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Union of Macedonian Journalists: the Council of Judges' statement, that the biggest pressure on them comes from the media, is absurd

29/09/2015

The Council of judges in Macedonia stated that the biggest pressure on their work is currently coming from the media. The reactions are ironic, and media organizations have condemned the Council's statement.

24Vesti: Read the full article in Macedonian

The cost of the access to public information

29/09/2015

The amendments to the Act on access to public information legalise the tendency of several public institution to charge for the costs of preparation of the copies of requested information. NGOs such as Transparency International and the Slovenian Association of Journalists criticise the new law that poses risks for media freedom and the work of journalists.

Radio Student: Read the full article in Slovenian

Detained Journalists Released in Diyarbakır

29/09/2015

31 of the 32 journalists who had been detained by policemen in Diyarbakır were released last night.

Bianet: Read the full article in English

Police Raid against DİHA: We won’t let the Truth be Hidden

29/09/2015

The police raid against the offices of the news agencies DİHA and Azadiya Welat was condemned and the two news agencies were praised for their truth revelations.

Bianet: Read the full article in English

OSCE trains journalists from Tirana about Shkodra Lake, but excludes local journalists

27/09/2015

The OSCE presence in Albania organised from 16th to 18th September a training for journalists about environmental issues on Shkodra Lake. Regretfully, the event did not involve local journalists, who are the most informed on environmental issues and have authored in the past several investigations on the topic. The reason for such exclusion could be the intention to hide the failure of enviromental protection measures.

Shqiptarja: Read the full article in Albanian

Traditional print media losing importance that they once had

25/09/2015

Professor Huub Evers from the Netherlands considers that traditional print media are losing the importance that they once had.

Vijesti: read the full article in Montenegrin

Experts ask for changes in the functioning of MRTV

25/09/2015

Macedonian experts are asking for changes in the public broadcasting service, namely for new strategies to stop partisan influence on the public broadcasting MRTV.

24Vesti: read the full article in Macedonian

Journalists' organizations: never again beaten journalists and paid political advertisement

23/09/2015

During the ongoing political negotiations, several journalists’ organizations presented their proposals about how to successfully de-politicize the media. The problems of major concern for journalists relate to the functioning of the public broadcasting service (Macedonian Radio Television, MPT) and to government non-transparent advertisement in the media.

24Vesti: read the full article in Macedonian

Mijatovic: we cannot ignore that we have a media freedom problem

21/09/2015

“As long as in the countries of the OSCE journalists are threatened, imprisoned, attacked or beaten in the streets, we can not pretend that the problem does not exist”, said OSCE representative for Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatovic.

Vijesti: read the full article in Montenegrin

Ukraine bans journalists who 'threaten national interests' from the country

17/09/2015

President Petro Poroshenko banned two BBC correspondents from Ukraine along with many Russian journalists and public figures. Тhe Bulgarian journalists Elena Joncheva and Bulgarian nationalist MP Magdalena Tasheva are also on the blacklist.

Mediapool: Read the full article in Bulgarian