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Doing their masters’ bidding: Media smear campaigns in central and eastern Europe

Unpatriotic behaviour. Sedition. Being in the pay of shadowy external forces. Faking a neo-Nazi event. These are just a few of the charges that...

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...

Four Broadcasters Dominate Serbian Media, BIRN Shows

New research by BIRN and Reporters Without Borders highlights the extent to which the Serbian media space has become dominated by a handful of...

Rabid Anti-Albanian Sentiment Grips Serbian Media

Growing ethnic and political tensions across the Balkans have triggered rabid warmongering and ethnic anti-Albanian ethnic slurs in Serbian media, local experts warn. by Filip...

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,...

‘War Threats’ Dominate Serbian Front Pages

Serbian tabloids have been publishing sensationalist reports about the possibility of war with Albania and Kosovo, but analysts said this simply allows the authorities...

Unethical Reporting on Migrants in Serbia

By claiming that a group of migrants tried to kidnap a baby as her mother was walking down the street, some Serbian tabloids misinformed...

Serbia Tabloid Targets BIRN, Other Media, as ‘Mercenaries’

The Serbian pro-government Informer newspaper on Monday accused several investigative media outlets, including BIRN, of working as foreign mercenaries for the CIA and others. by...

Critical Voices Defy Fear in New Serbia

Victims of what looks like an organised campaign of intimidation tell how the ‘fear machine’ in Serbia works – and the impact it has...

Attacks on Serbia Media ‘Aim to Cut Their Funds’

Following the latest attack by a pro-government tabloid on BIRN and other independent media, a number of Serbian journalists have suggested that the real...
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Vesna Nikodinoska, a media researcher from North Macedonia, worked as a journalist for several daily and weekly newspapers before transitioning to the...

Empowering Albanian Citizens as Media Educators

A grassroots approach to countering disinformation in Albania’s diverse communities. The Social Contract Institute (SCI), a Tirana-based civil society...