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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 […]

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), […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

At Forum 2017 the journalist, a former Egypt correspondent, reconstructed the case of the young researcher killed at Caito: an affair that, after two years, is still full of question marks Among the themes addressed at the Mediterranean Women Journalists Forum 2017 was the commitment to the search for truth: truth for Daphne Caruana Galizia, […]

“We need to witness presence to those who have great civic passion”: FNSI president’s speech at Forum 2017 “The attack against freedom of information are the newspapers that are multiplying in the world,” Beppe Giulietti, president of the National Federation of Italian Press, reminded the second Mediterranean Women Journalists Forum, stressing that “we cannot look […]

Patriarchal systems of power are based on violent practices of coercing bodies, going so far as to suppress them if perceived as rebellious. That’s also why with a multi-voiced score the women journalists called for #TruthforDaphne By Paola Zaccaria* A trans-Mediterranean, feminist and anti-violence oper/action was staged in Bari and Lecce that is absolutely unmissable […]

The 4th Ronchi dei Legionari Journalism Festival will focus on the risks taken by those who pursue the truth with passion and a sense of duty; June 9, 2018 award presentation An award to continue to honor the memory of a woman whom only death, a brutal one, managed to separate from the discovery of […]

by Marilù Mastrogiovanni There is a place that for the past two years has been a free zone of confrontation and dialogue between female journalists living on opposite shores of Mare nostrum. This place is the Forum of Mediterranean Women Journalists. Which for us is a sea that unites, and not divides. A sea that […]

View in pdf: SALUTE MINISTER SPERANZA_forum of Mediterranean women journalists-1 Altri panel UK confiscates passport from Zaina Erhaim Acquitted Omar Hashi Hassan. Who are the killers of Ilaria Alpi? Bonchino and Gernini’s live earthquake: when telling and being alive have the same priority Women in the media. A lustre ago Molendini: “The value of gender […]

By Gi.U.Li.A journalists   “Stop violence: the words to say it”: a manual, training courses, soon to be a website and app. A new project by the Association of GiULiA women journalists, which has been sponsored by Fnsi, Usigrai and Inpgi, to promote appropriate language in the media in cases of violence against women, so […]