16 January 2017
Last week the Directorate for Personal Data Protection (DZLP) received more initiatives to perform inspections on the media, and online information portals “to determine violations of the Law on the Protection of Personal Data”. The Directorate has indicated to all online portals and print media that they are required to initiate the deletion of personal […]
3 January 2017
On the holy night of the “mega-interview” for the online edition of the weekly news portal “Republika“, VMRO-DPMNE leader, Nikola Gruevski dedicated a huge part of the interview on the dispute with “George Soros and all the millions that he poured into Macedonia” and with the “corrupt journalists, media owners, professors, intellectuals, analysts, activists, led […]
19 November 2016
This morning, Macedonian portals had connection problems after their internet was down due to problems from the provider “UNET”, however, they were back online by 13:00pm. Aneta Peseva, the General Manager at “UNET” stated for “Meta” that on Monday they will have more detailed information about the technical reasons as to why the problems occurred. […]
31 October 2016
Media reporting has worsened on the fifth of the total of ten periods the Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media Service have for supervision until the scheduled elections on December 11. Halfway through the mandate of the ad hoc body, members have concluded that the media, rather from improving, reporting has worsened. One good thing […]
31 August 2016
The leader of the VMRO-DPMNE party, Nikola Gruevski left today’s leaders’ meeting early at the MPs clubhouse where details are being discussed regarding the elections which are expected to be held in December. He said that his party had accepted all conditions the SDSM had proposed only so they will not have the opportunity of […]
27 August 2016
The members of the temporary ad hoc body for monitoring the work of the media during the election campaign, still have not reached an agreement over the fifth member. Meetings will continue from Monday. The four members did not reach a consensus nor did they manage to reach the deadline for selecting the fifth member […]
22 April 2016
MEP and one of the mediators of the Przino Agreement, Richard Howitt in an interview for “Meta”, said that responsibility of the future of Macedonia is in the hands of the Macedonians politicians. He noted that the country is in a dangerous and unstable condition, and that politicians in Skopje, after yesterday’s warnings from Brussels, should […]
29 March 2016
Video and text articles from reports of the arrest of Ljube Boskoski on June 6, 2011, have mysteriously disappeared from the websites of the TV stations that at the time, had reported on the sensational story of the events outside restaurant “Vodenica”. Yesterday, Katica Janeva’s team of prosecutors announced that they have opened an official investigation dubbed “Tortura” […]
27 February 2016
SDSM is committed to working, and stand behind its views on ensuring fair and democratic elections, said today the leader of the opposition Zoran Zaev, at a public debate with young people in Bitola. “I am preparing the party and our members for elections, and I hope we will animate a large number of undecided […]
29 January 2016
The Special Public Prosecutor (SPP) in a statement to the public expressed concern about the way certain media have been reporting, connected with their work and that of the Special Public Prosecutor Katica Janeva. Despite the denial by certain media the SPP announced the initiation of civil proceedings for defamation and insult, as well as criminal […]
27 January 2016
We will withdraw our objections we have for the methodology of the renewal of the voters’ list, if VMRO-DPMNE agree to accept the proposals from the International Community to reform the media, said Damian Manchevski from SDSM. “If this is not acceptable to VMRO-DPMNE, then they really do not want to hold fair and democratic […]
27 December 2015
We do not know whether the negotiations will continue for the media at all. To be honest, I expected this behaviour from the government, because I believe this government needs the media most of all as they are important tools for maintaining power than, lets say, the prosecutor or the dismissal of a several ministerial […]
20 December 2015
The government, through the Agency of Audio and Audiovisual Services, which is under its control, carefully chooses to whom they grant permission for a new TV channel. “Kanal 77” for the third time have been rejected by the agency, and every time they request for a publishing license for television program services which is a predominantly informative general […]
20 December 2015
The Editorial collegiate of the daily newspaper “Vest” appealed to the international community regarding the latest developments with the newspaper with the contract ending of its Chief Editor Goran Mihajlovski. The appeal predicted that amid the negotiations on the freedom of the media under the Przhino Agreement, editorial staff are faced with a political attempt […]
6 December 2015
In the weekly interview show on “Radio Slobodna Evropa” the Dutch Ambassador W. Wouter Plomp was this weeks guest. He said during the interview that the clock is now ticking until elections, and it is extremely important for an agreement to be made for the media. Ambassador W. Plomp says that in connection with the […]
30 November 2015
Belgian facilitator Peter Vanhoutte at today’s briefing with reporters said that at the negotiations, the proposal presented to the International Community for the Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media, were going very slowly. Mr Vanhoutte said the law would apply less restrictions and penalties and would encourage the media to be more professional. He also […]
23 September 2015
“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 […]
12 June 2015
In a video address to the regional conference of BIRN in Sarajevo “Challenges to media freedom,” EU Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn sated that the situation of media freedom on the Balkans causes great concern and demands immediate attention. Hahn said that freedom of the media on the Balkans remains a point of particular concern for […]
28 May 2015
In the electronic media in the period from October to December 2014 a total of 5,306,107 euros are invested, and in the daily and weekly newspapers 657 759 euros, according to the analysis of public money in the media made by the Association of Journalists of Macedonia. In the analysis of AJM it is said […]
6 May 2015
“The Macedonian protesters demand the resignation of the Government, clashes with the police,” “At least 19 injured in anti-government protests in Macedonia”, “Police clashes with Macedonian protesters during anti-government crisis” are just some of the headlines of the foreign media, which are reporting information of “Associated Press”, AFP and “Reuters”. Foreign media say 19 people […]
