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Report: Establishment of KESMA Exacerbates the Overall Risk to Media Pluralism in Hungary

Central European Press and Media Foundation (KESMA) was established in Hungary, and almost immediately, most of the media owners that were considered by public...

Calls to investigate purchase of two Serbian TV stations

The Independent Journalists’ Association of Serbia (NUNS) has called for a quick investigation into the purchase of the TV Prva and O2 stations by...

Serbia: Hefty State Funding to Pro-government Tabloids

Pro-governmental tabloid papers - Srpski telegraf and Informer - received the total of 23.05 million dinars (approx. 190.000 eur) through open calls for media...

Dossier: Freedom of the press in Bulgaria

Dangerous entanglements between media, politics and business in the country in charge of the Presidency of the Council of the EU. by Nicola Pedrazzi,  Fazıla Mat, ...

Hungary’s regime is exporting instability and propaganda to the Balkans

by Filip Stojanovski  An investigation conducted by independent Macedonian news outlet Nova TV has found that some of the media that drove right-wing populist propaganda...

Media in Bulgaria: euphoria, crisis and corruption

A talk with Dr. Lada Trifonova Price from Sheffield Hallam University on the state of information in Bulgaria, native country of hers on which...

Right-Wing Hungarian Media Moves Into the Balkans

Hungarians with links to the country’s pro-government media have embarked on a mass buy-up of news outlets in Macedonia, part of what appears to...

Serbia Considered Major State Intervention in Media Market

The Serbian government’s discarded media strategy draft, which has been obtained by BIRN, planned to bring the state back into the media market through...

Bulgaria, freedom of the press at the time of the EU presidency

Bulgaria currently holds its first, historic presidency of the Council of Ministers of the EU: in these very same months, however, the main international...

A Family Affair – The myth of media pluralism in Albania: Media Ownership Monitor

Audience and market concentration distorts the Albanian media market. The resulting lack of plurality can be detected in television and radio but also with...
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