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In preparation for his participation in a panel discussion hosted by Demos about the future of artificial intelligence, The Director of the Media Policy Project and the Director of the LSE Truth, Trust and Technology Commission, Professor Charlie Beckett, prepared the following notes. You can follow read more about the discussion by searching #futureofai on Twitter. I think that AI […]
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Media Policy Project
38 Nobel Laureates wrote an open letter to the Turkish president to call for the release of writers and intellectuals imprisoned after the 2016 attempted coup. Explicit mention is made of journalists Nazlı Ilıcak and brothers Ahmet and Mehmet Altan
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
By Nadia Bellardi
Radio and TV studios across Switzerland recently opened their doors to the public to explain how they work, and why they believe it is important to reject the upcoming NoBillag initiative. On March 4th Swiss citizens will decide through a national vote whether to abolish the media licence fee, previously collected through the company Billag (hence the initiative’s name “NoBillag”). Should the initiative pass, it would make Switzerland the only European country without public service media.
Nadia Bellardi. Photo:Bellardi family
The current Swiss media system is made up of public service, private and community media, each sector with its…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
In Switzerland, friendships are being threatened by divisive debate surrounding the so-called ‘No Billag’ referendum. No Billag calls for the abolition of Switzerland’s annual compulsory licence fee for public service broadcasting – the bureaucracy that collects the fee is known as Billag – which currently costs every Swiss household 451 francs (385 euro) each year.
Martin Kraft, MJK54570 Stephan Ruß-Mohl (Frankfurter Buchmesse 2017), Die Größe von ECPMF, CC BY-SA 3.0
Opponents, who consider the payment unfair, want to scrap Billag altogether. However, the real target is the Swiss public broadcaster, SRG SSR, itself: an increasing number of citizens want…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
By Jane Whyatt
The fatal shooting of an investigative reporter and his fiancée at their home in Slovakia has shocked and outraged media freedom campaigners.
27 year old investigative journalist Ján Kuciak. (photo with permission of Aktuality.sk)
Twenty-seven-year old Ján Kuciak was shot in the chest and his partner in the head. Their bodies were found at the apartment they shared in the town of Velka Maca, where they had recently moved in together.
Ján Kuciak had been working to uncover evidence of tax fraud in big businesses. He worked for the news portal Actuality.sk, belonging to the Ringier Axel Springer media group.…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
By Emil Weber
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has on 13 February 2018 issued a judgement defending the right of a Ukrainian journalist to cover a demonstration in St. Petersburg during a G8 Summit.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg (photo: Nicoleon, Cour européenne des droits de l'homme, CC BY-SA 4.0)
Mr. Maksim Aleksandrovich Butkevich, who had volunteered to cover the summit for the Libertarian Information and News Collective (LINC), was photographing an “anti-globalism” march in Nevskiy Avenue in St. Petersburg on 16 July 2006. The demonstration was considered unlawful by the authorities as they had not…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
By Martin Hoffmann
Austria is in discussion about the “fake news” demonisations from Vice-Chancellor Strache against the ORF moderator, Armin Wolf. More than a personal feud is behind this: the independence of the public broadcaster is at stake.
Austria: “Since the FPÖ politicians are part of the national government, the attacks on independent journalists are drastically increasing”
Austria’s Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache announced it, already before the forming of government in December: “they want to secure optimisation at the Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF), this would also apply to the little objective reporting”. With “sounds interesting”, the announcement of the FPÖ man was roundly answered…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
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European Youth Press
Ossigeno has decided to make them public so that other organizations can verify their validity and intervene with the necessary readiness Ossigeno per l’Informazione is aware of many more alarms than it is able to accommodate. They are alarms that concern serious violations of freedom of expression, are reports that require an answer, a verification,
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
The aggravating factor of the Mafia method was challenged to the man who hit Piervincenzi because he intended to intimidate all journalists who have the audacity to ask questions The main analogies between the aggression of Bari to Maria Grazia Mazzola and that of Ostia to Daniele Pievincenzi and Edoardo Anselmi are these: the type
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione