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BiH: State Help to the Media – Precise Criteria Necessary

Without monitoring of media financing from public budgets, it is difficult to make conclusions regarding the legitimacy of these procedures and final effects in...

Local media financing in Republic of Srpska

The answer to this question seems rather simple since it contains 64 sub-contracts, which is exactly the number of municipalities and towns in the...

Mechanisms of Media Control: Case of Serbia

By Jovanka Matić, Research Associate at the Institute of Social Sciences, Belgrade Freedom of the media has been a controversial issue in Serbia for several...

Joint mission to Serbia: Recommendations on Media Freedom

Following concerns about the state of media freedom in Serbia expressed by both Serbian journalists and media organisations as well as international organisations and...

Moldova: From partly free to free media status by 2025

The transition of Moldova from the category of countries with partly free media to the category of countries with free media by 2025 is...

US Urges Moldova to Tackle Russian Propaganda

The US ambassador to Chisinau, James Pettit, said that Moldova should adopt new legislation to counter Russian disinformation and boost the independence of broadcast...

Moldova: What the Media Think About the Media in Figures

Very rarely (or never) do surveys show what the representatives of a professional community or a field think about themselves and about their fellow...

Journalism under fire amid rise of ‘fake news’ and social media-driven echo chambers – UNESCO report

Across the world, journalism is under fire. While more individuals have access to content than ever before, the combination of political polarization and technological...

Romania Media ‘Must Defend its Independence’, Union Says

MediaSind president Cristi Godinac tells BIRN in an interview that journalists must unite to defeat the ruling party’s plans to clip the wings of...

Serbia, the state against independent media

First the closure of the weekly Novine Vranjske and the hunger strike of its director, then the Defense minister's attack against the investigative portal Krik. Hard times...
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