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Media freedom under electoral siege: money, law, and silence between the lines

13 November 2025

Emotional ties and propaganda: The Russian “Soft power” in the Balkans

28 February 2024

Interviews, newspaper sections, shows and columns – The growing presence of China in the media in North Macedonia

24 December 2023

The mass media never declared “Ukraine is done with!”, nor should they be blamed for the war victims

14 November 2023

OSCE/ODIHR: National broadcasters’ reporting lacked profound and analytical coverage of the election campaign activities

OSCE/ODIHR: National broadcasters’ reporting lacked profound and analytical coverage of the election campaign activities

17 July 2020

The numerous debates and talk-shows were mainly used by the participants as platforms for mutual personal criticism, note OSCE/ODIHR’s observers in their report regarding the monitoring of national broadcasters during the election process in North Macedonia. The preliminary report also states that the newscasts of all national broadcasters monitored by the ODIHR SEAM provided superficial […]

Fake news and (self) regulation in the focus of the electoral manifestos of VMRO-DPMNE and SDSM

Fake news and (self) regulation in the focus of the electoral manifestos of VMRO-DPMNE and SDSM

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 […]

The electoral system remains a source of crisis in North Macedonia

The electoral system remains a source of crisis in North Macedonia

15 June 2020

With the latest amendments to the Electoral Code from February 2020, some improvements have been made, primarily in voter registration, in voting procedures, and in expanding and clarifying the competencies of the State Audit Office (SAO) and the State Commission for Prevention of Corruption (SCPC) on financial control. However, the election model remained with six […]

The Government will subsidize the social security contributions for media workers for three months

The Government will subsidize the social security contributions for media workers for three months

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 […]

Journalists associations: Government’s decree for aid for media selective – does not include all media

Journalists associations: Government’s decree for aid for media selective – does not include all media

3 June 2020

The Association of Journalists of Macedonia (AJM) and the Macedonian Independent Syndicate of Journalists and Media Workers (SSNM) expressed their concern about the situation of local and regional broadcasters, who announced they will go on strike by stopping the program temporarily. “This decision by local and regional broadcasters comes after the Government’s decree from the […]

Metamorphosis Foundation: The biggest threat is the disinformation about the COVID-19 pandemics

Metamorphosis Foundation: The biggest threat is the disinformation about the COVID-19 pandemics

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 […]

How Russia influences Serbian media

How Russia influences Serbian media

13 February 2020

An opinion poll conducted by the Institute for European Affairs in September 2019 shows that 23 percent of Serbian citizens believe Russia is Serbia’s largest aid donor. In reality, Russia hasn’t made the top 10 of Serbia’s largest donors since 2000, according to the data by the Ministry of European Integration. The EU tops the list with 2.96 billion […]

Russia intensively abuses the dire financial situation of the media in the Balkans

Russia intensively abuses the dire financial situation of the media in the Balkans

27 January 2020

One of the most effective mechanisms for amplifying Russian influence in SEE has been the deployment of sharp power instruments such as media capture, cultural and religious ties and sponsoring of civil society activities. These aim to create a favorable environment for the presence of Russia’s businesses, while at the same time deepen political divides […]

Robert Boteri: In Slovenia media outlets are bribed to discredit politicians and businessmen

Robert Boteri: In Slovenia media outlets are bribed to discredit politicians and businessmen

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 […]

AJM reacts to advertising in the private media by the Government paid with party money

AJM reacts to advertising in the private media by the Government paid with party money

13 June 2019

The Association of Journalists of Macedonia has responded to advertisements in private media outlets regarding the work of the Government in the last two years, commissioned and paid for with money from political parties. “In the last few days, in the media we have seen videos promoting Government projects, and these advertisements are paid from […]

Nine hundred students are media literate and trained to recognize fake news

Nine hundred students are media literate and trained to recognize fake news

14 May 2019

The Foundation for Internet and Society “Metamorphosis” and “EuroThink” – Center for European Strategies today held a closed briefing meeting with the grantees from the small grants program of the project “Critical Thinking for Mediawise Citizens- CriThink”, implemented with support from the European Union. Within the framework of the first grant scheme of the project […]

Journalist associations expect stronger efforts for reforms in the media

Journalist associations expect stronger efforts for reforms in the media

3 May 2019

The Media Ethics Council of Macedonia, the Association of Journalists of Macedonia (AJM), the Independent Syndicate of Journalists and Media workers (ISJMW) and the Macedonian Media Institute (MMI) regarding the World Freedom Day, the 3rd of May remind of the necessity of a serious engagement of all relevant participants about all major reformatory steps in […]

“Metamophosis”: The Direct Assignment of the Public Money to the Media Leads to Control of the Media

“Metamophosis”: The Direct Assignment of the Public Money to the Media Leads to Control of the Media

12 April 2019

Within its commitments for free, independent and professional media, Metamorphosis Foundation for Internet and Society deems that the media should not be directly and financially aided by the state. The aid ought to come in other forms such as lowering the tax rates and lifting the journalist employment fees and it ought to be for […]

Research: There can never be enough reforms in the media

Research: There can never be enough reforms in the media

29 March 2019

Has the media in the country been reformed after the period of full media darkness and the phase “captured state” especially in the period after 2011 and by the middle of 2016? How to get a free and powerful media – real bearers of the “fourth estate” in the country? Part of these questions were […]

Media Ethics Councils from the Balkans are asking for stable funding from donors and governments

Media Ethics Councils from the Balkans are asking for stable funding from donors and governments

27 March 2019

Ethics COuncils from several Balkans’ countries, at a regional conference that is organized in Skopje, have asked from potential donors and state authorities to provide more stable support for independent functioning of these bodies. “The self-sustainability of these ethics councils – a myth of reality about the Balkans region and Turkey” is a subject of […]

Vuk Velebit: Serbian press more biased than Russian “Sputnik”

Vuk Velebit: Serbian press more biased than Russian “Sputnik”

26 March 2019

In Serbia, manipulation and misinformation on the part of pro-regime TV stations is part of everyday life. A major problem is the lack of information and the Government’s intention to manipulate public opinion through its TV stations and discredit political opponents. Vuk Velebit is an author and researcher who explores Russian propaganda in Serbia’s daily […]

Israeli media report on the opening of Jewish Memorial Center 8 years late

Israeli media report on the opening of Jewish Memorial Center 8 years late

14 March 2019

The Jewish Telegraphic Agency published an article on March 11th, reporting that the Holocaust Memorial Center of Jews from Macedonia opened in Skopje, even though the center actually opened in 2011. The article also says that Prime Minister Zoran Zaev attended the opening together with Robert Singer, the executive vice president and chief executive of the World Jewish Congress. It […]

Alma Janka: The best remedy against misinformation is media education

Alma Janka: The best remedy against misinformation is media education

11 March 2019

In an interview with Portalb.mk, Alma Janka, chief editor of Faktoje.al, a fact-checking service in Albania, says that the best “remedy” against misinformation is media education. According to her, there should be a greater spirit of cooperation between the media and other actors that influence the media world, with respect for the code of professional […]

Bulgarian and Serbian media prematurely change the name of Macedonia

Bulgarian and Serbian media prematurely change the name of Macedonia

14 January 2019

While reporting on Saturday and yesterday about the vote in Macedonian Parliament, where four constitutional amendments were adopted, which, among other things, Macedonian MPs accepted the change of the name of the Republic of Macedonia, most of the media and some news agencies in neighboring Bulgaria and Serbia, wrote headlines and in part of the […]

Bulgarian media are resurrecting a nationalist myth by resurrecting the “Bloody Christmas” of 1945 in Macedonia

Bulgarian media are resurrecting a nationalist myth by resurrecting the “Bloody Christmas” of 1945 in Macedonia

10 January 2019

On Monday, Christmas day in Macedonia, a large part of the Bulgarian media recalled the so-called “Bloody Christmas” of January 7, 1945, when “1200 Bulgarians” were killed in the present territory of the Republic of Macedonia or the then Federal Democratic Republic of Macedonia. For instance, let’s take the article published by faktor.bg, where in […]

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