Tag: AJM

If the news organizations and associations are not involved in these discussions on the media between political parties and the Belgian facilitator Peter Vanhoutte, journalists will protest in front of the MPs Clubhouse, stated the President of the Association of Journalists Naser Selmani. He reacted to recent amendments ofthe Election Code, which includes Internet portals, and foresees fines up to 8,000 euros. Mr...

Brussels clearly and unambiguously said that media freedom in Macedonia regressing, that there is violence against journalists, the Government directly and indirectly interfere in the editorial policy of the media through opaque advertising , said the Association of Journalists of Macedonia (AJM), in response to the European Commission's progress report. - In the report the Commission pays appropriate attention to...

The Association of Journalists strongly condemns the attempt to introduce a censorship bill prohibiting the publication and possession of wire-tapped materials in Parliament yesterday afternoon, filed by MP's from the ruling parties, VMRO-DPMNE and DUI, and it requires an immediate withdrawal from parliamentary procedure. They said that this was an outrageous proposal and instead of the expected improvement of...

"An interesting meeting," was the brief comment of the facilitator of the negotiations the parties signed in the Przhino Agreement, Peter van Houte, about today's talks discussing the situation in the media. At the beginning of the meeting, Richard Bailey a media expert gave a presentation on the situation in the British Broadcasting Service "BBC ". At the meeting of the...

Association of Journalists of Macedonia strongly condemns violence against journalists by police and violent protestors in Skopje. "Violence against journalists is unacceptable and is a direct attack on freedom of the media and the public's right to be informed about events of public interest. It is striking for Macedonian democracy when police is beating journalists at protests, rather than to...

"Macedonian institutions should form a joint independent committee that will lead a new investigation to confirm or dispel public suspicions that the journalist Nikola Mladenov had not been killed in a car accident, but that he was assassinated," reads the statement of the Association of Journalists of Macedonia (AJM), published on the occasion of the International Day of Press...

AJM was silent when SDSM and Zaev published unconfirmed conversations of other journalists who, according to SDSM, are not close to the opposition, and reacted to the announcement of conversations close to SDSM that are not made public, unlike other journalists, reads the statement of the Macedonian Association of Journalists (MAJ) on, as they say, "the events connected with...

Association of Journalists of Macedonia is seriously concerned by information that Ivana Kostovska, editor-in-chief of the web portal "Telegraf.mk" and web portal in English "Independent.mk", resigned. "On 16th of February Kostovska informed the responsible at company "Media Print Macedonia" in written that management is pushing her to publish or hide information on the two media for which she is responsible....

Association of Journalists of Macedonia strongly condemns the brutal manipulation of public service Macedonian Radio-television for daily party-political needs. MRT is funded by the broadcasting fee of the people and it should serve the public interest, is the opinion of the association. "Debate broadcasted live on Sunday at 8 pm, led by editor-in-chief Goran Petrovski, where the topic of conversation...

Journalist Tomislav Kezharovski is released. As he was suddenly imprisoned after the passing of the verdict by the Court of Appeal for two years in prison, the journalist was suddenly released with a decision for a one-month of leave in the same manner. Today the court announced that it accepted the request for parole for Kezharovski. The sequence of events and...

Foreign Minister Nikola Poposki today stated that it was unclear why reporters protested yesterday for the release of journalist Tomislav Kezharovski when he had already been released from prison "Skopje". - Most of us do not understand what the protest was about because we know that all were informed that the person concerned is released. I think it would...