How does the media on both sides of the Mediterranean report on Migration? - Reports

Media coverage is vital to shaping people’s opinions on migration, but journalism struggles to resist oversimplification, emotional approach and political interference

Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) - Stakeholders

The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) is a newly launched advocacy organization that promotes the rule of law, democracy and fundamental rights and freedoms with a special focus on Turkey.

SCF, a non-proft organization, was set up by a group of journalists who have been forced to live in self-exile in Sweden against the backdrop of a massive crackdown on press freedom in Turkey.

SCF is committed to serving as a reference source by providing a broader picture of rights violations in Turkey, monitoring daily developments on fact-based investigative journalism and documenting individual cases of the infringement of fundamental rights.

The EJN 5 Point Test For Hate Speech - HTML5 video

How can journalists determine what is hate speech? The EJN gives five points which media professionals should review before they publish

Fighting for recognition: Online abuse of women bloggers in Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States - Academic Sources

This study argues that democratic potential of social media in democracies remains haphazard because online abuse is not fully recognized as entangling online and offline communication, constituted and constructed through technological, legal, social, and cultural factors. It is based on interviews with 109 bloggers who write about feminisms, family, and/or maternity politics. According to the findings 73.4% had negative experiences due to blogging and/or social media use

Conference: Promoting dialogue between the European Court of Human Rights and the media freedom community - Opportunities

Registration will close on February 10 for the conference “Promoting dialogue between the ECtHR and the media freedom community”, to be held in Strasbourg on 24 of March 2017

Media Literacy Training 1 - Opportunities

Three international media literacy workshops will take place in 2017 (in Austria, Poland and Germany) with the aim to share good practices against hate speech and discrimination

Developing Internet Universality indicators - a UNESCO project - Opportunities

UNESCO’s project and online consultation to define Internet Universality indicators aims to build a framework of indicators through which to assess levels of achievement, in individual countries and internationally, of the four fundamental principles included in the Internet Universality concept

Joan Shorenstein Fellowship - Opportunities

One-semester residential fellowships to advance research in the field of media, politics and public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School in Cambridge

Training opportunity: Media Capture - The Relationship Between Power, Media Freedom and Advocacy - Opportunities

A training opportunity in Budapest to grasp the mechanisms through which political power captures media. Deadline for applications: 31 March 2017

Transparency of media ownership in Slovenia - Wikipedia Item

A new section on transparency of media ownership has been created within the article "Media of Slovenia ". Due to the lack of sources on this specific topic, this section needs further expansion. You can help to improve and expand it or you can suggest new sources through the crowd-sourcing section of the Resource Centre.

This contribution is part of the series on "Transparency of media ownership in Europe   " and will be followed by other country-specific items.