Why others report many less threats in Italy
The interview released by Ossigeno to be included in the final Mapping Media Freedom’ reports project from 2014-2018 published last days
Entries by Alberto Spampinato
“A new example of the dramatic condition of the Italian media”
The international journalist union defines it as such after the neo-Fascist aggression at Verano Cemetery. The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe says “Arrest them”. The aggression on the 7th January 2019 in Rome, at the Verano cemetery (read here), resonated abroad, having an impact even stronger than in Italy, where there is still […]
Ossigeno in Brussels. How to convince the sceptics
Speech delivered by Alberto Spampinato, director of Ossigeno on Tuesday 6th November 2018, at the Italian Cultural Institute in Brussels,
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 […]
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
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.