BAD NEWS from Italy | Ossigeno Newsletter 11 November 2018
This special-edition newsletter focuses on the events organised by Ossigeno for the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists in Rome and Brussels
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Ossigeno has confirmed 4 other threats on 31 October 2018
The journalists Antonino Monteleone (Lazio), Filippo Mele (Basilicata) and Stefania Petyx and cameraman (Sicily) have all been victims. From 1st January to 31st October 2018 Ossigeno has verified and documented 226 unjustifiable attacks of the same type.
Scanzano Jonico. Filippo Mele under police protection
A constant guard is required for Filippo Mele the doctor and journalist who received an anonymous envelope containing a bullet after the Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno published his accounts of an anti-Mafia blitz.
Ossigeno and Federica Angeli: the Italian solution
ANSA news article about the conference held on 6 November at the Italian Cultural Institute in Brussels about threatened journalists in Belgium, France and Italy
Vito Crimi: the government commits to protect reporters
The Undersecretary for the publishing sector presented the government’s measures for free, plural and independent journalism.
Luigi Gaetti: Let us return a dignified life to journalists
For the Undersecretary of the Interior, Luigi Gaetti, the intimidating and Mafia-style attacks combined with job insecurity undermine freedom of expression “To create real freedom we must give journalists their just recognition. We can not allow young people who write important articles to be paid in small change. We must meet their needs, because job […]
Morcellini: educating for free information
The Agcom Commissioner proposes to focus on youth and on schools to regain the value of journalism activity
Senator Grasso confirms his commitment against the irresponsible complaints
Senator Pietro Grasso – Oxygen’s honorary member for information – confirmed his commitment at the Ossigeno conference “Journalists attacked, guilty unpunished”, held in Rome, at Palazzo Madama, the Italian Senate, on the initiative of Ossigeno per l’Informazione and the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) of Leipzig under the auspices of UNESCO, to […]
Spadari (the Lazio Order of Journalists): citizens and journalists united
The President of the Regional Order of Journalists participated at the Ossigeno Conference in the Italian Senate, remarking that, “The step- change is useful but not sufficient”
Albanese (National Italian Press Federation Fnsi): journalism performs a social role
Michele Albanese, the Calabrian reporter who lives under police escort thanked Ossigeno for its work. Then came the sting in the tail for the Government: no cuts to publishing.