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Deadline: September 23, 2019 Investigative journalists can apply for a reporting grant. The grants, sponsored by the Fund for Investigative Journalism, are intended to support investigative projects that break new ground and expose wrongdoing – such as corruption, malfeasance or misuse of power – in the public and private sectors. The maximum award is US$10,000, […]
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Deadline: September 15, 2019 The United Nations Correspondents Association (UNCA) invites media worldwide to submit entries for its 24th annual UNCA Awards for the best print, broadcast (TV & Radio) and online, web-based media coverage of the United Nations, U.N. agencies and field operations. The UNCA awards are open to all journalists anywhere […]
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Deadline: August 31, 2019 The annual Global Media and Information Literacy Week will be celebrated from 24 to 31 October this year, under the theme “MIL Citizens: Informed, Engaged, Empowered”. The Global MIL Week 2019 Feature Conference, the Ninth MIL and Intercultural Dialogue (MILID) Conference, will be held from 24 to 25 September 2019 […]
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Join Are We Europe for a week-long masterclass about multimedia storytelling in Yerevan, Armenia. This autumn, Are We Europe is teaming up with their partner-in-crime Cafébabel to organise the week of our dreams: masterclasses in multimedia storytelling, on the ground reporting and, as a result, a beautiful multimedia story. You will join us and a […]
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The European Youth Press (EYP), network of young media makers, is seeking minimum one (1) and a maximum of five (5) new members to join the Executive Board for the 2019/2021-mandate period. The elections will take place at the General Assembly of the European Youth Press on 19–20 October 2019 in Brussels, Belgium. The […]
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by Fred Krull
Finland holds the presidency of the council of the EU for the next six months.To find out what this means for press and media freedom in Europe, the ECPMF talked to Salla Vuorikoski, a leading Finnish investigative journalist who reported on the "Sipilägate"scandal in 2017 and later resigned from the Finnish public broadcaster Yle after disagreements over journalistic integrity.
Salla Vuorikoski. Photo: private, reproduced with her permission
ECPMF: What is it in your opinion that makes Finland one of the world's leading nations for press freedom ?
SV: It has to do with the high level of reliable and transparent public governance. And of course we made good…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by ECPMF
In a busy week for Turkey’s courts, the ECPMF sent two representatives to Turkey in order to monitor court hearings and to meet with journalists, defendants, lawyers, consuls and press freedom and human rights organisations.
Inside Caglayan Justice Palace Istanbul. Photo: ECPMF
The court week was supposed to start on Tuesday with the long-awaited fourth hearing in the trial of Turkish-German journalist Deniz Yücel. The Constitutional Court ruled in June that his one-year long detention without a formal indictment was unlawful – but his trial was adjourned until October 2019. Yücel faces “terrorist propaganda” charges and has left the country.
Another…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
LSE’s Emma Goodman discusses the risks of anti-vaccination content on social media, and how the tech companies are addressing it. This article is a response to a workshop organised earlier this month by the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) on ‘Vaccines, information and social media’. The problem It’s not the only health issue to be subject to misinformation online, […]
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Media Policy Project
Gezi Park’s second hearing confirms lack of rule of law in Turkey
by ECPMF
The European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) joins 19 other freedom of expression and human rights organisations in a statement on the so-called Gezi Park trial, condemning the interim judicial decision taken in the second hearing.
We, the undersigned human rights and freedom of expression organisations, condemn the interim judicial decision taken in the second hearing of the Gezi Park trial. The indictment accuses 16 civil society figures and arts practitioners in Turkey of having planned to “attempt to overthrow the government” and of having financed the…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Since 2016, concerns about ‘fake news’ have reached new heights. But what is the actual impact of online misinformation on audience’s political knowledge and attitudes? The LSE’s Rodolfo Leyva recently completed two experimental studies: one looking at the effects of fake news stories on voter support for US presidential election candidates, and one testing the effects of conservative newspapers in […]
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Media Policy Project