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This newsletter presents the last news originally published by Ossigeno per l’Informazione about attacks and violations of freedom of the expression and the media in Italy as well as in other countries. Also included are initiatives to tackle the issue with a review from international organisations in the field of freedom of expression Top news Dunja
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
In this blogpost, the Director of the Media Policy Project and the Director of the LSE Truth, Trust and Technology Commission, Professor Charlie Beckett, reflects on the implications of Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg in front of two US Congressional committees. If committees were a good way to change the world then they’d have more power. They don’t. So don’t be surprised if the […]
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Media Policy Project
Journey: Journalism Bootcamp is an intensive 10-day summer course in journalism designed for both Czech and foreign students. It will take place on August 4 – 14, 2018 in Prague, Czech Republic. Application deadline is May 6, 2018 and you can apply online by submitting this form. About the program The program is […]
The post Journey: Journalism Bootcamp in Prague, August 2018 appeared first on European Youth Press.
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European Youth Press
The free legal aid office of Ossigeno has decided to provide legal aid to the reporter Mauro D’Agostino to whom the publisher of the online newspaper CorriereQuotidiano.it is not providing this form of assistance even though the article which the well-known company of male clothing is disputing has been published by its newspaper (read here
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Preventive confiscation of 7 files linked to an article in CorriereQuotidiano.it. Dispute with the author. Damages requested from the editor On the 17th November 2017 the Catania police under instruction from the Tribunale of L’Aquila carried out a preventive confiscation of seven files containing images of the pay packets of directors of the companies Brioni
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Hungary faces the third consecutive term of Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party and probably even worse crackdowns on media than already before. ECPMF spoke with investigative journalist Anita Kőműves about the future of independent media in Hungary.
(photo by Anita Komuves, Atlatszo.hu)
What does Orbán's electoral success mean for media freedom in Hungary?
The space for independent media has already started shrinking again in Hungary, just two days after the latest electoral victory for Viktor Orbán. The publisher of 80-year-old daily Magyar Nemzet has announced this morning [10 April 2018] that the newspaper’s last day of publication will be tomorrow. Neither the print…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
As part of a series of interviews with LSE Faculty on themes related to the Truth, Trust and Technology Commission, Dr Rodolfo Leyva talks to LSE MSc student Jack Marks about politics online, ‘slacktivism’ and to what extent social media contributes to materialism. JM: You’ve written a lot about the concept of Slacktivism. Could you explain what Slacktivism is and what its implications are? RL: […]
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Media Policy Project
“We’ll throw acid in your face” was how they threatened on Facebook the journalist Claudia Marra after the cancellation of a live broadcast with the RAI2 programme I Fatti Vostri. Since the 27th February 2018 the journalist Claudia Marra, special correspondent of the RAI2 news programme I Fatti Vostri is under the protection of officers
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Giusy Cavallo and Michele Finizio pushed and shoved in order to force them to suspend filming and taking photographs. A mobile phone destroyed. The attack was reported. On the 15th March 2018 at Tolve in the province of Potenza in an area where a wind farm is under construction, the journalists Giusy Cavallo and Michele
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Giuseppe Bianco was in his car outside his house. The reporter of Il Roma was examining the possible infiltration of organised crime in the recent local elections. In Arzano, in the province of Naples, on the 24th March 2018 the journalist Giuseppe Bianco, correspondent of the daily newspaper, Il Roma, whilst he was in his
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione