European Endowment for Democracy (EED) and International Media Support (IMS) would like to invite EFJ to an all-day Turkey media development stakeholder coordination meeting on 17 May.
EFJ Annual Meeting in Bucharest #EFJBucharest17
The EFJ is encouraging to register for the Dataharvest/EIJC, the European Investigative Journalism Conference organised by Journalismfund.eu, the most relevant networking event for investigative and data journalists in Europe. The European Investigative Journalism & Dataharvest Conference, organised by Journalismfund.eu, will take place in Mechelen, Belgium from 19 – 21 May for the most interesting edition yet! #EIJC17 & Dataharvest offers hugely inspiring investigative journalism cases, ample opportunities to meet interesting colleagues and coders, and tons of training sessions to brush up your skills hands-on. Check out our preliminary programme. This is the one conference you do not want to miss! Register now. Also don’t forget to take a look at our pre-conference activities on the 18th of May! – Come to the conference…
Institute of International Studies at Charles University, Heinrich Böll Stiftung and Goethe Institut are organizing the 3rd Prague Populism Conference on 22 and 23 May 2017. The event will take place at Goethe Institut in Prague. The conference will deal with theoretical aspects of populism; presentation of empirical studies on issues such as media strategies of populist politicians; movements or parties; the way the media covers populism; the interlinkages between the media and political leaders; and the implications of media coverage on the political space. There will be a special part dedicated to comparative analyses of individual EU states with…
The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) is organizing a workshop about best practices on organising and defending self-employed workers. Speakers will discuss new protection for self-employed workers in Europe and talk about the reality and the trade union challenges in Poland. Topics on the agenda also include the opportunities and obstacles for the trade union movement in the organisation of self-employed workers, like organising workers from platforms (for example the case of UBER in France) and organising self-employed workers in the artistic sectors in Finland. Speakers will be mapping opportunities and barriers for trade unions to organise self-employed workers and…
The ETUC is convening an Extraordinary Enlarged Steering Committee, for Trade Union Leaders only, to coordinate and discuss on: • The European Pillar of Social Rights • The White Paper on the future of Europe and the Reflection documents linked to it • AOB
Trump has been dominating headlines, but not much has been said about the rise of media moguls and business tycoons here in Europe. Polls show that in the Czech Republic, oligarch and finance minister Andrek Babis’ populist party ‘ANO’ (‘Yes!’) is set to win the legislative elections by a landslide. Babiš is a politically powerful billionaire and owner of media companies and a large agribusiness conglomerate whose authoritarian politics, combined with control over media, would be a serious threat to democracy. Join CEO for a short film screening and discussion to find out about what is happening in Czech Republic…
MMDC International Conference Freedom of the Media and Protection of Journalists in Russia Organizers: Mass Media Defense center, Glasnost Defense Foundation Moscow, May 25, 2017 9 30 - Registration of Participants 10 00 - 10 15. Opening remarks. Galina Arapova, MMDC director, Alexey Simonov, GDF president, Nadezda Azhgikhina, EFJ vice president. Introduction of participants. 10 15 – 12 00. Legal framework of media freedom and its implementation in Russia. Moderator: Nadezda Azhgikhina Speaker : Galina Arapova, MMDC, Tumas Misakyan, lawyer, Yury Kazakov, Public Chamber for Media Complains. Participants: Mikhail Afanasiev, Focus, Abakan, Oleg Shevtsov, Mir Belogorya, Belgorod, Dmitry Polyanin, Oblastnaya Gazeta,…
The journalism practice training is jointly organised by the Croatian Journalists' Association and the EFJ, in the framework of the Media Against Hate project. More information here.
from Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung European Union
Date and venue The ETUC Mid-term Conference will take place from 30 to 31 May, 2017, in Rome. Agenda • Panel discussions. • Examination and adoption of the Declaration(s). • Amendments to the Constitution. - Examination of the Ad-Hoc Constitution Committee activity report. - Adoption of the amendments to the Constitution
Jornadas abiertas a la profesión V CONGRESO DEL SINDICATO DE PERIODISTAS DE ANDALUCIA, SPA-FeSP 'Pequeñas historias y grandes explicaciones' Rectorado de la Universidad de Málaga, 2 y 3 de junio, 2017 PROGRAMA PROVISIONAL VIERNES 2 DE JUNIO DE 2017 16:30/ Recepción e inscripciones. 17:00/ Apertura. - Antonio García Galindo. Vicerrector de Política Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga. - Inmaculada Postigo Gómez. Decana Facultad de Ciencias de la Comunicación de la Universidad de Málaga. - Lola Fernández Palenzuela. Secretaria General del Sindicato de Periodistas de Andalucía (SPA-FeSP), miembro de la Comisión de Género de la Federación Internacional de Periodistas (FIP).…