26 June 2023
When assessing the influence that throws North Macedonia off the tracks from the proclaimed process of democratic development directed towards adopting the values of the European Union (EU) and EU accession, one cannot ignore the manner in which Macedonian media present the contribution of certain EU Member-States and how media and political interpretations impact the […]
4 May 2023
Russian propaganda uses various forms of social media and channels to spread its propaganda. It is fighting a war in Ukraine, but also waging a hybrid war with many other countries. North Macedonia and the Balkans are the target of this propaganda, writes Truthmeter.mk. Under the content-sharing agreement between Truthmeter.mk and Meta.mk, we republish the […]
17 March 2023
The Russian Embassy in Skopje is a record-breaker when it comes to the number of Facebook posts. The country is of top regional interest of Kremlin – out of the whole Balkans, only the Russian diplomatic mission in Romania posts more frequently on Facebook. The hybrid war in North Macedonia by the Russian Secret Services […]
15 March 2023
One of the significant negative influences in North Macedonia that most frequently is entirely overlooked, is the influence of China. This influence becomes even greater in conditions of great corruption in the country, decreased trust of the citizens in the institutions and their ability to deal with the issue and somewhat of an institutional chaos […]
12 January 2022
A public debate took place today on the following subject: “To what extent do the media meet young people’s needs for informing?” , where there was a talk about the current situation in the media and their dedication toward the creation of programs and news for young people including the amount of trust that the […]
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 […]
29 October 2020
“The Critical Thinking for Mediawise Citizens – Crithink” project, implemented by Metamorphosis Foundation and Eurothink with the support from the European Union, as part of the Media Literacy Days in North Macedonia, yesterday held a public panel discussion on the results of research on media literacy and critical thinking conducted in the previous year. “The […]
27 April 2020
The Ministry of Transportation and Communications reminds that the Decision on closing the Skopje International Airport and the St. Paul the Apostle airport in Ohrid is still valid and they urge the citizens not to book plane tickets. Until the government reaches a new decision, the airports are closed for passenger transport and air traffic […]
27 March 2020
The situation with the media in the reformatory sector have been stopped midway and the media in Macedonia are facing with another entrapment like we had in the period-2015/16С due to the danger of depending on public assets. This was stated in the latest research about one of the key conditions that were set by […]
27 March 2020
“Oh, these newspapers are always lying”, my uncle’s wife said angrily after I told her that still no vaccine or medication has been approved to start being widely used against COVID – 19, the pandemic disease that’s still keeping the world in anguish. She had been reading news from some unreliable news sites in Kosovo with her […]
12 March 2020
As a member of the Media Freedom Coalition, Macedonia will be working together with other countries to promote freedom of press on local and global levels. This was adopted at the first meeting of the for Media Freedom Coalition consisting of 35 member countries signatories, held its first meeting of senior officials on the 29th […]
20 January 2020
With the new National Strategy for Prevention of Corruption, the Anti-Corruption Committee demands that the financing of the paid political campaigning of parties from the budget during elections to be abolished . It stressed that the budgetary financing of a paid political program for an election campaign is a potential risk of corruption and producing […]
8 January 2020
The State Electoral Commission (SEC) plans to spend 571.500.000 denars (9.292.683 euros) for the forthcoming parliamentary elections. Most of these funds or around 400 million denars (6.504.065 euros), are planned to be spent on financing the parties’ media campaigns that will be taking part in the parliamentary elections. -For this purpose, around 3.800.000 euros were […]
13 December 2019
The Registry f professional online media that the Association of Journalists of Macedonia and the Council of Media Ethics of Macedonia (CMEM) will be promoting this month has caused a great interest and support from journalists and media professionals, that were attending the conference organized by the Council of Europe “The Last Call for Qualitative […]
28 November 2019
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama sends final warning to Internet portals due to spreading false news about earthquakes which in turn increased panic among the population. This arrives in the aftermath of the tragic earthquake on the 26th of November, informs Portalb.mk. “I warn for the last time on news portals and channels that under […]
28 October 2019
The biggest enemy of the lie is the truth, and therefore the efforts and the policies of all concerning parties should be directed towards providing channels for spreading the truth. This was stressed today by Marjan Zabrchanec, the prime minister’s special advisor for public relations during the third forum for managing the internet that took […]
13 September 2019
The Minister of Information Society and Administration, Damjan Manchevski, spoke at a panel session on the subject of “Politics and the Media” as part of the biggest media conference “EU – Western Balkans Media Days” in Podgorica. He talked about the reforms, the new Law on Audio and Audio-Visual Media Services, including the challenge of […]
26 August 2019
The repeating of the truth several times in order for the readers and the viewers can differentiate what is fake news and what is not, at the moment is the only way by which the politicians can fight against fake news, said Prime Minister Zoran Zaev during today’s press conference at the government with the […]
18 July 2019
The recent happenings with the detention of Bojan Jovanovski, manager of the 1TV is causing serious doubt of serious misuse by individuals of the media for personal gain, states the Association of Journalists (AJM). “This development of the events related to 1TV represent a blow over the reputation of the professional journalism, and if there […]
11 July 2019
Srđan Puhalo je doktor psiholoških nauka. Njegovo polje interesovanja su istraživanja javnog mnjenja, socijalna i politička psihologija. Njegovo polje interesovanja su istraživanja javnog mnjenja, socijalna i politička psihologija. On je građanski aktivista, kritičar stanja u Bosni i Hercegovini, a osobito u Republici Srpskoj i redovni kolumnista/bloger portala „Frontal.ba“ “Meta.mk” je s Puhalom razgovarala o dezinformacijama […]
