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Borrometi: “Whoever says that the mafia doesn’t exist condemns me to death”

Borrometi’s appeal to journalists during the conference on the 11th April in Rome. “You are not alone” said the presidents of FNSI, Ordine and Usigrai announcing initiatives in Ragusa and Syracuse. “I ask you – Borrometi said – to come to my area and repeat today’s Rome conference, to make it clear, also to our

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

Paolo Borrometi: How a mafian plan has been discovered and thwarted

Several legal phone-tappings revealed that the businessmen and a gang leader, whose deals had been exposed, planned for two months how to kill the journalist. They spoke about how engage a team of five to ten hit men and how and where to hide the killers at the end of the job. For months they

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

Murder of Ján Kuciak: MEPs urge action to protect journalists across the EU

Murder of Ján Kuciak: MEPs urge action to protect journalists across the EU European Pariliament press release by Ján Jakubov Resolution: The EU must better protect journalists and whistle-blowers and Slovakia must ensure thorough, independent and international investigation into the murder of Ján Kuciak. 27 year old investigative journalist Ján Kuciak. (photo with permission of Aktuality.sk) A non-legislative resolution was approved by the European Parliament on 18 April, 2018 by 573 votes in favour to 27 against, with 47 abstentions. The Parliament strongly condemns the murder of Slovak investigative journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kušnírová and suggests renaming Parliament’s traineeship for journalists…

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

Murder of Ján Kuciak: MEPs urge action to protect journalists across the EU

European Pariliament press release by Ján Jakubov Resolution: The EU must better protect journalists and whistle-blowers and Slovakia must ensure thorough, independent and international investigation into the murder of Ján Kuciak. 27 year old investigative journalist Ján Kuciak. (photo with permission of Aktuality.sk) A non-legislative resolution was approved by the European Parliament on 18 April, 2018 by 573 votes in favour to 27 against, with 47 abstentions. The Parliament strongly condemns the murder of Slovak investigative journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kušnírová and suggests renaming Parliament’s traineeship for journalists after him. MEPs called on Slovak authorities to deploy all necessary resources…

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

Murder of Ján Kuciak: MEPs urge action to protect journalists across the EU

European Pariliament press release by Ján Jakubov Resolution: The EU must better protect journalists and whistle-blowers and Slovakia must ensure thorough, independent and international investigation into the murder of Ján Kuciak. 27 year old investigative journalist Ján Kuciak. (photo with permission of Aktuality.sk) A non-legislative resolution was approved by the European Parliament on 18 April, 2018 by 573 votes in favour to 27 against, with 47 abstentions. The Parliament strongly condemns the murder of Slovak investigative journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kušnírová and suggests renaming Parliament’s traineeship for journalists after him. MEPs called on Slovak authorities to deploy all necessary resources…

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

Bisceglieviva: An editor blanks out a blog and replaces the editorial staff

On grounds that the picture was “harmful to our image”. This was decided after a warning countersigned by the editor-in-chief. This is censorship activated by external pressure, the blogger says On the March 2nd 2018 the publishing company in Puglia, “Innovanews Srl” has blacked out the blog, “Ste u maere a Veschegghie” (“There is the sea

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

A bullet for Federica Angeli who will be again a key witness

  On the 19th April 2018 there will be a session of the trial in which the Spada family members of Ostia (Rome) are accused of attempted murder. The journalist was an eye-witness. Since then she has been living with a police escort. A few days before the trial – in which she will confirm

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

Bulgaria, freedom of the press at the time of the EU presidency

Bulgaria currently holds its first, historic presidency of the Council of Ministers of the EU: in these very same months, however, the main international observers have continued to place the country as the last in Europe for freedom of the media

Source: Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News

Bulgaria, freedom of the press at the time of the EU presidency

Bulgaria currently holds its first, historic presidency of the Council of Ministers of the EU: in these very same months, however, the main international observers have continued to place the country as the last in Europe for freedom of the media

Source: Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News

MOUs promise nothing; media mergers require close scrutiny by the FCC for their impacts on Latinas/os

Mergers have become an increasing frequent part of the American media landscape, and alongside this consolidation interest groups have sprung up to challenge them on the grounds of minority representation, In new work, Jason A. Smith and Randy Abreu take a close look at the effects on Latina/o representation of the 2011 merger between Comcast and NBC Universal. They write that while the memorandum […]

Source: Media Policy Project
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