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This article is by John Carr, Visiting Senior Fellow in LSE Media and Communications. It originally appeared here Child sex abuse images which have been posted on the internet are important in and of themselves. We do not need to justify taking action against them on any grounds other than the fact that they exist. Let’s remind ourselves why. Every […]
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Media Policy Project
By the European Commission
In January 2018, the European Commission set up a high-level group of experts (HLEG) to advise on policy initiatives to counter fake news and disinformation spread online. The HLEG report is out as well as five recommendations.
"Enhance transparency of online news, involving an adequate and privacy-compliant sharing of data about the systems that enable their circulation online" is one of the recommendations
The HLEG report was designed to review best practices in the light of fundamental principles, and suitable responses stemming from such principles.
The analysis presented in the report starts from a shared understanding of disinformation as a phenomenon…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
On Monday evening, 12 March 2018, the ECPMF held a vigil for the murdered journalists Daphne Caruana Galizia and Ján Kuciak as well as his fiancée Martina at Leipzig's famous Nikolai church. Amongst 50 visitors was also the Honorary Consul of Slovakia.
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ECPMF's managing director Lutz Kinkel's address on 12 March 2018 at Nikolaikirche, Leipzig, Germany
"It is very moving for me to stand here. To become a part of this great and long tradition of the prayers for peace at Leipzig's church of St Nicholas.
I ask you today to remember the causes for which…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Two more Cumhuriyet journalists have been released, while Akın Atalay, managing director of the major Turkish daily, remains in prison
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
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 What should Europe
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
A system that monitors threats and violations of freedom of expression could prevent such serious crimes, as it already happens in Italy Earlier in Malta, later in Slovakia. After Daphne Caruana Galizia, killed in November 2017, on 22 February another journalist, Jan Kuciak, was killed. In Europe, we had long not seen a threat that ended
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
A system that monitors threats and violations of freedom of expression could prevent such serious crimes, as it already does in Italy First in Malta, then in Slovakia. After Daphne Caruana Galizia, killed in November 2017, on 22 February another journalist, Jan Kuciak, was killed. In Europe, it is a long time since a threat that ended
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
This article is by LSE MSc student Ariel Riera. Ariel was a Chevening Scholar 2017 and worked as a journalist at Chequeado from 2012 to 2017 In 2003 Brooks Jackson launched FactCheck.org, giving the name to a fact-checking style of reporting. This genre of journalism, understood briefly as testing factual claims in order to make public discourse accountable and more accurate, has been growing continuously. […]
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Media Policy Project
Amnesty International, ARTICLE 19, European Centre for Press and Media Freedom, PEN Belgium/Flanders, PEN Nederland, PEN International and Reporters Without Borders continue to follow the criminal proceedings against the reporters and other staff of Cumhuriyet newspaper with great concern. Several international observers will also be present at the sixth hearing, taking place on Friday 9 March 2018.
"As the Cumhuriyet case resumes in a sixth hearing tomorrow , Friday 9 March 2018, in Turkey, international media freedom organisations joint forces to deliver this pre-hearing statement today."
‘This trial is a chilling illustration of the steep deterioration of freedom of expression and…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
On the basis of this principle, reaffirmed by the judges of Strasbourg, the defense of the journalist Raffaella Fanelli has been set up, acquitted by the GIP of Milan In defending the journalist Raffaella Fanelli, assisted by Ossigeno per l’Informazione, which was acquitted by the investigating magistrate of aggravated defamation (read), I reminded the judge
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
