The Macedonian Information Agency (MIA) has announced that in the next three months, until the end of the local elections, the internet portals can transmit free of charge all MIA information.
Journalists will be able to receive free information from the Central Registry, but the requests will have to indicate on what kind of research they are working on. It’s what the Director of the Central Registry, Marija Boškovska-Jankovska, told to the journalists national meeting.
The Ministry of Information Society put it on paper, the draft law on audio and audiovisual media services, but without consulting all stakeholders in a wider debate. The main emphasis is on reducing political influence, but illogical passages are still noticeable.
The closure of the weekly magazine “Vranjske novine” is a heavy blow for the Serbian regional independent press. Dozens of journalists gathered in Belgrade to express their disagreement, while Vukašin Obradović, editor-in-chief of the magazine, began the hunger strike at his office in Vranje.
This year Bosnia and Herzegovina marks 110 years since the first press law in this country was published: it was in 1907. Boro Kontic from Mediacentar analyzes the law and compares it with today's situation in Bosnian media landscape.
The French journalist Loup Bureau, abusively detained by Turkish authorities for 52 days, has been released and will be soon sent back to France. It was announced by his lawyer while Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian was completing a two-day visit in Turkey.
The “cleaning up” goes on within the Croatian public Television (HRT). "Hrvatska uzivo" broadcast, often critical of the government, was removed from the program schedule in one night, without any explanation being given.
In the last few days the campaign “Let’s shutdown Novosti” has reached a peak. Željka Markić wrote once again to the Prime Minister Plenković about cutting finances to “these anti-Croatian elements” and her campaign gained more and more supporters - among them Dražen Keleminec, who burned a copy of “Novosti”. Government leaders have been going on to consider all recent events as irrelevant, and they missed opportunity to condemn pressure on journalists and editors even on a symbolic level.
Why does the Croatian State should finance those media which offer fascist contents? Examining the case of Z1 television, H-Alter opens a discussion with media experts as Gordana Vilović, Hajrudin Hromadžić and Vjeran Zuppa.
Marked by political conflicts, corruption scandals and social problems, Kosovo nevertheless retains a relatively lively media scene. But being a journalist and informing the public opinion is a dangerous job.
