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North Macedonia: From Formal Progress to Democratic Fragility in Digital Regulation

Although North Macedonia has made formal progress in digital and media regulation, including the adoption of laws on personal data protection and...

Türkiye: Urgent Need to Reset Digital Governance

Digital governance and media freedom in Türkiye are under severe and sustained strain, shaped by a long-term shift toward state control over...

Serbia: Urgent Reform Needed Amid Rising Digital Governance Risks

To address salient forms of pressure against independent media, weakening of democratic governance principles, and violations of human rights, an urgent and...

Media Activism Handbook: Good Practices in Civic Engagement

Media and communications today represent a critical area of modern political struggles. Issues such as editorial policy influence, ownership concentration, information security...

Regional Collection: Risk Assessments of Digital Platform and Media Regulation in SEE

How are digital platforms and online media being regulated across Southeast Europe? What risks do current approaches create for media freedom, the...

REGIONAL OVERVIEW: Aware but Largely Disengaged Citizens

In this second cycle of the research within the project Future of Media, we examined perceptions of media and democracy among media...

RESEARCH TURKEY: Monopolized Ownership, Fragile Trust, and Audience Disengagement

The second phase of the Future of the Media research engaged focus groups with citizens in Istanbul and Mardin, and media workers...

RESEARCH SERBIA: Media as an Instrument of Power and Capital

The overall situation in the Serbian media landscape has been assessed as extremely poor. The media are not perceived as free, and...

RESEARCH NORTH MACEDONIA: Ethics, Trust, and Public Interest Should Prevail in the Digital Age

In recent years, the media sphere in North Macedonia has recorded slow progress, due less to systemic reforms and more to partial...

RESEARCH MONTENEGRO: Information Overload, Declining Quality, and Dissatisfied Citizens

Montenegro is facing serious anti-democratic and anti-European trends that directly affect the state of the media and journalism. Despite the formal institutional...

RESEARCH KOSOVO: Journalism under Economic, Political, and Digital pressure

This second phase of research The Future of Media in Kosovo examines how the country’s media landscape is experienced by those who...

RESEARCH BiH: Diversifying Media, Declining Journalism

This continuation of the Future of Media study builds on previous findings through analysis of qualitative data collected through focus groups with...
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Montenegro’s Digital Services Law: Getting Implementation Right for Human Rights

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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