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Selmani to Popovski: Put your dogs on a leash before its too late

Today, several dozen journalists protested outside the government to demand that measures be taken on threats and insults that DUI official, Bekir Asani sent to the president of the association of journalists, Naser Selmani. At the protest, Selmani said that journalists were constantly exposed to threats and pressure and demanded that measures be taken to put an end to the...

Journalist organizations react: Threats against journalists are an attack on democracy

The Macedonian Media Institute (MIM), the Media Ethics Council of Macedonia (CEMM), the Independent Trade Union of Journalists and Media Workers (SSNM) and the Institute for Communication Studies (ICS) today categorically denounced the threats directed against the President of the Association of Journalists of Macedonia (AJM) Naser Selmani. Yesterday, Selmani revealed that he had received death threats from people from...

President Ivanov’s Cabinet: Selmani has been misinformed, the certificates are for associates

The cabinet of the President of the Republic of Macedonia, Gjorge Ivanov, has issued a press release that denies the information shared by the President of the Association of Journalists of Macedonia (AJN) Naser Selmani, that the cabinet has been issuing security certificates to journalists. The press release states that Selmani has been misinformed. "In the process of implementation...

AJM arranges easier access for journalists to public information

The Association of Journalists of Macedonia (AJM) will sign a memorandum of cooperation with the Commission for the Protection of the Right of Free Access to Public Information, which will raise the level of social transparency and will facilitate the way journalists get information from state institutions  That was agreed upon at today's meeting with the representatives from the...

AJM and PPO agree to review reports of hate speech against journalists

Representatives of the Association of Journalists of Macedonia had a meeting today with public prosecutor Ljubomir Joveski, where they talked discussed improving the mutual cooperation for issues of common interest. The prosecution informs that AJM president Naser Selmani expressed concern that in Macedonia there is a policy of impunity regarding violence against journalists. Selmani asked Joveski that the Public Prosecutor's...

AJM: 18 journalists were attacked last year and no one has been held accountable

Last year, in Macedonia, 18 attacks nf journalists were reported, of which 13 were physical and verbal attacks, while the rest were insults, obstruction at work and the destruction of property, according to the Report on the Freedom of the Media and the Safety of Journalists in Macedonia for 2017 which was presented today, by the Association of Journalists...

Judges do not recognize media portals in cases of defamation and insult

Аppeals are being rejected with the explanation that “ the portal does not have passive legitimation” in the Primary Court Skopje 2 Skopje for cases of defamation and insult of which the one side is a journalist that works in the on-line media. According to this , judges practically do not admit the portals as a media. Where for...

Journalist associations are against government legislations and they seek self-regulation

The Macedonian journalism doesn't need a law for media and the current one should be abolished without thinking of a new version, said Tamara Chausidis, the President of the Syndicate of the journalists and media workers of Macedonia (SSNM) during today's debate named as "Determining the need of possible changes in the Law governing the media" that was organized...

MTV is on life support, has weak video signal and the secondary audio programming is nowhere near implementation

Instead of building a bridge of reconciliation, the Macedonian Radio Television has built lingual walls between its viewers as high as the building itself. Milena Atanasovska - Manasieva - PINA The programmes aired by the Albanian, Turkish, Vlach and other communities in the country do not reach the entire audience because even five years after the digitalization has been introduced, the...

Selmani: All we hear from Manchevski is empty phrases, the Government wants to rule the media

"The law is too detailed, it has been infantilized, caricatured, to the point where it determines which programme should be aired and when. It limits the freedom of expression and, moreover, introduces censorship and auto censorship in the media”, said Katerina Kolozova from the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities - Skopje (ISSH) at today's presentation of their report...

The AJM condemns the detainment of two journalists and wants answers from the MOI and the PPO

The Association of Journalists in Macedonia claims that the attitude of the institutions is completely unacceptable and that their aim is to intimidate journalists and encourage self-censorship when covering certain court hearings. Yesterday, Mahmuti and Uka, as stated in the statement by the AJM, were detained for six hours at a police station, on the grounds that they had been...

AJM: The government should urgently settle MRT’s debt so we are not cut off from the EBU

The Association of Journalists of Macedonia (AJM) called on the Government to urgently, as soon as possible, provide money to settle the debt of the Macedonian "Radio-Television" (MRT) has towards the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which is approximately half a million euros. Yesterday, at the session of the MRT Program Council, they came to the conclusion to ask the Government to...

Zaev: MRT shall be an independent media, with an independent manager and independent editors

The assets that will be used from the state budget and diverted to the Macedonian Radio Television (MRTV) will be used for providing an independence of the national service, said the SDSM's party leader and Prime Minister Zoran Zaev during yesterday's political rally in Tetovo as part of the local election campaign. -Up to 80.000 -100.000 accounts are being...

AJM is struggling with fake news with the Code of Ethics from 2001

The Association of Journalists of Macedonia sent copies of the Code Journalists of Macedonia to all the media registered in the Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media Services. "The AJM Code of Ethics was adopted in 2001 and was first distributed to all media in the country. Due to recent developments and upcoming local elections, the need for its re-representation...

On the request of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, the court terminated the custody of Zoran Bozinovski

On the request of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, the Criminal Court Skopje terminated the custody of journalist Zoran Bozinovski who was charged with criminal association, espionage and blackmail. Basic Court Skopje I, announced today, that the ruling judge who is currently handling Bozinovski’s case, Lenka Davitkovska, at the main hearing today, accepted the Public Prosecutor’s proposal to terminate his custody. The...

Journalist Associations submit requests for urgent media reforms

A group of journalist and media organizations submitted a request to the Government for the implementation of systemic media reforms, which emphasizes priority legal amendments and measures that need to be implemented. The Government has been asked to start an inclusive and transparent process for a public discussion, as other problems resolutions can lead to the improvement in the freedom...

AJM has requested from the Government protection for journalists from violence caused by state institutions

The Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and the Minister of Communications and Transparency, Robert Poposki, had talks with the Belgian expert Peter Vanhoutte and the representatives of AJM regarding the situation with the media and the forthcoming reforms. It was concluded at the meeting that the media is among the most important pillars of a single democratic society and the government's...

AJM condemns threats made against “Portalb” and the attack on the news team from “Televizija 24”

The Association of Journalists of Macedonia (AJM) has strongly condemned the latest attacks and threats against journalists that occurred just last week. The association said that these serious incidents show that bullies are not discouraged by the change of Government and they urge the new Government that the real reform of the media must start when they stop attacks...

AJM: Steep fall of media freedom and worsening of the journalists’ status

“In 2016, the government has used all of the government’s available instruments to limit the freedom of speech and to control the media. It is awarding the docile media with public assets while the critical journalists are constantly attacked and are exposed to various types of pressure said Naser Selmani, the president of the Association of Journalists in Macedonia...

Journalist associations from the region condemned the attacks on journalists in Macedonia

Journalist associations from Croatia, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Serbia, Montenegro have expressed their solidarity and support for the journalists and the media workers in Macedonia who are constantly dealing with pressures, physical attacks, and death threats. The associations from the region, after the attack on the TV 24’s reporter during the protests organized by the “For a United Macedonia” initiative,...