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Jane Whyatt
Journalists and camera crews defended themselves with gas masks as violence flared and teargas flowed in the streets of Leipzig. Then came the smoke from burning barricades. Glass bus shelters were smashed and cobblestones ripped up to use as missiles. The camera crews captured it all.
Three far-right anti-immigration groups marched along different routes, with hundreds of police in riot gear keeping them away from the left-wing antifascists. This Saturday demonstration follows more than one year of smaller Monday night actions in Leipzig, Dresden and other east German cities. They have been marked by a growing number of aggressive…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
This week, internet governance debates will centre on the UN General Assembly, which is due to make a decision about the future of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF); specifically, whether or not to renew its mandate. In advance of that decision, Luca Belli, Researcher at the Center for Technology and Society (CTS) of Fundação Getulio Vargas Law School, Rio de […]
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Media Policy Project
Andrew Murray is Professor of Law at London School of Economics and Political Science and the author of Information Technology Law: The Law and Society. In this post, he examines the Draft Investigatory Powers Bill which was published in November 2015. The United Kingdom Parliament is currently in the pre-legislative scrutiny phase of a new Investigatory Powers Bill, which aims to “consolidate existing […]
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Media Policy Project
Jane Whyatt
Europe's journalists are uniting to support colleagues under threat and in jail in Turkey. Amongst others, the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), representing 320.000 people, the Committee to Protect Journalists(CPJ) and Reporters without Borders (RSF) are challenging the EU to "stop the double standards" with a debate in Brussels, open to all.
Politicians at the European level will face tough criticism from the EFJ/RSF/ CPJ international debate online on Monday 15th December from 1300 local time.
It follows the latest abuses of press freedom in Turkey, a candidate for EU accession and a key player in the Syrian conflict and…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
What is meant by the creative economy and what does it mean for how we understand cultural work? Following a recent public lecture hosted by LSE’s Department of Media and Communications, Professor Philip Schlesinger, Professor in Cultural Policy in the Centre for Cultural Policy Research/CREATe at the University of Glasgow and Visiting Professor in the Department of Media and Communications […]
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Media Policy Project
Do you know the country where the press is free but the journalists are not free? Here in brief the interventions of the conference held in Rome in July 2, 2015 and the statistics of threats and abuses suffered by journalists. In Italy the press is free but hundreds of journalists are under attack with
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
Michelle Trimborn
Journalism needs new ways of funding – not only to survive, but also to stay independent. In a new series of articles, the ECPMF will present projects of journalists and their way to fund independent news making.
Picture by Bizking2u via Wikimedia Commons
In the upcoming months, the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom will take a closer look at the funding of independent reporting in Europe, thus giving already an insight into one of the topics of ECPMF’s European Media Freedom Conference in October 2016.
Independent funding has become more and more problematic during the last years. Not only…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Philipp Filipovski
The ECPMF and its partner Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso (OBC) developed an open platform to collect and give systematic access to information sources on media freedom topics. The "Media Freedom Resource Centre" was recently launched at OBC’s 15th anniversary conference in Rovereto, Italy.
The Resource Centre will collect and systematize current and existing news, reports and legal tools on media freedom.
The Resource Centre (RC) has the aim to gather and sort available online material concerning press freedom in any way. The fundament of this database are currently contributions of 42 main stakeholders, making their material like studies or other…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Eleven intimidations this week in Italy Eleven. So many where in Italy within the week 30 November – 6 December 2015 the victims of violations of freedom of expression through threats and abuses of Law and judicial proceeding which names Ossigeno added to the Public table of the names of victims that includs journalists, bloggers and operators intimidated. Since January
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Ossigeno Informazione » english
Next week, the UN General Assembly will agree a text that reviews the outcomes of the 2003/2005 World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and, to the extent that agreement can be reached, also points forward to the future. In the second in a series of posts on the WSIS+10 process edited by LSE alumna Anri van der Spuy, David […]
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Media Policy Project
