Italy. The last Ossigeno’s monitoring figures
During August- October 2018 were reported 97 serious attacks against 179 giornalists and other media operators to hinder freedom of expression
Entries by Alberto Spampinato
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 […]
The Mafia method: the new judicial approach is strengthened
The decision of the Bari Public Prosecutor to recognise the aggravating circumstances of the woman who attacked the journalist Maria Grazia Mazzola joins the similar ones of the Rome and Catania Public Prosecutors’ Offices.
The punch to Maria Grazia Mazzola also regarded as a Mafia-style offence
The decision was taken by the Bari prosecutor, Lidia Giorgio and refers to the attack on the RAI correspondent on the 9th February 2018 in Bari.
Why is the deputy prime minister Luigi Di Maio attacking journalists
It has to be asked if it is not a pre-meditated provocation in order to gain advantages in the bigger game with publishers. The editorial by Alberto Spampinato
Impunity. Good news and unkept commitments
An assessment and some reflections following the Oxygen Conference on 22nd October for the UN World Day to end impunity for crimes against journalists.
Mario Ciancio, the newspapers, the Mafia and the pure publisher
The judicial seizure of newspapers and tv stations owned by him is an unprecedented event that raises above all a problem of employment but also of publishing formula.
Ossigeno is assisting two journalists in criminal defamation proceedings
Carlo D’Adamo and Roberto Sangiorgi have been sued for three articles for three articles about the toxic sludge stored a San Giovanni in Persiceto published in 2014 by Controcorrente.Globalist.it
Retaliations against Bolzoni after the scoop about Montante
From 2015 until 2018 the journalist Attilio Bolzoni has faced intimidations, retaliations and serious calumnies from people who have sought to block him by instilling fear, isolating him and discrediting his personal and professional reputation to make him falsely appear as a partisan journalist and even linked to the Mafia.
The Bolzoni Case: An exemplary story which encapsulates all the problems
Various clues suggested that in Sicily, among the big white knights of the anti-Mafia there were profiteers and swindlers, individuals and organisations respected and revered for their public commitment in favour of law abidance, who secretly commercially exploited their image and their influence to obtain finance and tenders, to build a career, to exchange favours […]