Entries by Alberto Spampinato

Prerogatives to journalists needed to protect them, the Italian Anti-Mafia Attorney says

Moreover every time a vexatious lawsuit is dismissed, a trial of the accuser for slander should be started –  Crimes against reporters requires specialized prosecutors  OSSIGENO 19 May 2019 – This interview with the Italian National Anti-Mafia Attorney Federico Cafiero De Raho is taken from the Report “Italy. So much mafia, so little news“, produced […]

OSCE and the Italian example on protection of journalists

The OCSE Representative Harlem Desir proposed to establish mixed guarantee committees in each country. Italy illustrated what already exists Italy example on protection of journalists made a great impression at the international conference organized on the 12thApril  2019 in Vienna on the theme “Journalists under attack: a threat to press freedom”.  The OSCE representative for media freedom, […]

Jan Kuciak was tailed. An Italian scoop

This fact was revealed by Italian RAI TV news Tg1‘s correspondent Maria Grazia Mazzola who published the photos and the hitherto unpublished content of a phone call Jan Kuciak had been tailed, spied upon, and secretly photographed with a telephoto lens in the days preceding his barbaric assassination and that of his girlfriend, Martina Kusnirova, […]

10 years of Ossigeno on the Unexplored Continent

The Observatory returned to Palermo where it took its first steps, following the path and with the companions of the first expedition in the world of threats to newspapers and journalists. Ossigeno per l’Informazione celebrated, on Thursday 13th December 2018, in Palermo its first ten years of activity. It did it in the simplest and […]

University courses for observers of threats to journalists

The following proposal of Ossigeno was formulated on December 14th 2018 in Palermo, by Alberto Spampinato, in his speech, during the IX National Meeting of the courses of Communication Science Undergraduate and post-graduate education has the task of training, for the information world, practitioners with the necessary technical-professional skills. At the same time, it has […]