RSS news import

News related to press and media freedom coming from selected and reliable sources. News items are gathered and listed via an RSS feed

Turin: Four months for the reporter who followed the “No Tav” demonstrators

The reporter was held culpable for assisting in trespassing through having entered the offices of a company. The events took place in August 2012. On the 9th April 2018 the Tribunal of Turin sentenced the journalist, Davide Falcioni to four months of detention for having assisted in trespassing. He had been tried in October 2015

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

Bari: Bank manager asks for 750 000 euro damages from Gazzetta

The two journalists, the author and the editor, received a demand for compensation in relation to three articles claimed to be defamatory. Giuseppe Pignataro manager of the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, asked for 750,000 euro damages from the journalist of Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno, Massimiliano Scagliarini and the editor Giuseppe De Tomaso for having published on

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

Brescello: Stone thrown against the car of the TG2 news team

Giammarco Sicuro and his technicians were shooting video of several buildings confiscated from criminal gangs. The windscreen was damaged On the 29th March 2018 in Brescello unknown persons damaged with a large rock thrown probably from behind a hedge, the car in which the journalist Giammarco Sicuro sent by TG2 and his technicians had reached

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

Ezio Mauro and Domenico Cacopardo found not guilty for the articles about the town of Rubi

The decision of the Court of Appeal of Catania has been taken eight years after the event. They had been sued in 2010 for defamation in print, by the administration of the municipality of Letojanni (Messina). At their first trial, the journalists Ezio Mauro, former editor-in-chief of La Repubblica and Domenico Cacopardo were each sentenced

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

Threatened Journalists: Three Serbian reporters visit Ossigeno

The winners of the 2017Journalism Award for Tolerance visited Rome accompanied by the OSCE Mission to Serbia, to learn about best practice. On the 23rd April the president and staff of Ossigeno per l’Informazione hosted in Rome, Jovana Pali, Janya Lanar and Tamara Tankosi, the three Serbian journalists winners in 2017 of the Journalism Award

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

Sarah Harrison: It's not the journalist's role to decide what the public can see

An exclusive interview with former Wikileaks editor Sarah Harrison GAMEC HANGER is the annual conference of the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom on 28 -29 May 2018 in Leipzig. Its theme is the controversial role of new technology in the future of media freedom. To inform debate, ECPMF is publishing several articles. In an interview with former WikiLeaks editor Sarah Harrison, who helped whistleblower Edward Snowden to escape to Russia, ECPMF discusses the issues raised in her new book “Women, whistleblowing and WikiLeaks“, published by OR Books. Sarah Harrison. Photo: OR Books You described WikiLeaks as a ’baby hatch’ – like…

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

Sarah Harrison: It's not the journalist's role to decide what the public can see

An exclusive interview with former Wikileaks editor Sarah Harrison GAME CHANGER is the annual conference of the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom on 28 -29 May 2018 in Leipzig. Its theme is the controversial role of new technology in the future of media freedom. To inform debate, ECPMF is publishing several articles. In an interview with former WikiLeaks editor Sarah Harrison, who helped whistleblower Edward Snowden to escape to Russia, ECPMF discusses the issues raised in her new book “Women, whistleblowing and WikiLeaks“, published by OR Books. Sarah Harrison (photo: Oliver Abraham/ OR Books) You described WikiLeaks as a ’baby hatch’…

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

Sarah Harrison: It's not the journalist's role to decide what the public can see

An exclusive interview with former Wikileaks editor Sarah Harrison GAME CHANGER is the annual conference of the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom on 28 -29 May 2018 in Leipzig. Its theme is the controversial role of new technology in the future of media freedom. To inform debate, ECPMF is publishing several articles. In an interview with former WikiLeaks editor Sarah Harrison, who helped whistleblower Edward Snowden to escape to Russia, ECPMF discusses the issues raised in her new book “Women, whistleblowing and WikiLeaks“, published by OR Books. Sarah Harrison (photo: Oliver Abraham/ OR Books) You described WikiLeaks as a ’baby hatch’…

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

How AI will define the future of news

By James Ball, this article was first published by the Ethical Journalism Network There are two paths ahead in the future of journalism, and both of them are shaped by artificial intelligence. Robot, courtesy of Ethical Journalism Network The first is a future in which newsrooms and their reporters are robust: thanks to the use of artificial intelligence, high-quality reporting has been enhanced. Not only do AI scripts manage the writing of simple day-to-day articles such as companies’ quarterly earnings updates, they also monitor and track masses of data for outliers, flagging these to human reporters to investigate. Beyond business journalism, comprehensive sports…

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

How AI will define the future of news

By James Ball, this article was first published by the Ethical Journalism Network There are two paths ahead in the future of journalism, and both of them are shaped by artificial intelligence. Robot, courtesy of Ethical Journalism Network The first is a future in which newsrooms and their reporters are robust: thanks to the use of artificial intelligence, high-quality reporting has been enhanced. Not only do AI scripts manage the writing of simple day-to-day articles such as companies’ quarterly earnings updates, they also monitor and track masses of data for outliers, flagging these to human reporters to investigate. Beyond business journalism, comprehensive sports…

Source: European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Powered by eZ Publish™ CMS Open Source Web Content Management. Copyright © 1999-2014 eZ Systems AS (except where otherwise noted). All rights reserved.