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by Lutz Kinkel
The establishment of the IJ4EU grant was a great initiative by the European Parliament and the European Commission to support investigative journalism. But a lot remains to be done.
Lutz Kinkel ECPMF Managing Director, Scott Griffen IPI. Photo: ECPMF
This text was written following the UNCOVERED conference on 31.January and 1.February in Berlin. It includes the major aspects that were discussed at conference. Here are some examples of what we need next...
Daphne Caruana Galizia and Jàn Kuçiak were murdered because they were investigating corruption. Corruption is a deadly danger to our profession because it also affects the national authorities responsible…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Lutz Kinkel
The establishment of the IJ4EU grant was a great initiative by the European Parliament and the European Commission to support investigative journalism. But a lot remains to be done.
Lutz Kinkel ECPMF Managing Director, Scott Griffen IPI. Photo: ECPMF
This text was written following the UNCOVERED conference on 31.January and 1.February in Berlin. It includes the major aspects that were discussed at conference. Here are some examples of what we need next ...
Daphne Caruana Galizia and Jàn Kuçiak were murdered because they were investigating corruption. Corruption is a deadly danger to our profession because it also affects the national authorities…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Jane Whyatt
Trials in Turkey continue, with jail terms facing more journalists who were just doing their jobs. Long stretches behind bars are likely. Nedim Türfent of the pro-Kurdish Dicle News Agency (DİHA) has just notched up one thousand days, prompting a soldarity action.
Picture: International Press Institure
The media freedom community’s Turkey Advocacy Group, where the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) is a member, is urging everyone to sign a letter and send Türfent a message. ECPMF Legal Advisor Flutura Kusari comments:
“We have supported Nedim's case through our legal aid programme and we will continue to support him…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Damian Tambini In the fog of war over misinformation, child internet safety and the ‘techlash’ against data surveillance, media literacy is the one area of policy everyone agrees about. When it comes to using digital media, not only does media literacy allow users to identify and minimise online risks, from misinformation to cyberbullying and hate speech. It also enables them […]
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Media Policy Project
Improving the public’s media literacy is often cited as a key solution to the problems presented by the current information crisis, but how to go about doing this is less clear. LSE’s Damian Tambini writes here about some first steps that government could take to improve media literacy. In the fog of war over misinformation, child internet safety and the […]
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Media Policy Project
by Daniel Leon
Today, 29. January 2019, Ayşe Düzkan starts to serve her prison sentence. She is one of 56 Turkish journalists and civil society activists who took part in a media solidarity action from May to August 2016.
The "state of emergency" in Turkey continues nearly three years after the attempted coup against President Erdogan, as does the crackdown on civil society under its banner.
The solidarity action involved serving as “editor for a day” of the pro-Kurdish, Turkish-language daily Özgür Gündem, which means “Free Agenda.” The need for such an action arose after the government of President Recep Tayyip…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Hervé Kempf
Reporterre came into existence in 2007, as we entered a historic and life-altering environmental crisis. The environmental issue is the essential one dominating this early 21st century.
Screenshot from Reporterre website.
This raises an important political question: how will humanity make the economic choices that allow it to continue to live in peace and prosperity, and at the same time reduce its negative impact on the environment? This is the core question, which no major media really talks about.
Many media outlets continue reporting on economic news as if economic growth can continue without any major environmental impacts, or as…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Today is Data Privacy Day, celebrated annually to raise awareness about people’s rights and good practice when it comes to data protection and privacy. Here, the LSE’s Rishita Nandagiri, Professor Sonia Livingstone and Mariya Stoilova explain the findings of their recent research into children’s data and privacy online. Data Privacy Day invites us to consider that children’s online activities are the focus of a multitude of […]
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Media Policy Project
Today is Data Privacy Day, celebrated annually to raise awareness about people’s rights and good practice when it comes to data protection and privacy. Here, the LSE’s Professor Sonia Livingstone, Mariya Stoilova and Rishita Nandagiri explain the findings of their recent research into children’s data and privacy online. Data Privacy Day invites us to consider that children’s online activities are the focus of a multitude of […]
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Media Policy Project
By Jane Whyatt
Across Europe, media freedom campaigners continue to call for quality journalism and against fake news. Trust in the media took a knock when Spiegel correspondent Claas Relotius reporting was revealed as largely fictitious. But the German news magazine’s prompt response to the revelations show how seriously the issue is taken.
Source: The fin de siècle newspaper proprietor by Frederick Burr Opper
Stepping up to the mark, the ECPMF’s Resource Centre has published a new dossier on disinformation.
And the Ethical Journalism Network (EJN) is training journalists and media freedom campaigners in the importance of media literacy to newsrooms.
EJN’s Tom Law explains in a…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)