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The tribute of Ossigeno to the mother of Ilaria, the journalist killed in Mogadishu in 1994 together with Milan Hrovatin – a strong and determined woman Luciana Riccardi, the extraordinary mother of Ilaria Alpi passed away on Tuesday 12th June 2018 without having obtained justice and truth about the death of her daughter; without knowing
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
The gesture by the former minister Mario Landolfi was a sign of reconciliation after the unpleasant incident on April 19th. It was the reporter himself from La7 to suggest the donation. The former minister Mario Landolfi donated 5,000 euro to FNSI in support of threatened journalists. With this gesture the politician wanted to atone for
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
The final Court of Appeal has definitively established this, rejecting the appeal of the car company (ordered to pay the legal expenses) against the journalist being found innocent. The journalist Corrado Formigli and Rai will not have to compensate Fiat with five million euro as a previous court had established. The legal matter is definitively
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
By Emil Weber
The Government of Kosovo approved advanced legislation to enhance the protection of whistleblowers on June 12, 2018. The draft law has yet to be passed by the parliament.
Meeting of Kosovo Government on June 5th, 2018 (photo: kryeministri-ks.net)
Kosovo is consistently ranked among the most corrupt countries in the Western Balkans by the Freedom House.
“Since Kosovo has high corruption indicators, it is logical to establish strong legal standards of whistleblowing protection which would help fight corruption”, said Flutura Kusari, media lawyer at the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF). “The draft law on whistleblowers adopted by the government of…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
By Emil Weber
The Government of Kosovo approved advanced legislation to enhance the protection of whistleblowers on June 12, 2018. The draft law has yet to be passed by the parliament.
Meeting of Kosovo Government on June 5th, 2018 (photo: kryeministri-ks.net)
Kosovo is consistently ranked among the most corrupt countries in the Western Balkans by the Freedom House.
“Since Kosovo has high corruption indicators, it is logical to establish strong legal standards of whistleblowing protection which would help fight corruption”, said Flutura Kusari, media lawyer at the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF). “The draft law on whistleblowers adopted by the government of…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
By Emil Weber
The Government of Kosovo approved advanced legislation to enhance the protection of whistleblowers on June 12, 2018. The draft law has yet to be passed by the parliament.
Meeting of Kosovo Government on June 5th, 2018 (photo: kryeministri-ks.net)
Kosovo is consistently ranked among the most corrupt countries in the Western Balkans by the Freedom House.
“Since Kosovo has high corruption indicators, it is logical to establish strong legal standards of whistleblowing protection which would help fight corruption”, said Flutura Kusari, media lawyer at the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF). “The draft law on whistleblowers adopted by the government of…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Sabrina Wilkinson, PhD researcher at Goldsmiths, University of London, researches the politics of internet regulation in Canada. In this blog post, she outlines the state of telecommunications services in Canada, with particular reference to a decision by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) that allowed a major provider to block access to a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) start-up from roaming on its […]
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Media Policy Project
Ragusa – On the 7th June 2018, three years after the event, the court of Ragusa has, in a shortened process, sentenced Giovanni Giacchi to four months in prison for serious threats regarding the journalist Paolo Borrometi, editor of LaSpia.it. Giacchi has benefitted from the conditional suspension of the sentence. On the 24th July 2015
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
A threatening banner on the motorway against the author of the investigative book, NazItalia, followed by a raid in Padua during the presentation of the book. Within a few weeks, the journalist Paolo Berizzi, editor of the daily newspaper La Repubblica and author of an investigation on the development of extreme right movements in
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Julia Rone, Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) in Bochum, Germany, here reflects on some of the implications of Facebook’s recent changes to its News Feed algorithm as they relate to Bulgaria. In January 2018 Facebook announced changes in its News Feed algorithm designed to curb the spread of “fake news” by prioritizing personal content at […]
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Media Policy Project
