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Croatia: hate speech on the rise but hope for change

In January 2018 an international delegation of press freedom organisation representatives visited Zagreb for the second time in two years to observe the state of media freedom in...

Fake News Busters in the Western Balkans

We present 3 dynamic and enterprising projects fighting disinformation in the Western Balkans. Global trend of fighting fake news, or rather disinformation and misinformation, is...

A New Wave of Censorship: Distributed Attacks on Expression and Press Freedom

Censorship has evolved. In both authoritarian and democratic contexts, new forms of censorship online are now carried out through distributed attacks on freedom of...

Report: Albanian media vs. Council of Europe standards

Albanian Media Institute launched the report “Albanian media scene vs. European Standards” on April 24 in Tirana. The report, supported financially by the Embassy...

The Invisible Curation of Content | Facebook’s News Feed and our Information Diets

The results of this report by World Wide Web Foundation illustrate how algorithms have been delegated the function of curating content in a way...

Trust in Ethical Journalism – The Key to Media Futures

If 2017 was the year the world finally woke up to the threat of disinformation and the way internet technologies are secretly and subtly...

Wikipedia online contest on Media Freedom

Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa (OBCT) launched an online contest to translate and improve articles on media freedom on Wikipedia.  by Rossella Vignola, OBCT A new project...

Research: The Digital Transition of Local News

Local news organisations are investing in a digital future, restructuring newsrooms and diversifying business models, a new Reuters Institute report finds. Local journalism remains valued and...

Serbian Public Broadcasters Need to Strengthen their Connection with Audience

Empowering the Program Council and self-regulation mechanisms could reshape public service broadcasters in Serbia, according to a new expert report. By Vanja Djuric Empowering the Program...

Daphne Project: 18 media continue investigations of murdered Maltese journalist

VALLETA, 16.04.2018. – Monday marks six months since the brutal assassination of our colleague Daphne Caruana Galizia, Malta’s foremost investigative journalist. For the past...

Challenging Work: Media reporting on organised crime and corruption in Bosnia, Kosovo and Serbia

A regional comparison of how media report on cases of organized crime and corruption in Bosnia, Kosovo and Serbia analysing the main obstacles faced...

Bulgaria 2017: State of Journalism and Freedom of Speech: Report

Four cases of physical attacks, three of serious verbal attacks and three "unjustified dismissals" of journalists were recorded by the Association of European Journalists...
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Montenegro’s Digital Services Law: Getting Implementation Right for Human Rights

Montenegro has adopted legislation preparing the ground for implementation of the EU’s Digital Services Act. Looking forward, the next period should focus...

SEENPM: Alpac Capital takeover of Adria News Network must be closely scrutinised 

We, the SEENPM member organisations in Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia, express deep concern over last week’s Alpac Capital’s...

Regional Editors’ Forum Held in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Cross-border reporting is no longer just one of the options in journalism; it is increasingly becoming essential for financial sustainability and investigative...

Who Governs What We See Online?

A new study maps platform power, regulation, and how news media depend on platforms for reach and visibility in Southeast Europe