Press freedom: touchdown on European journalism

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You’ll hear perturbed murmurings on whether Europe’s press freedom is being endangered via its civil society nodes or blog republics. The latest reporters without borders survey lists France and Italy in its top forty. The violet wave activists in Italy, who went on a 100% anti-Berlusconi media charge in late 2009, still feel they haven’t been heard out. In other news, press correspondents are fleeing the corridors of Brussels. So where does the future of information lie - online?

ANALYSIS Europe falls in press freedom rankings

Europe falls in press freedom rankings

If the old continent believes it still represents the paradigm of press freedom, then it is in for a rude awakening: in the worldwide rankings of freedom of the press published by Reporters Without Borders, many European nations are in a state of free fall. Yet a defence organises for what Kant called 'freedom of the pen'

by Anna Franca Didonna @ // 01/04/10

silvio berlusconi, european media, journalism, rome, anna politkovskaya, wire-tapping , media, politics, society, nicolas sarkozy

INTERVIEW Julien Frisch: quick chat about blogging in Europe

Julien Frisch: quick chat about blogging in Europe

Believe in the European concept? Fantasise about a more transparent bureaucracy in Brussels? The answer is to blog. Well, this German does. The Berlin-based editor of bloggingportal.eu, a European blog portal, predicts what online European news will bring us in the coming years

by Emmanuel Haddad @ // 31/03/10

european parliament, european institutions, journalism, eurogeneration, european commission, citizen journalism, censorship

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