23 January 2018
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 […]
22 January 2018
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 […]
22 December 2017
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 […]
21 December 2017
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 […]
30 November 2017
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 […]
22 November 2017
“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 […]
3 November 2017
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 […]
31 October 2017
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 […]
6 October 2017
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 […]
3 October 2017
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, […]
14 July 2017
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 […]
3 July 2017
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 […]
29 June 2017
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 […]
12 June 2017
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 […]
13 April 2017
“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 […]
12 March 2017
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 […]
3 March 2017
The Associations of Journalists of Macedonia condemned the “campaign for intimidation and humiliation of journalists that is carried out in Skopje by unknown persons inspired by the vengeful statements by the president of VMRO-DPMNE Nikola Gruevski, who last week has called upon the ethnic Macedonians, through protests, to prevent the opposition to form a government […]
20 February 2017
Today, VMRO-DPMNE in a statement accused SDSM and “criminals” from the ranks of the party of ordering attacks on the media and threatening all journalists who are not under the control of SDSM and Soros. “Ivona Talevska a journalist from “Sitel” TV was attacked, journalist Janko Ilkovski was attacked, Dejan Nikolovski was attacked, Antonio Dimitrievski, […]
16 January 2017
The Association of Journalists of Macedonia condemns the coordinated surge of verbal abuse by the Government against journalists, who, the AJM says, is directed against the freedom of the media and the public’s right to be informed. “Such attacks are intended to intimidate and silence journalists and suppress criticism from the media. The Government wants to […]
10 November 2016
The Association of Journalists of Macedonia agrees with the European Commission’s assessment that the freedom of the press in Macedonia this year has worsened. The representatives of the Association have said that the Commission’s Progress Report was right to conclude that in the majority of the Macedonian media there is a lack of political pluralism […]
