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Media in Croatia, defeated by the economy

What is the state of the Croatian media? And what could the government and the institutions do to improve the situation? We asked Hrvoje Zovko, the new president of the Association of Croatian Journalists (HND)

Source: Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News

Call for applications European Cross-border Grants

Deadline: 14 January 2019   BRUSSELS – There will be four application rounds in 2019. €175,000 will be distributed over 4 application rounds. With the European Cross-Border Grants, Journalismfund.eu will support professional journalists, who have good ideas for cross-border research on European affairs.   €175,000 will be distributed over the 4 application rounds.   With […] The post Call for applications European Cross-border Grants appeared first on European Youth Press.

Source: European Youth Press

Call for applications for Journalist Fellowship in Oxford

Deadline: 11 February 2019   The Reuters Institute, based at the University of Oxford, offers a limited number of Journalist Fellowships each year. The fully-funded Fellowships are aimed at practising journalists from all over the world, to enable them to research a topic of their choice, related to their work and the broader media industry, […] The post Call for applications for Journalist Fellowship in Oxford appeared first on European Youth Press.

Source: European Youth Press

Call for submissions to Kim Wall Memorial Fund

Deadline: 4 January 2019   This year, the Kim Wall Memorial Fund will provide a $5,000 grant to one female reporter whose work embodies the spirit of Kim’s reporting. The grant will fund a female reporter covering subculture, broadly defined, and what Kim liked to call “the undercurrents of rebellion.” Kim wanted more women to […] The post Call for submissions to Kim Wall Memorial Fund appeared first on European Youth Press.

Source: European Youth Press

Call for intern: Design Manager

Deadline: 4 January 2019   European Youth Press (EYP) is recruiting a highly motivated Social Media Manager intern to support the implementation of the organisation’s social media strategy and actions. The selected candidate will be remotely (or based in Berlin or Brussels) contributing to EYP for a period of (at least) three months and is, […] The post Call for intern: Design Manager appeared first on European Youth Press.

Source: European Youth Press

Call for intern: Social Media Manager

Deadline: 4 January 2019   European Youth Press (EYP) is recruiting a highly motivated Social Media Manager intern to support the implementation of the organisation’s social media strategy and actions. The selected candidate will be remotely (or based in Berlin or Brussels) contributing to EYP for a period of (at least) three months and is, […] The post Call for intern: Social Media Manager appeared first on European Youth Press.

Source: European Youth Press

Call for entries for Imagine Europe contest

Deadline: 28th February 2019   Your vision of Europe in 2050!   Imagine Europe is an idea contest inviting everyone (all ages & nationalities) to present their vision of Europe in 2050 in a short written and video-recorded pitch.   The contest is presented by a series of European Partners and has received initial funding […] The post Call for entries for Imagine Europe contest appeared first on European Youth Press.

Source: European Youth Press

Call for applications for international journalism traineeship

Deadline: 11 January 2019   Journalism Traineeship 18 months trainee salary international broadcaster in 30 languages crossmedia: TV, online and radio six months of seminar blocks internships in Berlin and Bonn placement with DW foreign bureau (Washington, Brussels, Moscow) international multimedia projects well-known media trainers “Intense, exhausting, competitive… and totally worth it!”   We are […] The post Call for applications for international journalism traineeship appeared first on European Youth Press.

Source: European Youth Press

Blinkered in Budapest – government friendly media gang up to control media markets

A commentary by Pal Daniel Reyni  It only took a few hours to create the biggest ever media conglomerate in the history of free Hungarian media. On 28th November 2018, most media owners who support the Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party simultaneously gifted (!) all their assets to a newly-formed foundation, led by Gábor Liszkay.   Photo: Pixabay He is the CEO of a pro-goverment media company and a longtime ally of Orbán. The Board of Trustees has three more members, of which one is a former (István Varga) and another is a current Fidesz MP (István Bajkai). Bajkai is…

Source: European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)

Maltese state official verbally abuses human rights advocate at the United Nations

Representatives of the Maltese government failed to save the life of Daphne Caruana Galizia, they are blocking a public inquiry into her assassination and keep intimidating her family. Now they are verbally abusing international civil society representatives. (photo: ECPMF) The undersigned organisations demand an immediate investigation into the verbal abuse of Sarah Clarke, Advocacy Manager of PEN International at the UN Global Compact on Migration, in Marrakesh, Morocco, by Alessandro Mangion, private secretary to Malta’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Promotion, Carmelo Abela. The incident occurred at the high level event to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration…

Source: European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)