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By Jane Whyatt
Two TV crews have been assaulted as they tried to interview family members of a suicide bomber involved in the Paris attacks on December 13th 2015... which left 39 people dead.
The crews, from RTL-TV1 and France 3, were reporting at the home address in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, Belgium, of Chakib Akrouh. He has been identified as one of three terrorists who opened fire on bars and restaurants in the French capital before blowing himself up.
RTL has published footage of the assault on its crew. Watch here (in French):
And the network has screened a debate with leading journalists discussing…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Krzysztof Kowalczyk
After the political transformation which took place in Poland in 1989, actions were undertaken so as to create independent, pluralistic public media. Work on the Broadcasting Act went on for quite a long time, as it was only on 29 December 1992 that the act was finally passed, and on 1 March 1993 that it entered into force.
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The Act dissolved the existing Committee for Radio and Television, which was subject to the party structures, forming in its place the joint stock company "Polish Television", the joint stock company "Polish Radio" and the regional radio…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Katharina Mikulčak
It is Germany's turn to chair the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in 2016 and its mandate includes press and media freedom. Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier made a strong speech in Berlin.
Frank Walter Steinmeier. Picture by Armin Kübelbeck via Wikimedia commons.
He stressed freedom of expression is a core value of democracy, and even more important nowadays in the background of terrorism.
Germany just lost more than 10 citizens who were killed in a bomb attack in Istanbul, Turkey, this week. Steinmeier took the chance to combine his speech on the OSCE chairmanship with this sad…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
As we draw closer to the time when the IANA stewardship functions transition away from US oversight to global stakeholders, LSE alumna and Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) NextGen participant Sana Ali talks to Konstantinos Komaitis, Senior Policy Adviser at the Internet Society (ISOC), about the implications of the transition for both ICANN and the internet community […]
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Media Policy Project
Following a nine-month investigation, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has now given unconditional approval to BT’s acquisition of EE. Tom Evens, Senior Researcher at the University of Ghent and Visiting Fellow at LSE, analyses the merger and asks what impact it will have on the UK telecoms market, particularly in terms of competition and consumer choice. The £12.5 […]
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Media Policy Project
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) held the last of its three annual open meetings in Dublin in October 2015. A report by Ayden Férdeline of that meeting has been published on the Media Policy Project’s blog here. LSE alumna and NextGen@ICANN participant Sana Ali also attended the meeting, and spoke to Niels ten Oever from Article […]
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Media Policy Project
The EYE Report. 100 Ideas for tomorrow's Europe. Important notice: We do not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process. If you have any questions concerning persons or companies claiming to be recruiting on behalf of the EYE and requesting the payment of a fee, please contact eye-report@ep.europa.eu. Post 1 Graphic Designer […]
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European Youth Press
The EYE Report. 100 Ideas for tomorrow's Europe. Important notice: We do not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process. If you have any questions concerning persons or companies claiming to be recruiting on behalf of the EYE and requesting the payment of a fee, please contact eye-report@ep.europa.eu. Posts 5 Specialists 3 […]
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European Youth Press
The EYE Report. 100 Ideas for tomorrow's Europe. Important notice: We do not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process. If you have any questions concerning persons or companies claiming to be recruiting on behalf of the EYE and requesting the payment of a fee, please contact eye-report@ep.europa.eu. Posts 2 Chief Editors […]
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European Youth Press
A legal briefing by Gianna IacinoThe rule of law is the legal principle which states that the law should govern a nation instead of individual government officials with their arbitrary decisions. The rule of law is a prerequisite for the protection of all fundamental values of the European Union, as they are listed in art. 2 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU).
If a Member State breaks an EU law, the TEU provides rules for an infringement procedure against that Member State. This infringement procedure is regulated in art. 7 TEU and it can lead to the suspension of…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
