11 October 2023
Ulrik Haagerup, the founder and CEO of the Constructive Institute, experienced a profound realization during his tenure as Editor in Chief at a prominent Danish media outlet: he recognized that the majority of the news he was delivering to his audience was overwhelmingly negative and fear-inducing. So he decided to leave in order to create […]
28 April 2023
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, participated in the workshop, which was held in English. The workshop […]
27 March 2023
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 International Center for Journalists (ICFJ). Trainers of the workshop were […]
9 February 2023
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. Under the content-sharing agreement between “Global Voices” and Meta.mk, we republish the […]
8 February 2023
“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 Fronteer Foundation – EFF.org on 27 December 2022. It’s been a […]
31 January 2023
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 actors close to Hungary’s ruling party Fidesz, mirroring the autocratic […]
4 January 2023
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 the competent authorities, including the European Union Rule of Law Mission […]
15 August 2022
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 Macedonia. The incident occured on Monday, the 15th of August 2022. […]
21 July 2022
“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 defend independent media, freedom of expression and media pluralism where they […]
7 June 2022
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 […]
6 November 2021
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, […]
18 July 2020
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 pushed out the issue of media reforms from the agenda and […]
7 July 2020
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 North Macedonia’s parliamentary elections on the 15th of July. In VMRO-DPMNE’s […]
3 May 2020
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 against the disinformation. The World Press Freedom Day this year is […]
21 April 2020
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 journalists should be open and two-way. “During a state of emergency […]
17 March 2020
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 monitoring of the media will continue in the next period, for […]
18 February 2020
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 denars (85.805 euros) for the Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media […]
10 February 2020
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 will start on the 5th of March. Part of the elected […]
27 November 2019
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 bodies on part of the Committee on Elections and Appointment Issues. […]
