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Policymakers around the world are considering how to tackle the spread of misinformation and the problems it causes, particularly at election times. Looking at the European Commission’s plan to fight disinformation in advance of European Parliament elections in May, Julia Rone argues that its focus on disinformation is too narrow. Her research on radical right media has been conducted within the framework of visiting […]
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Media Policy Project
Dear Prime Minister Edi Rama,
Dear Minister of Justice Etilda Gjonaj,
Copy: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, the Council of Europe Office in Tirana, Delegation of the European Union to Albania
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I'm writing to you on behalf the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF), the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and PEN International regarding the initiative of your government to amend the media legislation in your country and the procedure that was followed.
Your government has proposed the following major changes in media regulation: state regulation of online media and compulsory registration of online media.1…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
An Ofcom consultation earlier this year asked for views on how to appropriately maintain the prominence of public service content in an online environment, and the communications regulator is expected to make recommendations in the new year. Clare Sumner, BBC Director, Policy, explains here why the BBC and other public service broadcasters have called upon the Government to update the […]
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Media Policy Project
An Ofcom consultation earlier this year asked for views on how to appropriately maintain the prominence of public service content in an online environment, and the communications regulator is expected to make recommendations in the new year. Clare Sumner, BBC Director, Policy, explains here why the BBC and other public service broadcasters have called upon the Government to update the […]
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Media Policy Project
By Jane Whyatt
German investigative reporter Oliver Schröm faces a possible three years in jail just for doing his job by exposing wrongdoing on a massive scale.
Oliver Schröm. Foto: Ivo Mayr, Correctiv
As the Editor-in-Chief of Correctiv he built a team to uncover the so-called Cum Ex scandal which is estimated to have defrauded European taxpayers out of 55.2 billion euros in unpaid taxes.
Correctiv’s strongly-worded open letter to Germany’s Justice Minister Katarina Barley and Finance Minister Olaf Scholz gathered more than 15,000 signatures in just one day. The letter is headed: ’Journalism is not a crime’ and points out that the journalistic investigation…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
This year was not an easy one for media freedom in Europe. We met with deadly aggression, power-hungry oligarchs and corrupt politicians. Yet we were also proud to defend journalists under threat, to stand with our partners and supporters in the media freedom community to make some noise - and to shine a light. Because democracy dies in darkness.
With Bulgaria holding the EU Council Presidency, we turned a spotlight on press freedom in our Brussels Expert Talk in January and Fact-Finding Mission to Sofia in June.
Hate speech in the media was the focus of our Fact-Finding Mission to…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
The almost daily news stories on data privacy and data breaches – including those affecting children – raise urgent questions as everyday activities and actions generate data that are recorded, tracked, collated, analysed and monetised by a range of actors. Rishita Nandagiri, Sonia Livingstone and Mariya Stoilova discuss their systematic evidence mapping of studies of how children themselves understand their […]
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Media Policy Project
The almost daily news stories on data privacy and data breaches – including those affecting children – raise urgent questions as everyday activities and actions generate data that are recorded, tracked, collated, analysed and monetised by a range of actors. Rishita Nandagiri, Sonia Livingstone and Mariya Stoilova discuss their systematic evidence mapping of studies of how children themselves understand their […]
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Media Policy Project
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on 4thDecember 2018 backed a Hungarian news portal for hyperlinking a Youtube video which, according to the domestic courts, contained “defamatory” remarks about an anti-Roma political party.
Building of the European Court of Human Rights (photo: CherryX)
The ECtHR’s decision is highly relevant for media and journalists since hyperlinking has become a widely used reporting technique.
The popular news portal 444.hu, owned by Magyar Jeti Zrt, reported back in September 2013 on a case involving Hungarian football fans who, while travelling by bus towards Romania, had stopped in front of a school in the village…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
ECPMF's Prague conference on media ownership structures was a rollercoaster ride of emotions from being alarm to outrage to hope ... in case you missed it here are a summary and impressions of the day.
(photo: ECPMF/ Andreas Lamm)
Bulgarian investigative journalist Rossen Bossev spoke about the daily life of independent journalists in his home country which is ruled by oligarchs who care more about value than values. You could wonder how this young man keeps going, facing harassment and intimidation every other day. He just smiled and said: "We are to young not to fight." This hopeful credo sums up ECPMF's…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)