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Deadline: 15 November 2018 IFFR recognises the vital importance of film analysis and criticism. That’s why, in 1998, we launched our Young Film Critics trainee programme to support a new generation of young and upcoming film critics. A group of young and motivated professional film critics from outside the Netherlands are invited to come […]
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European Youth Press
Burned in effigy. Insulted. Spat at. Discredited by their nation’s leaders. Assaulted. Sued. Death threats. Assassinations. This is the landscape faced by journalists throughout Europe over the past four years. ECPMF partner Mapping Media Freedom presents its new report.
(picture: Mapping Media Freedom)
Mapping Media Freedom has documented media freedom incidents across Europe, over 3,000 were surveyed for this report, since May 2014. The information gathered shows journalists and media outlets targeted in a kaleidoscopic array by political leaders, businesses and the general public – but some key trends have emerged from the reports recorded and verified by the platform. This document…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
The Erasmus Mundus Master’s in Journalism, Media and Globalisation welcomes applications from graduate students around the world. You must have completed a relevant bachelor degree (before course start) in order to be eligible for this programme. Applications are open each year from the start of November until early January. You can apply for […]
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European Youth Press
New Bellingcat Workshops Announced for Berlin, London, Washington, and Amsterdam Bellingcat is holding a series of workshops in Europe and the United States in 2018 and early 2019, where participants can learn the tools and methodologies used by Bellingcat in their investigations. Currently 5-day workshops are planned for the following dates: Berlin: November […]
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European Youth Press
By Emil Weber
Istanbul based publisher Fatih Taş has won a fifth freedom of expression case against Turkey at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).
Disappeared journalist Nazım Babaoğlu and the book cover (photo: http://platform24.org)
Back in 2004, Taş’s company Aram Publishing House was publishing a book with the title “Kayıpsın diyorlar” (They say you disappeared) about the presumed death of journalist Nazım Babaoğlu in 1994 who was at that time working for the pro-Kurdish daily “Ozgur Gundem”.
The book claims that Babaoğlu was abducted by town guards and anti-guerrilla forces while working on an investigative report in Siverek, a small town…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
The Office of the Children’s Commissioner for England has just published a new report looking at how vast amounts of children’s data is collected, and calling on internet giants and other companies to be transparent about how they are capturing information about children and how it is being used. Sonia Livingstone, LSE Professor of Social Psychology, Mariya Stoilova, researcher on […]
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Media Policy Project
Corruption, murder of journalists, and lost children. IJ4EU, investigative journalism projects in Europe supported by the inaugural IJ4EU fund are off to a strong start.
The IJ4EU Investigative Journalism fund
The IJ4EU (Investigative Journalism for the EU) fund was launched earlier this year to encourage investigations that cross European borders. In June, an independent jury led by Süddeutsche Zeitung Editor-in-Chief Wolfgang Krach awarded €315,000 to 12 projects. The fund is backed by the European Commission via the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) and managed by IPI, a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
The Information Commissioner’s Office recently ran a consultation on an age appropriate design code for information society services, (a requirement of the Data Protection Act 2018 which supports and supplements the implementation of the GDPR). LSE researchers Jun Yu, Mariya Stoilova and Professor Sonia Livingstone explain here the key arguments and suggestions that came out of an expert seminar held at the LSE in September 2018. The European General Data Protection […]
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Media Policy Project
One year after the Daphne Caruana Galizia murder the investigation in Malta is stalled. This is an in-depth interview with her son the journalist Matthew Caruana Galizia speaking about the toxic price of impunity, the day of the murder and the future of his home country.
Investigative journalist Matthew Caruana Galizia (photo: Berge Arabian)
How do you remember the 16. October 2017, the day that changed the life of your family as well as the way that Europe thinks about itself?
I had gone back to Malta about a month and a half before, to live at my parents’ house and…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
By ECPMF
It’s almost nine months since the assassination of investigative journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancee in Slovakia. ECPMF’s Legal Advisor Flutura Kusari travelled to Bratislava again to monitor the state of the murder investigations. She also met Ján Kuciak’s parents. This is the interview.
A memory wall in the home of Ján Kuciak's parents (photo: ECPMF)
Jána Kuciakova and Jozef Kuciak, the parents of murdered journalist Ján Kuciak, live a two-hour drive from Bratislava. Štiavnik is a small town in the Javorníky mountains in the North with a little over 4000 residents, dimly lit streets, houses with big yards, and a…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)