Tag: journalists

Three verbal attacks on women journalists in 2021 come from political figures. It speaks a lot about the low culture of public communication in the relationship between a holder of public office and a journalist, but it also speaks about the fact that holders of public office are easily encouraged to make threats against women journalists in North Macedonia....

North Macedonia ranked 57th on the Reporters Without Borders' 2022 World Press Freedom Index, climbing 33 places compared to 2021. Our country, together with Montenegro, marks the biggest leap in the Balkans region in the media freedom ranking. In this year's list, Montenegro marks a leap of 41 places compared to last year, but it is ranked 63rd on...

In times of war and global polarization the Western Balkans region is divided along the lines of current polarizing forces. Disinformation campaigns, hate speech, physical attacks, threats, low income, poor economic status, divisions, self-censorship and job insecurity are the main challenges that the regional independent media are facing. The World Press Freedom Day is the perfect opportunity to emphasize...

Metamorphosis Foundation organized a debate yesterday about the reforms in the media sector in North Macedonia, which took place after the presentation of the report "Halfway completed reforms – the political will is here one moment, and gone the next", on the media reforms' monitoring it performed. At the debate, the reports' findings were confirmed, where a joint conclusion was...

Journalists from newsrooms of three daily newspapers published by "Media Print Macedonia" ("Dnevnik", "Utrinski vesnik", "West") today, at noon, held a protest in front of the company's premises to express their discontent and resentment of the management's decision to reduce staff salaries. The decision came into force today, and with it a sharp reduction in wage levels. Depending on employee status,...

The journalists of the daily newspaper "Vest", issued by the company "Media Print Macedonia" (MPM), came out today at noon in front of the seat of the company dressed in T-shirts with the slogan "Macedonia employs." As they say, they want to take advantage of the famous trade union measure to express dissatisfaction with the management plans for wage...

Representative for media freedom at OSCE Dunja Mijatovik today called for an urgent investigation for the wiretapping of journalists in Macedonia, reports "Nova TV". - Eavesdropping and surveillance of journalists is unacceptable. This further weakens the already fragile press freedom in the country - said Mijatovik. She is informed that on 25th of February, several journalists received folders from the wiretaps. -...

"We demand Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, Interior Minister Gordana Jankulovska and the Director of the Security and Intelligence Service Sasho Mijalkov to resign. Regardless of who ordered wiretapping, the authorities failed to protect us," responded the Association of Journalists of Macedonia (AJM). AJM reaction follows after the press conference of Zoran Zaev, on which the leader of the opposition...

As SDSM leader Zoran Zaev announced at today’s press conference, most monitored journalist in Macedonia from the Security and Intelligence Service was the owner and editor of the weekly "Fokus", Nikola Mladenov. But, as Zaev said, justifiably he will not publish the calls and will act in a way which will be decided by the family. Today, together with Mladenov’s...

SDSM leader Zoran Zaev today announced the fourth "bomb", audio recordings of tapped conversations. According to him, these conversations demonstrate the direct relationship between UBK and the media. Zaev said that more than 100 journalists of pro-government and critical media were tapped, but that especially were followed journalists who followed the events related to the events of 24th of December 2012. The...

The news industry has reacted strongly to the statements of EU Commissioner for accession negotiations, Johannes Hahn, given a few hours before his departure for Skopje, in which he expressed doubt about the rankings and methodology of "Reporters Without Borders" for freedom of media. To a question from a reporter from Serbia on the state of press freedom in that...