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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...

Croatia: hate speech on the rise but hope for change

In January 2018 an international delegation of press freedom organisation representatives visited Zagreb for the second time in two years to observe the state of media freedom in...

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...

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...

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...

The index of clientelism in the media negative for all countries of Southeast Europe, BiH at the bottom

The ending conference of the project MEDIA CIRCLE –The citizens’ response to clientelism in the media in Southeast Europe was held on 22/3/2018 in Sarajevo. None...

Media in Slovenia: among criminals, politicians and “the barbarians”

By Blaž Zgaga Once praised as a role model country for the Balkans, Slovenia as the most developed part of former Yugoslavia, an EU and...

“A Sickness Beyond Borders:” Understanding and Combating Media Capture

By Kate Musgrave When dozens of journalists, media development experts, and human rights advocates gathered at Central European University’s Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS) earlier...

Who owns the Media in Serbia?

Media Ownership Monitor presented by RSF and BIRN 21 June 2017 – Political influence and concentration distorts the Serbian media market. The resulting lack of...
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Teodora Koledin: Institutions deny access to information that should be public

Teodora Koledin is a Serbian journalist and researcher specializing in disinformation and media ethics. She holds a degree in journalism and is...

(In)visible Youth of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Finding Their Voice in the Digital Age

The Youth Newspaper Association in Bosnia and Herzegovina is developing tools that help in understanding and communicating more easily with young people.

Vesna Nikodinoska: The Media Should Keep Up With New Trends

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...