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Montenegro: A need for a meaningful debate

by Goran Đurović, 4 October 2016 Goran Đurović reflects on the rejected proposals to amend the media laws and calls for a wide debate over...

Media Literacy as the Prerequisite for Active Citizenship

The Media Diversity Institute (MDI) has co-organised a conference “Media literacy as the prerequisite for active citizenship” held on 27 September in Skopje, Macedonia....

European Commission eager to foster media pluralism and public service media in Western Balkans

A delegation of the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) met with Johannes Hahn, EU Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy & Enlargement Negotiations yesterday (05/09/2016) to discuss how...

Moldova: foreign broadcasters banned

by Marzia Bona ~ 11 August 2016 The reform of the Broadcasting Code in Moldova threatens to affect media pluralism in the country On 7 July, the Moldavian Parliament...

Media (In)dependence in Bulgaria: Risks and Trends

A report by the Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD) about political influences on Bulgarian media Analysts Tihomir Bezlov and Dr. Lybomir Kutin curated...

UNESCO celebrates World Press Freedom Day 2016

Access to Information and Fundamental Freedoms: This Is Your Right! is the main theme of this year's UNESCO event marking the World Press Freedom Day. Main...

EFJ Annual Meeting in Sarajevo: Rising trend in political influence on media

The annual meeting of the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), bringing together 150 journalists, 93 delegates and 53 news organizations from 38 countries of...

OSCE Representative calls on Turkey to refrain from acts of intimidation against media, following appointment of trustees to run Zaman newspaper

VIENNA, 4 March 2016 – Appointing trustees to manage the Zaman daily newspaper is the latest in a string of measures initiated by the...

European media freedom under attack

By Mogens Blicher Bjerregård, president of the European Federation of Journalists In Turkey, local journalists are being put in prison while foreign journalists are being deported. Meanwhile,...

Croatia: governmental attacks on Media Freedom

The decision to abolish state subsidies for non-profit media in Croatia was announced by CroatianMinister of Culture, Zlatko Hasanbegović, on the 27th of January 2016. The...
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