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A daily occurrence in Balkan newsrooms and a risk factor for press freedom according to international bodies, online harassment against women in the media is on the rise everywhere
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
Media freedom and journalists’ organisations call on Russia to provide an enabling environment for journalists covering the Moscow protests
A coalition of eight media freedom and journalists’ organisations are calling on Russian authorities to immediately stop the harassment of journalists who have been covering the recent protests in Moscow.
22 August 2019
Since the electoral authorities rejected several opposition candidates for September’s city council elections, protesters have taken to the streets of Moscow on four consecutive Saturdays. Russian authorities have responded with threats, violence, and detentions.
Journalists who have been reporting on the protests have consistently been targeted. On 27 July 2019, two journalists…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Book review by Jane Whyatt
Lyra McKee was an investigative reporter who specialised in the untold stories of people caught up in Northern Ireland’s long civil war known as The Troubles. She was shot dead in Derry (also known as Londonderry) during rioting in April 2019.
Front cover detail of Lyra McKee's book Angels with Blue Faces. Photo: Excalibur Press Belfast
A native of Belfast, McKee was tenacious in researching violent events and questioning the official versions of what happened. She would spend hours in the Linenhall library poring over old press cuttings whenever she had spare time from her job as…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
An English version of this article can be found below.
Das ECPMF führt anlässlich der Landtagswahl in Sachsen eine Kampagne gegen Desinformation und für Pressefreiheit durch.
Anlässlich der Landtagswahl in Sachsen am 1. September 2019 führt das ECPMF seine Kampagne #ichwähleFakten durch. Ziel der Kampagne ist es, ein Statement zu setzen für Pressefreiheit und gegen Desinformation in Sachsen - der Heimat des ECPMF. Die Social Media Kampagne wird auf Wahlforen und Wahlkampfveranstaltungen in Leipzig und Dresden analog begleitet, um mit den Kandidatinnen und Kandidaten ihre Position zum Thema Medienfreiheit in Sachsen zu diskutieren. Die vergangenen Wahlen in Deutschland und Europa…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Ayse Duzkan
An English version of this article can be found here.
Onlar kendilerinden “Özgür Basın Geleneği” olarak söz ediyor ama biz onlar için genellikle Kürt medyası terimini kullanıyoruz. Avrupalı bir meslektaşımla sohbet ederken bu sözü kullanınca, Kürtçemin bu yayınları anlamaya yeterli olup olmadığını sordu.
Değil. Ama bu yayınlar Kürtçe değil ki. Bu gazetelere, TV kanallarına Kürt medyası diyoruz ama aslında genellikle Türkçe yazıp Türkçe yayın yapıyorlar. Ama Kürt gerçekliğini anlatıyorlar; çatışma, çarpışmalar, kültür, Kürtlerin gündelik hayatına dair gerçekler. Yani biz Türkler de okuyabilir, kulak verebilir, dinleyebilir ve bizden uzak tutulan gerçeklikle ilgili bir fikir edinebiliriz. Gerçeklikten kaçacak yer yok, kaçmak…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Ayse Duzkan
Bu makelenin Türkçe versiyonu burada bulunabilir.
They call themselves “Free Press Tradition” but we usually call them Kurdish media. When I used this term in a chat with a European colleague, he asked whether my Kurdish is sufficient to understand.
It is not. But they are not in Kurdish. We called these newspapers and TV channels Kurdish media yet actually they usually write and broadcast in Turkish but they talk about the Kurdish reality; the conflict, the clashes, the culture, the facts about the everyday life of Kurds. So we Turks can also read, listen, watch and get an…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
By Jane Whyatt
An Italian journalist faces financial hardship after her Freedom of Information requests for correspondence about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange are being subjected to long legal battles.
Stefania Maurizi's lawyers at the UK FOIA authority: Philip Coppel and Estelle Dehon of Cornerstone Barristers and Jennifer Robinson of Doughty Street Chambers. Photo: Emilia Butlin
Stefania Maurizi is an investigative reporter working for the Italian daily La Republicca and is based in Rome. Using the Freedom of Information laws, she filed a multi-jurisdictional request in Sweden, Britain, Australia and the United States to access the official messages about Assange, who lived in…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Concerns persist over the approval of the new package of amendments aimed at modifying two important laws on the Albanian media, the so-called "anti-defamation package"
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
2019 marked an important year in the world of media. For the first time [1], digital ad spending overtook traditional ad spending and will make more than half of the total media spending in the world. This is a huge sign for the future of journalism because the ad budget is positively correlated to the […]
The post The future of journalism: Why does traditional media still matter? appeared first on European Youth Press.
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European Youth Press
More than two years since the attempted coup in 2016 and one year after its state of emergency measures were lifted, the government of Turkey continues its relentless and pervasive crackdown on civic space, media freedom and dissenting voices.
Turkey’s human rights record will come under review by the UN through the Universal Period Review (UPR) mechanism in January 2020. Ahead of the review, ARTICLE 19, P24, PEN International, English PEN, Reporters Sans Frontiers (RSF), International Press Institute (IPI), Freemuse, European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF), IFEX and Norsk PEN have made a joint submission to the UPR.
“This report…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)