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How a BiH Media Company Got On the US Sanctions List

Formerly synonymous with free journalism with a critical view of social events in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Alternativna televizija (Alternative Television) from Banja...

Media in Kurdish threatened with extinction in Turkey

In the World Press Freedom Index of the Reporters Without Borders (RSF), Turkey ranks 153rd out of 180 countries. While the media...

Media in Croatia: a cause for alarm

by Giovanni Vale | Zagreb, 11 May 2016 Following a five day mission in Zagreb, the Human Rights Commissioner of the Council of Europe, Nils Muižnieks, provides...

Political Pressures, Economic Insecurity Biggest Threats to Media Freedom in the Balkans

Fear of loosing jobs, politics, and self-censorship are suffocating media freedoms - those are the most common thoughts of dozens of prominent journalists from...

Freedom from Expression

While this year’s country reports by the European Commission on enlargement countries highlight some successes in other areas, the verdict on freedom of expression...

SEENPM Holds General Assembly in Tirana

Representatives of fourteen member organisations of SEENPM met on 30 October in Tirana for an annual meeting of the General Assembly.  As the highest...

Frequent attacks against journalists who criticize Macedonian government

It is a hard time for journalists in Macedonia. Threats against their lives are common, the society is divided, and so is the media....
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Challenging Disinformation by Empowering Albanian Students

F.A.C.T.S. project sparked critical thinking and civic engagement among Albanian students. The F.A.C.T.S. project, run by the Albanian Center...

It Can Be Different: Stories of Young People from BiH Media Deserts

Through the project “It Can Be Different”, magazine eTrafika teaches young people from communities in Bosnia and Herzegovina without journalists or media...

Tech Giants, Social Media, and Journalism: To Leave or to Stay?

When asked whether we should even be on social media, Victoire Rio responds by asking in return: “We must stay, because this...

The Media Landscape of the Western Balkans and Turkey: Stuck in Transition

If journalism is to survive, it must not only defend itself legally and through unions, but also revolutionarily redefine its role, format,...