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(Vienna, March 19, 2018) A fund of up to €450,000 to support cross-border investigative journalism in the European Union is being launched today by the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) and the International Press Institute (IPI).
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The Investigative Journalism for Europe (#IJ4EU) fund is intended to foster and strengthen collaboration among European Union-based journalists and newsrooms on revelations in the public interest and of cross-border significance. The fund aims to support investigations that reflect the media's watchdog role and that assist the public in holding those in power accountable for their actions and to their obligations. In doing so, it seeks…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
By Emil Weber
Organisers of the civil protest in Slovakia are calling for snap elections despite Prime Minister Robert Fico’s resignation on Thursday, following the murder of investigative journalist Ján Kuciak.
More protests have been announced for Friday afternoon, 16 March 2018, in around 30 cities within Slovakia and also foreign capitals.
Thousands of people joined two earlier demonstrations in the past two weeks in the wake of the murder of Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kušnírová, who were found shot dead on February 25 in the town of Vel’ka Mača.
Kuciak’s recent social media posts and stories involved the doings of suspicious…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
This newsletter presents the last news originally published by Ossigeno per l’Informazione about attacks and violations of freedom of the expression and the media in Italy as well as in other countries. Also included are initiatives to tackle the issue with a review from international organisations in the field of freedom of expression But several rays
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
The journalist of La Repubblica has confirmed in court the accusations against the man who in 2013 threatened her and two video operators. Since then the reporter lives under police protection On February 19, 2018 the journalist Federica Angeli testified against Armando Spada, accused of threats and private violence against him. He told in detail
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
The journalist disappeared in Lebanon in 1980 together with her colleague Italo Toni, during a visit to the refugee camps of the FPLP Tell us, even anonymously, where Graziella De Palo is buried. On November 27, 2017 the journalist Massimo Numa on La Stampa (read) reported this appeal made by Fabio De Palo, brother of
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
The new president signed a transaction with the VicenzaPiù newspaper. In 2016 the former president of the Foundation, Giovanni Zonin, had mentioned the chied editor Giovanni Coviello The hearing of the civil case, filed at the Court of Vicenza, scheduled for September 2018, will no longer proceed. The issue was closed between the parties, on
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Found in Rome at the plant that prints the newspaper. The journalist deals with news related to the world of hooliganism On 22 February 2018 an anonymous, threatening and offensive banner (“slut” and “police spy”, it said) was posted in Rome, in the Torre Maura area, where the typographical plant of Il Messaggero is located.
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
On Wednesday, 14 March, as part of the Leipzig Bookfair the ECPMF, MEP Rebecca Harms and the daily Leipziger Volkszeitung joined forces to shed light on the situation of media freedom in Turkey.
Turkish journalist Yavuz Baydar at the opening of EXPRESSION INTERRUPTED! in Leipzig (photo: Sophie ABC/ ECPMF)
"This is the zeitgeist now - the corrosion of values and human rights... and Turkey is a leading force", Turkish journalist Yavuz Baydar says bleakly at the opening of the exhibition "Expression Interrupted!” by ECPMF, MEP of the Green Party Rebecca Harms and the daily Leipziger Volkszeitung. From Wednesday, 14th March…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Carminati’s attorney has again mocked the deputy editor in chief of L’Espresso who replies: so I’ve become a target. Solidarity with the journalist from Ossigeno and Fnsi On March 6, 2018, the lawyer Giosuè Naso, defender of Massimo Carminati, one of the accused in the “Mafia Capitale” trial attacked the Deputy Chief Editor of l’Espresso,
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
The report written by journalist Thomas Saintourens presented data collected by Ossigeno and interviews with Marilena Natale, Giovanni Tizian, Daniele Piervincenzi and Alberto Spampinato “In Italy, after having received threats from the mafia, nineteen journalists have been given round-the-clock protection. This is a growing phenomenon, especially after a clan of the ‘Ndrangheta appears to be the main suspect
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
