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The Art of Deception (Part I): Cherry-picking, Spinning and Inventing Numbers

Disinformation comes in many guises. In the Balkans, it often poses as a hard number. By Vanja Stokić (Bosnia...

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...

Personnel Cleanup in Transnistrian Media

Some media outlets from the left bank of the Dniester have been reporting about dismissals of local journalists who used to work in the...

Media in Bosnia-Herzegovina: fertile ground for political control

The lack of transparency of media ownership in Bosnia-Herzegovina contributes to a situation in which political and economic pressure limit the freedom of the...

Serbia: Media freedom worsening as Serbs take to the streets

A few days before the 2 April 2017 Serbian presidential elections, a picture was posted on Twitter that caused an unexpected storm. by Mitra Nazar,...

The facets of and remedies for corrupted media systems in Western Balkans

A roundtable focused on the phenomenon of media politicization and media clientelism in the Western Balkans was organized in Tirana on October 28, 2016,...

The Control Room: Political interference in the news production of Macedonia

This investigation reveals how the ruling party controls the news; how particular journalists are assigned to do this dirty work; how the party sends...

Hungary: Sale of “Nepszabadsag” Shows Government Influence over Media

In response to a businessman close to Hungary’s prime minister purchasing the country’s most prominent opposition newspaper company, Freedom House issued the following statement: “The...
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