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Oscar Davies is a media lawyer who will start pupillage at One Brick Court in October 2019. In this blog, he provides the second part of his overview of the evidence submitted for the House of Lords Communications Inquiry “The Internet: to regulate or not to regulate?” (Part 1 can be found here). Responses to questions 4 to 6 of the Call for […]
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Media Policy Project
Photo: Vlad Ursulean
By Jane Whyatt
After suffering police violence and harassment during violent clashes between police and protestors in Bucharest, Romania, an Austrian TV crew is back at work.
Cameraman Robert Reinprecht and correspondent Ernst Geleg were amongst 450 people who were injured as tens of thousands of Romanians - including many from the European disapora - demonstrated against alleged corruption in their home country’s public life. Gelegs and Reinprecht work for the Austrian public service broadcaster ORF. They were filming a live report into the main national TV news show Zeit im Bild when the gendarmes attacked. In an interview with…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Photo: Vlad Ursulean
By Jane Whyatt
After suffering police violence and harassment during violent clashes between police and protestors in Bucharest, Romania, an Austrian TV crew is back at work.
Cameraman Robert Reinprecht and correspondent Ernst Geleg were amongst 450 people who were injured as tens of thousands of Romanians - including many from the European disapora - demonstrated against alleged corruption in their home country’s public life. Gelegs and Reinprecht work for the Austrian public service broadcaster ORF. They were filming a live report into the main national TV news show Zeit im Bild when the gendarmes attacked. In an interview with…
Source:
European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Photo: Vlad Ursulean
By Jane Whyatt
After suffering police violence and harassment during violent clashes between police and protestors in Bucharest, Romania, an Austrian TV crew is back at work.
Cameraman Robert Reinprecht and correspondent Ernst Geleg were amongst 450 people who were injured as tens of thousands of Romanians - including many from the European disapora - demonstrated against alleged corruption in their home country’s public life. Gelegs and Reinprecht work for the Austrian public service broadcaster ORF. They were filming a live report into the main national TV news show Zeit im Bild when the gendarmes attacked. In an interview with…
Source:
European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Photo: Dominic Negrici
By Jane Whyatt
EU officials and media freedom campaigners are condemning the actions of Romanian police during anti-corruption demonstrations in Bucharest.
At least sixteen examples of police violence against journalists and camera crews have been documented. Active Watch, ECPMF’s Romanian member organisation, calls on the police to publicly and urgently disclose the orders that were given to prevent journalists getting access the sanctions against police who committed violations and how the officers are trained to cover such events.
Amongst many Romanian reporters and demonstrators who suffered, an Austrian TV crew from the public service broadcaster ORF's main national TV news programme ZiB was…
Source:
European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Photo: Dominic Negrici
By Jane Whyatt
EU officials and media freedom campaigners are condemning the actions of Romanian police during anti-corruption demonstrations in Bucharest.
At least sixteen examples of police violence against journalists and camera crews have been documented. Active Watch, ECPMF’s Romanian member organisation, calls on the police to publicly and urgently disclose the orders that were given to prevent journalists getting access the sanctions against police who committed violations and how the officers are trained to cover such events.
Amongst many Romanian reporters and demonstrators who suffered, an Austrian TV crew from the public service broadcaster ORF's main national TV news programme ZiB was…
Source:
European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Photo: Dominic Negrici
By Jane Whyatt
EU officials and media freedom campaigners are condemning the actions of Romanian police during anti-corruption demonstrations in Bucharest.
At least sixteen examples of police violence against journalists and camera crews have been documented. Active Watch, ECPMF’s Romanian member organisation, calls on the police to publicly and urgently disclose the orders that were given to prevent journalists getting access the sanctions against police who committed violations and how the officers are trained to cover such events.
Amongst many Romanian reporters and demonstrators who suffered, an Austrian TV crew from the public service broadcaster ORF's main national TV news programme ZiB was…
Source:
European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Six months after a new German law – the Network Enforcement Act – has come into full effect, social media platforms are tasked to report on illegal hate speech. But as these figures have been made available, what can we learn from them? Researcher Kirsten Gollatz, Fellow Martin J. Riedl and Jens Pohlmann from the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) have a closer look at […]
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Media Policy Project
As we approach the brave new world of human-level machine intelligence, we may need to reassess what it means to be human, writes Andrew Murray, Professor of Law at LSE. For most of us, our understanding of robots and artificial intelligence (AI) is drawn more from science fiction than from fact. Intelligent robots are often portrayed as either a virulent […]
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Media Policy Project
by Lucie Sykorova
“Journalists are dung, faeces and cesspits, hyenas and stupid people who try to brainwash us and they should be liquidated.“ Czech people have already heard such public statements for years from the president Milos Zeman. As Reporters Without Borders notes, President Milos Zeman brandished a dummy Kalashnikov rifle inscribed with the word “journalists” at a press konference ... suggesting they should be “liquidated” while standing alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Other politicians are not lagging behind with insults and assaults on journalists, and they encourage their voters to do the same. When we add the influence of oligarchs on the…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)