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“Media Moving Forward: Reporting on and Using New Technologies”

Training course in Salzburg from July 9-15, Austria Call for participants – Deadline for applications: 10 June 2018, 23:59 CET.   Are you enthusiastic young media makers (student or recent graduate), working for non-governmental organisations focused on media, or simply interested in media and would like to be involved in it? Then this call is […] The post “Media Moving Forward: Reporting on and Using New Technologies” appeared first on European Youth Press.

Source: European Youth Press

MEPs discuss Cambridge Analytica’s role in Brexit

By Mary Honeyball MEP  This article first appeared on The Honeyball Buzz, the personal blog of Mary Honeyball, MEP for London and is reproduced with her permission. Following Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony in the European Parliament two weeks ago, a conference was held on 4 June 2018 with influential speakers, some of whom were directly involved in breaking the Cambridge Analytica news story, in which delegates were told about the lengths to which the company (now dissolved) went to in order to achieve the results it was being paid to get. The European Parliament in Strasbourg (photo by Diliff, European Parliament Strasbourg Hemicycle…

Source: European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)

MEPs discuss Cambridge Analytica’s role in Brexit

By Mary Honeyball MEP  This article first appeared on The Honeyball Buzz, the personal blog of Mary Honeyball, MEP for London and is reproduced with her permission. Following Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony in the European Parliament two weeks ago, a conference was held on 4 June 2018 with influential speakers, some of whom were directly involved in breaking the Cambridge Analytica news story, in which delegates were told about the lengths to which the company (now dissolved) went to in order to achieve the results it was being paid to get. The European Parliament in Strasbourg (photo by Diliff, European Parliament Strasbourg Hemicycle…

Source: European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)

MEPs discuss Cambridge Analytica’s role in Brexit

By Mary Honeyball MEP  This article first appeared on The Honeyball Buzz, the personal blog of Mary Honeyball, MEP for London and is reproduced with her permission. Following Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony in the European Parliament two weeks ago, a conference was held on 4 June 2018 with influential speakers, some of whom were directly involved in breaking the Cambridge Analytica news story, in which delegates were told about the lengths to which the company (now dissolved) went to in order to achieve the results it was being paid to get. The European Parliament in Strasbourg (photo by Diliff, European Parliament Strasbourg Hemicycle…

Source: European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)

Lecco: “Keep your back covered”… Police protect journalist after e-mail threats

The journalist is Antonella Crippa of La Provincia di Lecco. The anonymous message reproduces the article published a year before about an assault on Beppe Grossi a collaborator on the same newspaper The journalist, Antonella Crippa editor of the daily newspaper La Provincia di Lecco lives under intermittent police protection since the 26th March 2018

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

Albanian journalists win test case against SLAPP lawsuit

by Emil Weber Two award-winning Albanian journalists have won a long-running defamation case that sets an important precedent for press freedom. The Court was clearer and firmer than it had ever been before on the status of the right to access information as part of the right to freedom of expression guaranteed by Article 10 of the European Convention, it stopped short of acknowledging access to information as a fully-fledged right under the provision. Besar Likmeta and Aleksandra Bogdani defended their reports about the wealth statements and the termination of an official investigation against a judge, Gjoni Gjin and his wife Elona…

Source: European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)

Albanian journalists win test case against SLAPP lawsuit

by Emil Weber Two award-winning Albanian journalists have won a long-running defamation case that sets an important precedent for press freedom. The Court was clearer and firmer than it had ever been before on the status of the right to access information as part of the right to freedom of expression guaranteed by Article 10 of the European Convention, it stopped short of acknowledging access to information as a fully-fledged right under the provision. Besar Likmeta and Aleksandra Bogdani defended their reports about the wealth statements and the termination of an official investigation against a judge, Gjoni Gjin and his wife Elona…

Source: European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)

Albanian journalists win test case against SLAPP lawsuit

by Emil Weber Two award-winning Albanian journalists have won a long-running defamation case that sets an important precedent for press freedom. The Court was clearer and firmer than it had ever been before on the status of the right to access information as part of the right to freedom of expression guaranteed by Article 10 of the European Convention, it stopped short of acknowledging access to information as a fully-fledged right under the provision. Besar Likmeta and Aleksandra Bogdani defended their reports about the wealth statements and the termination of an official investigation against a judge, Gjoni Gjin and his wife Elona…

Source: European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)

Reggio Calabria: Adrianna Musella will not face trial for calumny

The court decided that there was no case to answer in the case of the president of the antimafia association “Riferimenti” The procedure had been a formality On the 24th May 2018 the prosecutor of the court of Reggio Calabria determined that the court was not the place to proceed regarding Adriana Musella, president of

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

Marco Benanti did not defame Montante who had asked for 100,000 euro damages

The court rejected the demand of the former president of the Sicilian chapter of Confindustria ordering him to pay the legal expenses of the journalist The civil court of Catania rejected the request for damages of 100,000 euro for defamation by the journalist Marco Benanti submitted by the former president of the Sicilian chapter of

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
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