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The media policy landscape in Argentina is fast-changing. Here, Martín Becerra and Guillermo Mastrini, researchers at the Argentine National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) and professors at Universidad Nacional de Quilmes and UBA, assess developments implemented by recent presidents. Discussion about the media in Argentina tends to blur the explosive impact of the traditional media sector’s global economic crisis with particularities […]
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Media Policy Project
The ECPMF joined other journalists and human rights organisations in sending a joint letter to the United Nations Human Rights Council member and observer states to raise the ongoing crisis for freedom of expression in Turkey.
03 September 2019
Re: To Human Rights Council Member and Observer States of the United Nations Human Rights Council, to raise the ongoing crisis for freedom of expression in Turkey
Excellencies,
Ahead of the 42nd regular session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC), we, the undersigned human rights and journalists’ organisations, call on your delegation to speak out and address the Turkish government’s repressive campaign…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Deadline: 18 September, 2019 The Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY announces its next Resilience Journalism Fellowship, to be held from October 26th to November 1st, 2019. This program will be held primarily in New York’s six-million-acre park, the Adirondacks. This unique location will offer a special first-hand look at resilience issues facing […]
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European Youth Press
Deadline: 30 September, 2019 The Internationale Journalisten-Programme (IJP) organizes the German-Dutch Journalists’ Bursary. The program will send six Dutch and six German journalists to work for six to eight weeks in Dutch or German newsrooms of their choice while also researching stories for their home organization. The fellowship will begin late February 2020, followed by an introductory seminar in Den […]
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European Youth Press
Policy makers in the UK and elsewhere are grappling with how to address the spread of ‘harmful’ content online. Bertie Vidgen, a Research Associate at the Alan Turing Institute whose research focuses on detecting, analysing, and countering online hate speech in both news and social media, looks at an industry efforts to tackle problematic content and practices online and assesses whether it […]
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Media Policy Project
By Jane Whyatt and Simon Akam
Journalist Simon Akam, who spent a year in the British Army before attending university, was commissioned to research and write a critical book about the evolution of the Army post 9/11. When the publisher refused to release the book, Akam suspected censorship by the British defence establishment.
Author Simon Akam. Photo:private
The book was commissioned by Penguin Random House UK imprint William Heinemann. They asked him to research and write, in their words, an “explosive, intimate, authoritative“ account of Army life.
Even though Akam had recorded interviews on the record with hundreds of former Army personnel, publishers…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
By Jane Whyatt and Simon Akam
Journalist Simon Akam, who spent a year in the British Army before attending university, was commissioned to research and write a critical book about the evolution of the Army post 9/11. When the publisher refused to release the book, Akam suspected censorship by the British defence establishment.
Author Simon Akam. Photo:private
The book was commissioned by Penguin Random House UK imprint William Heinemann. They asked him to research and write, in their words, an “explosive, intimate, authoritative“ account of Army life.
Even though Akam had recorded interviews on the record with hundreds of former Army personnel, publishers…
Source:
European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Deadline: 8 September, 2019 The Data Communication Fellowship is a 1 year-long program that consists of 3 weeks long Tbilisi based training followed by an online mentorship program. During this year fellows will advance their skills in data collection, data analysis, data storytelling, information design, etc. They will be responsible for researching, writing, designing, […]
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European Youth Press
Deadline: 26 September, 2019 Minority rights and migration are major issues in the world today. This exciting new project will offer journalists, journalism students and students from social sciences and humanities interested in journalism in Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia the chance to learn how to source important stories relating to these issues, how to get […]
The post Call for “Media, Minorities and Migration” programme appeared first on European Youth Press.
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European Youth Press
In his last column entitled ”What the Arab world needs most is free expression”, written for the Washington Post before his disappearance in Istanbul, the Arab journalist Jamal Khashoggi discussed his friend, prominent Saudi writer Saleh al-Shehi, who is now serving an unwarranted 5-year prison sentence for supposed comments against the Saudi establishment. Four years ago, in 2014, […]
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European Youth Press