The 10th Forum of Mediterranean Women Journalists will take place from 25 to 28 November, starting in Bari and continuing in Lecce
The 10^ edition of the FMWJ is entitled ‘Disarming. Disarming. Non-violent women in struggle”, will open on 25 November (International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women) at 10:00 in the Aldo Cossu lecture hall at the University of Bari. Numerous authorities will be in attendance. There is great anticipation surrounding the expected attendance […]
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Mona Abuamara is the new voice of Palestine in Rome
There is great anticipation for the Ambassador, who will be the keynote speaker at the inaugural Forum of Mediterranean Journalists event on 25 November at 10:00 a.m. in the University of Bari’s auditorium. She will then participate in the panel discussion, ‘Silencing the Truth: The Massacre of Journalists in Palestine’. When Mona Abuamara took office […]
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European Press Prize 2026: Instagram Live for clarification on the competition
The prestigious journalism award is officially open. To help potential participants, an Instagram Live event entitled “Lunch with the European Press Prize” will be held on Thursday 13 November at 12:00 CET. The new edition of the European Press Prize, which aims to promote excellent, independent and courageous journalism in Europe, is now underway. According […]
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Behind Bars: The Truth About Women in Prison
Antigone’s First Report tells the story of Italian women’s prisons. An invisible issue that challenges journalism and the principles of the Milan Charter For those who work in the media, reporting on prisons is a political act and a matter of civic responsibility. The Milan Charter on prison journalism, approved in 2017 by the Order […]
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Italy Backs Away from the EU’s Anti-SLAPP Directive
Despite appeals from the Order of Journalists and the Italian National Press Federation, the Meloni government has excluded the EU directive against frivolous lawsuits, effectively weakening press freedom. SLAPPs (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation) are legal actions brought against journalists for instrumental purposes. Here’s how they work in practice: politicians, businesspeople or white-collar workers who […]
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Women against the sacra corona unita: France 24 documentary
Among the protagonists of the reportage is also the creator of FMWJ, Marilù Mastrogiovanni, the voice that the mafia has failed to silence In the silence that often surrounds organised crime in Puglia, one voice has risen with courage, determination and clarity. It is that of Marilù Mastrogiovanni, investigative journalist and founder of the Forum […]
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Journalist Abu Akleh was murdered by an Israeli sniper
On 11 May 2022, Shireen Abu Akleh, a Palestinian-American journalist working for Al Jazeera, was killed by a shot to the head while covering an Israeli military operation in Jenin, in the West Bank. Known as the ‘voice of Palestine’, she was wearing a bulletproof vest with the word ‘PRESS’ clearly visible. Three years later, […]
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Women’s journalism nourishes life: we call for more space for new anti-patriarchal editorial models
Mastrogiovanni, founder of the Forum of Mediterranean Women Journalists: ‘Ethical journalism, the kind that wants to care for words and with words, must be protected as a form of social reproduction, for which women journalists once again take responsibility’ Protecting freedom of information means defending every aspect of democratic life, civil rights, human rights, environmental […]
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Turkey, detained 14 kurdish journalists: FMWJ demands immediate release and to stop “political genocide”
Today new police operations were carried out in many cities this morning: Diyarbakır, Istanbul, Batman, Mardin and Şirnak. The Minister Ali Yerlikaya announced that 231 people were detained in house raids conducted in 30 provinces. Many kurdish writers and journalists were also taken into custody in the operations, including Erdoğan Alayumat (journalist), Tuğce Yılmaz (journalist), […]
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The 9th Forum of Mediterranean Women Journalists in Bari on 25-26 November and in Lecce on the 27th
The work of the ninth edition of the FMWJ will open on 25 November (International Day Against Violence Against Women) at 9:30 a.m. in the Aula don Tonino Bello of the University of Bari in the presence of Rector Bronzini, President Capone and other authorities The Forum of Women Journalists of the Mediterranean (FMWJ), since […]
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Call for proposals: journalism and education in the age of disinformation
Ahead of the 13 December congress in Barcelona, the Italian-Spanish-Portuguese consortium ‘XQ the News’ launches a ‘call for proposals’ aimed at students and teachers The consortium ‘XQ EUJOY: European Youth Journalism. The Why of the News’, made up of the Spanish publishing companies Octaedro and Fundació Periodisme Plural, the Portuguese ASPEA and the Italian Dataninja […]
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Justice for journalist Nagihan Akarsen
On October 4, 2022, Kurdish reporter Nagihan Akarsel was killed with 11 bullets. The material perpetrator has been convicted but an international initiative calls for its recognition as political feminicide by the Turkish state The work of the international initiative committee ‘Justice for Nagihan Akarsel’ started a year ago. The year before, on 4 October […]
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USA and Russia prisoners’ swap: Who is the main winner?
di Oksana Chelysheva On August 1 on the initiative from the USA a big prisoners´swap involving 24 people occured. While Russia released 16 people whose only crime was their dissenting views, they got back 8 people, including Vadim Krasikov who Germany agreed to release despite their initial rejection of such a step towards a man […]
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Journalism is not a crime. Appeal for the release of Niloofar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi
The two journalists sentenced in Iran to 13 and 12 years in prison just for doing their job were among the first to give news after the death of Mahsa Amini Thirteen and twelve years of imprisonment. This is the verdict to which the Iranian journalists Niloofar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi were sentenced on October […]
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November 22-23-24, 2023, mixed mode, in-person and online, on FAD platform
November 22-23-24, 2023, mixed mode, in-person and online, on FAD platform Concept The Forum of Mediterranean women journalists/eighth edition launches the theme #AIjournalism #promptjournalism #promptknowledge which refers to the momentous challenge that has been thrown by artificial intelligence to journalism and the knowledge production sector. The title “WOmaNchine learning” refers, with a play on assonance […]
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Boldrini: “Female journalists thorn in the side for clans.”
The message of support from the President of the Chamber of Deputies to the Forum of Women Journalists of the Mediterranean and the international network of women created with it Dear friends, I cannot attend in person, but I would like to convey my full support for the second Mediterranean Women Journalists Forum. The shocking […]
ReadCorecom Puglia, again this year with women journalists from the Mediterranean
In the second edition, female journalists from Malta, Tunisia, Egypt, Kosovo, Turkey, Kurdistan, Italy by Marilù Mastrogiovanni Once again this year Bari and Lecce will be a hub of ideas, proposals, projects and visions told by the living voices of female journalists from all shores of the Mediterranean. The Apulia Region, of course, historically and […]
ReadDaphne: breakthrough in Malta investigation
Started at dawn, police operations are reportedly still ongoing on the island: ten, so far, arrested for the murder of the Maltese journalist Ten arrested so far on suspicion of being the material perpetrators of the bombing. Almost two months after the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia, the journalist and activist investigating relations between politics, […]
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