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Deadline: 15 June 2019 This annual essay contest is organized in an effort to harness the energy, creativity and initiative of the world’s youth in promoting a culture of peace and sustainable development. It also aims to inspire society to learn from the young minds and to think about how each of us can […]
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European Youth Press
Deadline: 15 June 2019 Fellowship Details The Logan Nonfiction Program offers two fellowship classes per year—one in the fall (October-December) and one in the spring (February-April). Organisers welcome between 10-20 nonfiction writers, documentary filmmakers, photo journalists, podcasters and multimedia creators per class. Fellows are provided lodging, meals, workspace, professional guidance and […]
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European Youth Press
Deadline: 28 June 2019 The Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Center for Business Journalism, an initiative of the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York, began offering Fellowships to accomplished journalists in the summer of 2014. Nearly three dozen veteran journalists have since been awarded grants of up to […]
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European Youth Press
In the recent EU elections, Germany’s two major political players CDU (the centre-right Christian Democratic Union) and SPD (the centre-left Social Democratic Party) incurred historic losses, losing 7.4 and 11.5 percentage points respectively. In this post, Nora Kroeger, PhD researcher at the LSE, discusses how the aftermath of the elections has brought about a curious debate around the regulation of […]
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Media Policy Project
Pitch deadline: June 7th 2019 Story deadline: June 15th 2019 For their ‘Discovery’ storytelling project, our Member Organisation Are We Europe is looking for stories to showcase Europe’s musical and cultural diversity. It is a paid opportunity for which they are urgently looking for stories from the following countries: – Croatia – Slovenia – […]
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European Youth Press
In April, the Ethiopian government published a draft law that aims to tackle hate speech and disinformation in the country. Here Halefom H. Abraha, a PhD candidate and Marie Curie research fellow at the University of Malta, analyses the proposed law, which he believes is highly problematic and raises more questions than it answers. Regulating problematic online content has become a […]
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Media Policy Project
A high-speed internet connection is crucial both for businesses to function effectively, and for individuals to enjoy the opportunities that being online brings, as consumers and as citizens. David Henriques, a Visiting Fellow here at the LSE and Senior Associate Economist at Ofcom, discusses the reasons for under-investment in fast broadband services, and the regulatory incentives that might be able to […]
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Media Policy Project
Tighter regulation of social media and other online services in now under discussion in several European countries, as well as in the UK where the government has released a white paper outlining its proposed approach to tackling online harm. Here, Professor Natali Helberger, Paddy Leerssen and Max Van Drunen from the Institute for Information Law at the University of Amsterdam argue […]
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Media Policy Project
Ahead of a meeting of the Legal Affairs and Human Rights Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in Paris, we sent this open letter to the Maltese PACE members.
28 May 2019
Dear Ms Cutajar, Mr Mallia, and Mr Stellini,
In CC: Jason Azzopardi, Etienne Grech, Stefan Zrinzo Azzopardi
We, the undersigned organisations have advocated extensively for justice in the case of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, who was assassinated by a car bomb in Malta on 16 October 2017, and are closely monitoring the process on the ground.
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has appointed…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Following more than two years of negotiations, the revised EU Audiovisual Media Services Directive was adopted in November 2018, aiming to better reflect the digital age and create a more level playing field between traditional television and newer on-demand and video-sharing services. Here, Lubos Kuklis, chief executive of the Slovak media authority (CBR) and chair of the European Regulators Group for Audiovisual Media […]
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Media Policy Project