CEI SEEMO Award for Outstanding Merits in Investigative Journalism - Opportunities

The Call is open to nationals of the 18 CEI Member States, until Tuesday, 31 May 2016 (23.59 CEST)

Public Service News and Digital Media - Reports

Can public service news organisations stay competitive in a digital environment? Reuters Institute explores the issue focusing on public media service in 6 European countries

Media Pluralism Monitor 2014 - Monitoring tool

The Media Pluralism Monitor 2014 is a measurement tool updating and testing previous monitoring tools, designed to assess the risks to media pluralism in EU member states

MEDIADEM - Stakeholders

MEDIADEM was a European research project lasted from April 2010 to March 2013 focusing on the factors that promote or conversely prevent the development of policies supporting free and independent media.

The project combined a country-based study in Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Italy, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey and the UK with a comparative analysis across media sectors and various types of media services. It investigated the configuration of media policies in the aforementioned countries and examined the opportunities and challenges generated by new media services for media freedom and independence. Moreover, external pressures on the design and implementation of state media policies, stemming from the European Union and the Council of Europe, are thoroughly discussed and analysed.

The coordinator of the project has been the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy.

DIG Awards - Opportunities

The DIG Awards reward excellence in investigative journalism, encouraging the use of video in the reporting work. Next deadline: 31st March 2016.

EJC Innovative Development Reporting Grants - Opportunities

The European Journalism Centre provides grants for innovative reporting of development stories. Deadline: 7 September 2016

Paid traineeship opportunity for journalists at EUI (Florence) - Opportunities

The Communications Service of the European University Institute, based in Florence (Italy) is looking for a journalist, for a 12 months period of time. Applications open till 26th February, 2016.

Carta di Roma - Stakeholders

The Association Carta di Roma  has been founded in December 2011 in Italy with the goal of implementing the Journalist’s Code of Conduct on immigration, signed by the National Council of Journalists (CNOG) and the National Federation of the Italian Press (FNSI) in June 2008.

Carta di Roma seeks to be a stable reference point for those who work on daily basis with media and minorities issues: journalists, media operators, as well as various institutions, associations and activists involved in promoting and supporting the rights of asylum seekers, refugees, minorities and migrants in the field of media reporting.

The Association's main activities aim to promote respect and guarantee of the rights of asylum seekers, refugees, migrants or minorities, and consist of training activities for media operators; research and monitoring; organisation of discussions and seminars; initiatives and public events aimed to encourage the correct and responsible reporting about immigration, minorities or the right to seek asylum.

DLA Piper - Support Centres

DLA Piper is a private law firm that provides legal support to staff and freelance journalists, editors, media outlets; civic media/bloggers as well as NGOs that provide legal, financial or advocacy support for journalists/media outlets, and/or journalist associations in Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey and UK.

The person to be contacted is Özgür Kahale from Pro Bono Counsel (ozgur.kahale@dlapiper.com or +33 1 40 15 25 13). The fee is Pro Bono.

Europe’s journalists subjected to increasing levels of harassment Friday 22 January 2016 - Infographic

  This infographics offers a visual representation of the outcomes of the monitoring activity conducted by Index on Censorship’s Mapping Media Freedom project. Turkey, Italy and Hungary appear ... European_policies_and_legislation, Italy, Turkey ... European_policies_and_legislation Italy Turkey