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This week, various leaders from governments and major organisations (as well as the odd film star or two) descended on Davos for the World Economic Forum’s annual gathering. With the theme for this year’s meeting ‘Mastering the Fourth Industrial Revolution’, LSE alumna Anri van der Spuy argues that policy challenges related to digital development(s) should focus on promoting meaningful access […]
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Media Policy Project
Alison Powell, Assistant Professor at LSE, investigates how data and algorithms effect our daily lives, from negotiating public transport and booking restaurants, to the more serious issues of surveillance and privacy. She argues that there is a greater need for algorithmic accountability in order for us to understand its impact, both positive and negative, on not only our day-to-day lives, but […]
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Media Policy Project
by Jane Whyatt
Britain’s newspapers, still policing themselves even after the phone hacking scandal and Leveson inquiry, now have an alternative regulator.
IMPRESS, a crowd-funded regulation system, has announced the first titles that will be governed by its regime. They include the left-liberal New Internationalist magazine and a handful of hyperlocal news websites.
Professor Steven Barnett.
Welcoming the new initiative, Steve Barnett of the Hacked Off campaign said:
It’s baby steps at the moment. But it is a very important new development.
In 2011 it was revealed that journalists on the News of the World, Sun and Daily Mirror were hacking into voicemails,…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
We did not want to offend, the sued say following statements on the Corriere di Bologna. The magistrates took note that they did not have such an intention The substitute prosecutors of Bologna Antonella Scandellari and Antonello Gustapane withdrew the complaints for libel against Claudio Mazzanti and Cathy La Torre, group leaders of the Democratic
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
By Jane Whyatt
With the Netherlands in the driving seat of the European Union for the next six months, Dutch National Public Broadcasting Ombudsman Margo Smit is optimistic.
"I’m ambitious," she says. "And I hope they will be ambitious too."
Ms Smit, an experienced TV journalist and journalism professor who sits on the ECPMF Board, explains in an interview with ECPMF that the Dutch way of doing things is pragmatic, focussing on results.
Our government has already toned down the high expectations. The most pressing issue that they will face in the next five months is the refugee crisis. If they can solve…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Ahead of a special workshop on ‘Algorithmic Power and Accountability in Black Box Platforms’, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, Acting Director of the LSE Media Policy Project, outlines some of the challenges society faces when considering how to deal with systems which are increasingly driven by data, and calls for more conversations surrounding regulatory issues. With the influx of data-driven systems in everyday life, […]
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Media Policy Project
Luigi De Magistris had sued the journalists Claudio Pappaianni and Gianluca di Feo for the investigation into the health of waters, realized with the data from the US Navy On January 13, 2016, the magistrate of the Court of Velletri sent to the archives the defamation lawsuit filed against the L’Espresso in 2013 by the
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
Mario Giordano and the journalist Giancarlo Padovan were sued in 2014 by the referee Nicola Rizzoli following some opinions expressed about him on TV BOLOGNA, JANUARY 12th – The Prosecutor of Bologna has asked for the trial of the chief editor of the TG4, Mario Giordano, and the journalist Giancarlo Padovan, accusing them of defaming,
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
The report of the Leveson Inquiry in November 2012 following the phone hacking scandal was a critical moment in the history of the UK press, and the question of how precisely to design an effective, independent system of self-regulation is still being fought over to this day. Walter Merricks, Chair of Impress, which bills itself as “the first truly independent […]
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Media Policy Project
A law dictates it although La7 did not observ it by delivering unedited footage and creating an alarming precedent. With what consequences? The seizure of the original footage of an investigation aired by Piazzapulita, a TV show, and broadcast by the television network La7, can allow prosecutors in Rome, who’ve ordered it, to identify the
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
