Web Index - Indexes

The Web Index is designed and produced by the World Wide Web Foundation to measure the World Wide Web’s contribution to social, economic and political progress in countries across the world

Summer School on Media in Political Participation and Mobilization - Opportunities

Organized by COSMOS and the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Scuola Normale Superiore, the upcoming Summer School on “Media in Political Participation and Mobilization” will be held in Florence on 26-30 June 2017

Global Right to Information Rating - Indexes

The Global Right to Information Rating examines the strength of legal frameworks and discrepancies in implementation in 102 countries across the world

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 an 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.

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

The Right to Information Is a Human Right, Strasbourg Rules - Legal Resources

Hungarian authorities erred when they refused to provide a human rights NGO access to information – an essential part of freedom of expression – about the employment of pro deo lawyers

Violations of journalists rights in Ukraine - First half 2016 Monday 23 January 2017 - Infographic

Violations of journalists rights in Ukraine - First half 2016 ... Violations of journalists rights in Ukraine - First half 2016

Institute of Mass Information (Ukraine) - Stakeholders

The Institute of Mass Information (IMI) is a Kiev-based non-governmental organization whose objective is to defend journalists’ rights, to upgrade their professional skills and to consolidate press freedom in Ukraine.

IMI publishes regular news about violations of press freedom in Ukraine, as well as extensive reports and analyses of press freedom in the country.

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