In a three-day training in Strumica, young people were learning Data Journalism and Data Visualization
Metamorphosis Foundation in cooperation with the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) held a three-day workshop “Data Journalism and Visualization” in the period 26 - 28 April in Strumica. Eleven people, primarily students and young journalists from the Vardar and Southeast Region of North Macedonia,...
A three-day training “Combating disinformation and fact-checking” was held in Struga
A dozen of young people from the South-West Region and Pelagonija participated in the three-day workshop on the fight against disinformation and fact-checking, that took place in Struga from 22nd to 24th March. The training was organized by the Metamorphosis Foundation in partnership with...
The future of mass surveillance in Serbia?
This article was written by Ana Toskić Cvetinović, executive director of the civil society organization Partners for Democratic Change Serbia, a member of the Increasing Civic Engagement in the Digital Agenda (ICEDA) network. An edited version is republished by Global Voices with permission.
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The state of online free expression worldwide in 2022
"From internet shutdowns, crackdowns on expression and closed-door partnerships to attempts to restrict anonymity and end to end encryption, in many places, digital rights are under threat," writes IFEX.org in this article republished by Meta.mk. This statement was originally published by the IFEX member Electronic...
State-affiliated actors launch smear campaign against Hungarian investigative nonprofit Átlátszó
This story was published by the Hungarian investigative journalism non-profit, Atlatszo. An edited version was published as part of a partnership with Global Voices.
Tamás Bodoky, editor-in-chief of Atlatszo, told Media1 that he believes there is a coordinated campaign to attack the investigative nonprofit from...
EFJ: Six attacks against journalists in December following escalating tensions in Kosovo
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) raises the alert on the increasing threats surrounding journalists and media workers reporting on the tensions between Serbia and Kosovo from the North of Kosovo, and joins its affiliate the Association of Journalists in Kosovo (AJK) in asking...
AJM condemns the verbal attack on Meta.mk’s journalist Ilinka Iljoska after she photographed uncollected garbage
The Association of Journalists of Macedonia (AJM) condemned the threats and the insults that employees of Skopje's public enterprise for communal hygiene "Komunalna higiena - Skopje" (KHS) hurled at Meta news agency's journalist Ilinka Iljoska in Kisela Voda in Skopje, the capital of North...
Hungary: Media freedom groups welcome EU court referral over Klubrádió frequency
"This decision by the EU's executive body to take Hungary to court over the alleged breach in EU telecoms rules regarding Klubrádió's frequency licence is a belated but important signal that the Commission is increasingly willing to use the tools available to it to...
Investigators silent on the attacks on media workers, female journalists are the most common target
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...
Metamorphosis Foundation’s debate: Media reforms must be continuous, not “stop and go” process
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'...
COVID-19 pushed the media sector reforms out of the agenda in North Macedonia
Media reforms in North Macedonia were very low on the agenda of policy and decision makers in the first quarter of 2020, states the report titled "Monitoring of Media Reform Process and the Work of AVMS and MRT" by the Media Development Center. COVID-19...
Fake news and (self) regulation in the focus of the electoral manifestos of VMRO-DPMNE and SDSM
The media and the self-regulation, the threats and lawsuits that the journalists face, the fake news, media literacy, and the financial support for the media are all present in the electoral manifestos of two of the biggest political parties that will be participating in...
Metamorphosis Foundation: The biggest threat is the disinformation about the COVID-19 pandemics
The Metamorphosis Foundation celebrating 3 May, World Press Freedom Day, underlines that the COVID-19 pandemics which marked the days since the beginning of this years has pinpointed to the necessity of providing credible reporting and information and to the necessity of waging continuous war...
The Agency of Audio and Audio-Visual Media Services demands from all institutions transparency and two-way communication with journalists
The Agency of Audio and Audio-Visual Media Services (AAAVMS) made a plea to the Government and other institutions to promote the communication with journalists and to increase the level of transparency during the state of emergency period. AAAVMS stress that the communication with the...
The Agency of Audio and Audio-Visual Media Services didn’t register any violations of the Election Code while monitoring the media
The Agency of Audio and Audio-Visual Media Services (AAAVMS) began its pre-election media monitoring and in the past period it didn't evidence any violations of the Election Code, states the fourth weekly report that AAAVMS submitted at the State Election Committee (SEC) . The...
Macedonian government approves 86.000 euros for the Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media Services to monitor the elections in the media
During the 10th session, the Government approved assets for the Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media Services for monitoring the elections reporting in the media.
"At the session, the Government adopted the decision to approve assets from the budget in the amount of 5.277.000...
The Macedonian Radio Television’s new Supervising Board was elected with a 5 year mandate
At the session that took place on the 6th of February, the Macedonian Radio television's (MRT) Program Council elected the new Supervising Board with a 5 year mandate. As is stated at MRT's web page, the mandate of the members of MRT's Supervising Board...
Macedonian civic organizations demand urgent appointment of managing personnel in several institutions
On an initiative of ten networks of civic organizations that gather around 100 associations and initiatives, the representatives of the NGO sector held a protest in front of the Macedonian Parliament. The organizations call for an urgent appointment of personnel in several institutions and...
