Whistleblowers: looking for European protection - Article

The second of a series of three thematic itineraries to explore the Resource Centre on Media Freedom through a curated aggregation of contents.

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“News you don’t believe”: Audience perspectives on fake news - Reports

While a narrow definition of the term “fake news” deals with fabricated news reports, audiences use the same expression in a more broad meaning. RISJ’s Factsheet aims at contributing to the discussion on fake news from the point of view of “ordinary people”

Public Consultation on Public Sector Information - Opportunities

The European Commission is launching a public consultation to evaluate the implementation of the Public Sector Information (PSI) Directive

First summer without extra roaming charges | Flash Eurobarometer survey full report - Datasets

The European commission launched a Eurobarometer Flash survey to measure the awareness of the end of roaming charges in the EU and the impact this has had on citizens’ mobile use when travelling within the EU after 15 June 2017

Fixed Broadband Prices in Europe 2016 - Datasets

This study provides comprehensive data on the 2016 retail prices of fixed broadband offers for consumers in the EU28

Broadband coverage in Europe - Datasets

Europe-wide overview and country comparisons on broadband coverage across Europe

Information disorder: Toward an interdisciplinary framework for research and policy making - Reports

A publication of the Council of Europe which provides a comprehensive conceptual framework and possible solutions to dis-information and mis-information

Online course "Product Management for Journalists" - Training

A Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) offered by the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas 

Junk News and Bots during the German Parliamentary Election: What are German Voters Sharing over Twitter? - Academic Sources

The article studies Twitter data on bot activity and junk news using a set of hashtags related to the 2017 German Parliamentary Election

Media freedom in Montenegro: a survey of publications - Article

The media sector in Montenegro is characterised by strong political polarisation. The few examples of non-aligned investigative journalism are subject to both direct and indirect pressure by the financial and political powers in the form of legal actions and, in the worst cases, of physical attacks to reporters and their property.