” in Portugal. He stated that “help for the development of initiatives in terms of written information” (print or digital) could come…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Ana Ribeiro
A veteran Portuguese journalist is calling for a multiple-source fund to help prop up daily reporting and publications in his country.
Media scholar calls for press fund to create more print publications and help established ones survive in Portugual. (Photo: Pixabay)
In an opinion piece earlier this month for Lisbon’s daily newspaper Público, José Manuel Nobre-Correia called for a plan to better provide for the “sustainability of existing titles and, in parallel, promote the creation of new titles” in Portugal. He stated that “help for the development of initiatives in terms of written information” (print or digital) could come…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Smothering the freedom of the press using intense media campaigns in tabloids and the television against individual journalists has now become the sad reality of news in Serbia
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
