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The author is project manager at the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom in Leipzig and former senior lecturer at the University of Westminster By Jane Whyatt – From ecpmf. eu web site – It is assumed by many that journalists in Europe are not censored and the existence of a free press is
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
Two online newspapers from Parma resist and make it. Instead Giuliano Serioli leaves the trial, committing not to talk any more about the contested co-generator of S. Ilario The web newspapers Parma Today and Parma Quotidiano will not have to delete the articles in which they reported the stance of the writer and environmentalist Giuliano
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
It is an act of intimidation, the comments of the Order of Journalists and the Union of Journalists. Adelina Lilli Mandara responds to an article of 2011 on Il Messaggero The Director of the Regional Environmental Agency of the Abruzzo Region, Mario Amicone, won a lawsuit for libel against the newspaper Il Messaggero and the
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
by Philllip FilipovskiThe New Year brings a long list of new opportunities to win fame and fortune through journalism, investigations, or even social media. Many of the top prizes have deadlines in January and February. Here are some highlights, and there are many more at the website of our partner organisation www.journalismfund.eu
The Media Foundation of the Sparkasse Leipzig honours persons and institutions from all over the world who dedicate themselves to ensuring and developing the freedom of the press by demonstrating a willingness to take risks, strong personal commitment, persistence, courage and democratic conviction with its 30,000…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
New law means journalists report direct to government
Interview by Jane Whyatt, research by Christian SchultA new law signed on 7th January by Polish President Andrzej Duda puts the Treasury Minister in charge of appointing the governing bodies of public service broadcasters TVP and Radio Poland.
KOD Demonstration in Warsaw of the Committee for the Defence of Democracy (photo: flickr/Grzegorz Żukowski)
And according to the Chairman of the National Broadcasting Council of Poland Jan Dworak, it turns the clock back to the 1980s. In those days Dworak was editor-in-chief of Glos Wolny. He played a big part in Lech Walesa’s Solidarity movement,…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Reported by Ossigeno | Raffaella Della Morte
There have been 521 acts of intimidation in 2015 in Italy, reported by Ossigeno. For some journalists a police protection scheme has been arranged. Th ere have been threats, lawsuits, discrimination and a violation of professional secrecy
Ossigeno's Federica Delogu interviews Fabio Amendolara, threatened journalist of Libero Quotidiano. (photo: Jane Whyatt)
This monthly review of acts of intimidation in Italy is produced by Ossigeno per l’Informazione for the European Centrr for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) with the support of the European Union.
In 2015 521 Italian journalists and bloggers were victims of intimidation, threats and…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Threatened Francesco Mobilio (Quotidiano del Sud), Pietro Comito (LaC) and lawyer Marco Talarico. Investigations on the demolition of an abandoned building VIBO VALENTIA, December 26 – An envelope with an intimidating sentence, a bullet and the title of an article from the daily Quotidiano del Sud. It is the message received on Christmas Eve by
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
There is no sufficient evidence, the trial judge decided in Catania, after an in-depth investigation. Motivations are expectedThe Judge for the Preliminary Hearing of Catania, Gaetana Bernabo Distefano has decided that there are no conditions to proceed to trial against the journalist Mario Ciancio Sanfilippo, 83 years old, editor and publisher of the newspaper La
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
Marco Bova had been questioned as a person of interest for an article in which he recounted details of the investigation on a former Senator In late October 2015, the prosecutor of Trapani has placed under investigation the journalist Marco Bova for refusing to disclose the source of some information contained in the article “Sicilia,
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
The Prosecutor of Rome is investigating. Singled out journalists, writers, teachers, entrepreneurs. Jewish Communities, Order of Journalists and UsigRai protest The Prosecutor in Rome has opened an investigation against unknown persons for threats and defamation, with the aggravating circumstance of racial hatred, following an initiative on 17 December 2015 that recalls the blacklists from the
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
