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About thirty militants at the entrance to the TV studios, several inside. Stopped by the police. The refusal of the anchor-man Giovanni Floris (DiMartedi) to admit uninvited guests. Around thirty militants of Forza Nuova, on the 20th February 2018 arrived at the entrance to the television studios of La7 where the programme DiMartedi was being
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Interviewed by Gaetano Pecoraro, the journalist explains why she has left her home in Casarano (Lecce) and recounts the numerous threats received. The repeated serious threats and intimidations directed at the journalist, Marilù Mastrogiovanni, editor of the online newspaper Il Tacco d’Italia were recalled on the 19th March 2018 in the national television programme, Le
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Panama Papers’ editor to head #IJ4EU fund jury
Süddeutsche Zeitung's Wolfgang Krach will oversee selection of cross-border investigative projects.
Wolfgang Krach, editor-in-chief of Germany’s Süddeutsche Zeitung, will serve as the jury chair of the inaugural Investigative Journalism for Europe fund (#IJ4EU), which will distribute up to €450,000 to support cross-border investigative journalism projects in the European Union.
As editor of the Munich-based Süddeutsche Zeitung, Krach led the paper’s investigation of the Panama Papers in cooperation with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and over 100 media organisations around the world. The investigation, based on 11.5 million documents on the offshore tax activities…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
The journalist was following the activities of the municipal council. A note left on the windscreen of the car and an intimidating phone call to an editor of the newspaper. On the evening of the 2nd March 2018, around 10pm a journalist from the daily newspaper Il Roma of Potenza found on the car’s windscreen
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Giuseppe Laratta was carrying out a reportage on the preparations of a tent city for homeless persons in a municipal structure. The incident reported. Solidarity of the union. On the 27th February 2017 the journalist Giuseppe Laratta, collaborator with the local broadcaster LaC TV has been roughed up whilst documenting, near the municipal sports ground
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
She had been conducting for PiazzaPulita an investigation in the Le Salzare neighbourhood into commercial activities based in illegally constructed buildings which do not pay taxes to the municipality. On the 7th February 2018, at Ardea (Roma) in the Le Salzare neighbourhood, a collaborator with the television news programme PiazzaPulita of the La7 network,
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
In Montenegro, police are investigating an explosion that destroyed a hired car parked outside the home of TV journalist Sead Sakinović. Two men have been arrested. ECPMF spoke to the journalist.
Montenegrin journalist Sead Sadiković: "We are in danger but we are not scared"
"This is a worrying development in Montenegro, an EU candidate country where the protection of journalists and their right to broadcast critical stories should be taken seriously. We urge the authorities to carry out a swift and thorough investigation,“ says ECPMF's managing director Lutz Kinkel.
Two men have been arrested in connection with the late-night bombing on…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Mario Idone (Med Media News) was filming three persons coming out having been charged with homicide. Attacked by two men. Video camera damaged. The journalist, Mario Idone, a video reporter of Med Media News, an agency which works in Reggio Calabria and provides services for local and national broadcasters, was attacked on the 16th March
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Simone Zazzera wanted to know if he had conducted excavations in the sealed building site after the collapse. The man ripped off his glasses and threw them into the road. On the 15th February 2018 the journalist Simone Zazzera from Rai Radio News was assaulted at Palestrina (Roma) by a developer from whom he had
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Persons unknown damaged his car during the night. The reporter and sociologist has reported the attack. “My commitment against exploitation will continue” he told Ossigeno. He also met with the board of FNSI Omizzolo’s vehicle was parked below his house in Sabaudia in the province of Latina. Persons unknown had slashed his tyres, had pierced
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
