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Sofia Verza, PhD candidate at the University of Perugia
Following the assassination of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, a group of European MEPs is calling on the EU Commission to promote an anti-SLAPP EU directive, to counter the attempts at silencing investigative journalism. This is a backgrounder on the so-called SLAPP suits.
Dozens of SLAPP suits were filed against Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia - also after her assassination on 16 October 2017 some are still pending (Jon Borg/ DPA)
The term SLAPP - Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation - was coined by Professors George W. Pring and Penelope Canan in their…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Damian Tambini welcomes the Select Committee on Digital, Culture Media and Sport’s interim report on “fake news”, but argues that the issues it has uncovered cannot be effectively dealt with by a Parliamentary Committee. Unfortunately the Fake News report was leaked by Dominic Cummings in a cynical attempt to personalise, delegitimise, and thus derail an important policy discussion. What Cummings […]
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Media Policy Project
Sabrina Wilkinson, PhD researcher at Goldsmiths, University of London, researches the politics of internet regulation in Canada. In this blog, she outlines the key arguments for a reform to Canada’s Access to Information Act and highlights where Canada lags in comparison to its international counterparts. This August, the Government of Canada will kick off its fourth plan on open government. The introduction of this strategy will […]
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Media Policy Project
By Emil Weber
On 19 July 2018 the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) backed an opposition politician from the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (now known as Northern Macedonia) for publicly raising questions over property deals and potential involvement in the sales of state property by the head of the Security and Counter Intelligence Agency.
Jani Makraduli (picture: Arno Mikkor (EU2017EE), Informal meeting of environment ministers. Arrivals Jani Makraduli (35103595893), CC BY 2.0)
The head of the agency was also a senior politician in the ruling party at the same time.
The judgement is highly important from the perspective of media as…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
By Emil Weber
On 19 July 2018 the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) backed an opposition politician from the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (now known as Northern Macedonia) for publicly raising questions over property deals and potential involvement in the sales of state property by the head of the Security and Counter Intelligence Agency.
Jani Makraduli (picture: Arno Mikkor (EU2017EE), Informal meeting of environment ministers. Arrivals Jani Makraduli (35103595893), CC BY 2.0)
The head of the agency was also a senior politician in the ruling party at the same time.
The judgement is highly important from the perspective of media as…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
By Emil Weber
On 19 July 2018 the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) backed an opposition politician from the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (now known as Northern Macedonia) for publicly raising questions over property deals and potential involvement in the sales of state property by the head of the Security and Counter Intelligence Agency.
Jani Makraduli (picture: Arno Mikkor (EU2017EE), Informal meeting of environment ministers. Arrivals Jani Makraduli (35103595893), CC BY 2.0)
The head of the agency was also a senior politician in the ruling party at the same time.
The judgement is highly important from the perspective of media as…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
How has journalism evolved in the state that does not exist since the 1990s? A meeting with Nikolaj Kuzmin, journalist and activist of ILC Apriori in Tiraspol, a space for legal assistance and promotion of human rights
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
How has journalism evolved in the state that does not exist since the 1990s? A meeting with Nikolaj Kuzmin, journalist and activist of ILC Apriori in Tiraspol, a space for legal assistance and promotion of human rights
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
This article by Marc Fleurbaey, Professor in Economics and Humanistic Studies, Princeton University was originally published on The Conversation and Inforrm and is reposted here with thanks. In a November 2016 article, Nick Couldry and Clemencia Rodriguez (from the International Panel on Social Progress) stated that “media infrastructure is a common good whose governance and design should be much more open to democratic engagement than currently.” Does the population […]
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Media Policy Project
By Emil Weber
Maltese anti-corruption activist, Tina Urso, feels she has been targeted by a government- backed name-and-shame online campaign in recent months. She, her lawyer and media and human rights activists criticise the authorities responsible for investigating the threats.
Tina Urso (photo: private)
Urso is a member of the voluntary, grassroots group Il-Kenniesa active in raising anti-corruption awareness. "We started with Il-Kenniesa in June 2017 when the Government did not remove the ministers who were mentioned for wrongdoing in the 'Panama papers',” Urso told the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF).
Following a snap election in May 2017, the Labour…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
