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 […]
21 January 2022
Meta.mk, under the cooperation agreement, republishes Truthmeter.mk’s analysis: The number of correspondents from the interior of the country is reduced to a minimum. Macedonian Radio and Television has barely employed a few journalists from the interior, while private televisions receive information from part-time journalists Author: Goran Lefkov Uninsured, without employment contracts, with their […]
23 September 2021
Metamorphosis Foundation has started an initiative for instant messaging communication between the institutions and the journalists in North Macedonia for the sake of checking the truthfulness of content delivered to the public, Council of Media Ethics informs. “Four closed WhatsApp groups were formed for the following subjects that are of special public interest, both for […]
14 July 2021
Journalist associations Association of Journalists of Macedonia (AJM), the Council of Media Ethics of Macedonia (CMEM), Independent Union of Journalists and Media Workers (SSNM) and Macedonian Institute for Media (MIM) are demanding urgent action on part of the Ministry of Interior (MOI) and the Public Prosecutor’s Office after the continuous open calls for lynching of […]
26 March 2021
We are posting the Truthmeter’s refutation in its entirety: Truthmeter.mk refutes the claims of Janko Bachev, the president of the political party “Edinstvena Makedonija”‘s (One Macedonia), who in the past several days and weeks has been persistently disinforming the general public, stating that he was exposed to „strong pressure and blockades“ by Truthmeter.mk, adding that […]
9 February 2021
The Administrative Court of Albania decided that the 8 highest state institutions, namely the Presidency, the Parliament of Albania, and several ministries, would provide Faktoje, the fact-checking website in Albania, with information and invoices about the official trips that heads of institutions took abroad. Decisions were made fairly quickly, despite the challenges caused by the […]
13 October 2020
The Independent Labor Syndicate of Journalists and Media Workers (ISSMW), the Association of Journalists of Macedonia (AJM), and the Council of Media Ethics of Macedonia (CMEM) condemned, as they say, the inappropriate statements that were aimed at discrediting and which were followed by lawsuit threats towards the colleagues from the online medium “A1On” by the […]
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 […]
11 June 2020
During yesterday’s session, the Government adopted a Decree to subsidize the social security contributions for media employees. The Decree determines the conditions, the ways, and the procedures for covering the social security contributions for media employees who worked and reported about the COVID-19 situation during the state of emergency i.e. during June, July, and August […]
8 June 2020
The Independent Syndicate of Journalists and Media Workers (SSNM) considers that a package with measures to help Macedonian media is more than necessary and that it must provide a guarantee that this aid will be received directly by the employees that were hit by the COVID-19 crisis. SSNM has three propositions. The first one is […]
4 June 2020
At the end of April, three journalists from North Macedonia – Nataša Stojanovska, Dušica Mrgja and Goran Trpenoski, victims of the violent storming of the Macedonian Parliament on 27 April 2017, filed a private lawsuit against the state for a violation of the right to freedom of expression and compensation for non-pecuniary damage. The lawsuit […]
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 […]
28 April 2020
The fake news and sophisticated disinformations phenomenons are now extensively recognized as a substantial problem that even the most well-developed societies continue to face. The appearance of COVID-19 pandemic has actualized the discussion on this problem, after people, non-formal organizations, or even governments, are reported to have been behind the use of misinformation to flourish […]
14 February 2020
At the height of disinformation dissemination, journalists in Kosovo argue that reporting challenges throughout the region have increased immensely. The professionals argue that the media outlets who do not have physical presence throughout the Balkans should pay extra care to filtering the information they republish but should also be very cautious which media outlets’ content […]
15 October 2019
RTL Croatia’s journalist, Damira Gregoret, whose specialty is politics, is a reporter, news anchor and hosts political shows. Not long ago the Prime Minister of Croatia, Andrej Plenkovic, apologized to her for saying “You are so sweet Damira” instead of replying to her question he didn’t like. What followed was a public apology to Gregoret. […]
8 October 2019
Robert Boteri, the Creative director of the Mladina magazine in Slovenia, has been for decades a part of this cult magazine, which in former Yugoslavia was renowned for its avant-garde content, most often with controversial subjects. In April this year, there was a diplomatic incident when Mladina published a front cover with a caricature of […]
16 August 2019
At a time when the Macedonian public believed that the affair “Reket”, with videos published by the Italian newspaper “La Verità”, suggesting high-level corruption by influence on prosecutors and judges (with a controversial celebrity included), will also maybe reveal recording that will let the voice of Prime Minister Zaev to be heard, this didn’t happen. […]
16 August 2019
Journalist associations, non-governmental organizations and political parties from the country reacted on Prime Minister’s Zoran Zaev statement on the case “Reket”. He said that “he will not allow a few criminals, one vain journalist and a faggot to overthrow the current government”. The Association of Journalists of Macedonia demanded the Prime Minister immediately apologize to […]
17 April 2019
The Association of Journalists of Macedonia has strongly condemned the attack on a journalist and cameraman from TV21 by close relatives of the mayor of Aracinovo Milikije Halimi from SDSM. “Yesterday, after the TV21 team recorded a segment about complaints of the inhabitants of this municipality over the poor infrastructure, relatives of Mayor Halimi sent […]
9 August 2018
A delegation of the Macedonian Journalists Association met with representatives of the OSCE/ODIHR observation mission to discuss changes to the Electoral Code and the referendum, which have a direct impact on the media, the AJM informs. AJM President Naser Selmani stressed that the government and the opposition are abusing the referendum to secure funding for […]
