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Created on Facebook a false event that invited you to “dress up as a refugee and go under Tommasi’s home.” Twelve hundred signatures in less than 24 hours Saverio Tommasi, Florentine blogger, contributor to the online magazine Fanpage.it, on January 16, 2016 reported to the police the latest threatening episode: on Facebook someone created a
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
Both live under police protection. Ossigeno thanks the Head of State for his sensitivity on the issue of protecting threatened journalists The President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella, conferred the honor of Knight of Merit of the Italian Republic to the reporters under police protection Federica Angeli and Paolo Borrometi. It was announced by Ossigeno
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
The Court of Trapani commutes the suspension of the sentence to the payment of 5 thousand euro in compensation. Ossigeno asks: wasn’t it supposed to be abolished three years ago? The Singel Court Judge of Trapani sentenced Nicola Rinaudo, editor and publisher of the magazine with local audience Extra, to one year in prison, a
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
A firecracker exploded under the car parked in the street near her house. She says there are no surveillance cameras On January 17th, 2016, around 22 p.m., in Palermo, the explosion of a firecracker damaged the car of Stefania Petyx, reporter for Striscia La Notizia, the satirical news reel broadcast on Canale 5. The bomb
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
Allegations of “squadrism” against the website which also invited to write on these MPs public profiles, having already published their addresses In a note dated January 14th, 2015, Democratic Senators Mauro Del Barba, Stefano Collina, Emma Fattorini and Giancarlo Sangalli have defined as “a disgraceful squadrist method” the publishing by Gay.it of a list with
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
Leading academics from Hong Kong, New Zealand, Mozambique and the USA have written to Turkey’s Prime Minister demanding the release of jailed journalist Mehmet Haransu.
Mehmet Baransu (photo: Turgut Engin)
Haransu writes for the liberal national newspaper Taraf. He has been held for months without trial on the grounds that the charges are a matter of national security. In December 2015 he was fined the equivalent of 980 euros for allegedly insulting the president’s wife Emine Erdogan on Twitter.
We urge the Republic of Turkey to restore the credibility of its commitment to a democratic future. A first step in convincing…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Jane Whyatt, research Dr Petra GaustiWhen a new owner bought Slovakia’s SME newspaper group and announced his intention of running it for his commercial interests, something snapped in the newsroom.
Journalists led by Editor-in-Chief Matúš Kostolný decided to quit. And not only to quit, but to start their own newspaper. They would continue to produce independent, critical news reports and investigations and they would not accept editorial interference by owners or advertisers.
The result: Projekt N
Projekt N (Screenshot)
It was crowdsourced from the readers buying subscriptions – even before the first edition was produced. That is because the journalists involved had…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
As part of our series on algorithmic accountability, Frank Pasquale, professor of law at the University of Maryland, reflects on the roles of machines and machine learning in today’s society, and to what extent ‘opaque’ algorithmic systems should be subject to human oversight. In the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, the mission-controlling computer HAL acts mysteriously, and ultimately malevolently. The theme of […]
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Media Policy Project
The attacks on professional secrecy and on investigative journalism in Mafia trials stand out In January 2016 Ossigeno per l’Informazione reported in detail dozens of episodes that have targeted 49 journalists and bloggers. The most spectacular attack was carried out within the courtrooms of Rome during the trials to persons accused of mafia association against
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Ossigeno Informazione » english
The attacks on professional secrecy and on investigative journalism in Mafia trials stand out In January 2016 Ossigeno per l’Informazione reported in detail dozens of episodes that have targeted 49 journalists and bloggers. The most spectacular attack was carried out within the courtrooms of Rome during the trials to persons accused of mafia association against
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English