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Truthmeter.mk: National media do not cover two thirds of the citizens with correspondents from their places of residence

21 January 2022

Bulgaria’s and North Macedonia’s public broadcasting services signed cooperation agreement

Macedonian Radio and Marjan Cvetkovski were each fined 2.000 EUR for violation of the election silence

COVID-19 pushed the media sector reforms out of the agenda in North Macedonia

Macedonian Ministry of Information Society and Administration approves the new systematization for additional 460 job positions at MRT

Macedonian Ministry of Information Society and Administration approves the new systematization for additional 460 job positions at MRT

15 June 2020

Last week, the Ministry of Information Society and Administration (MISA) approved the new systematization of job positions at the Macedonian Radio Television (MRT), proposed by MRT’s Program Council. The Program Council’s Vice President, Vedat Memedalija, said that the new systematization was signed by MISA’s State Secretary, Adem Avziu and it plans an increase of new […]

Macedonian Radio and Television should employ more journalists and open more news correspondent bureaus in the country and abroad

Macedonian Radio and Television should employ more journalists and open more news correspondent bureaus in the country and abroad

25 May 2020

The Association of Journalists in Macedonia (AJM) and the Independent Syndicate of Journalists and Media Workers (SSNM) aren’t surprised by the data from the latest Rule book on internal organization and systematization of job positions at the Macedonian Radio Television (MRT) which indicates that the national broadcasting service lacks 469 employees out of which 202 […]

The research about media reforms conducted by Metamorphosis shows small achievements despite high expectations

The research about media reforms conducted by Metamorphosis shows small achievements despite high expectations

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 […]

The Macedonian Radio Television’s new Supervising Board was elected with a 5 year mandate

The Macedonian Radio Television’s new Supervising Board was elected with a 5 year mandate

10 February 2020

At the session that took place on the 6th of February, the Macedonian Radio television’s (MRT) Program Council elected the new Supervising Board with a 5 year mandate. As is stated at MRT’s web page, the mandate of the members of MRT’s Supervising Board will start on the 5th of March. Part of the elected […]

Association of Journalists of Macedonia requests an urgent restructuring of the national broadcasting service but not cutting its assets

Association of Journalists of Macedonia requests an urgent restructuring of the national broadcasting service but not cutting its assets

27 January 2020

The Association of Journalists of Macedonia (AJM) has called Meta.mk to react upon a published article about cutting budgetary assets for the year 2020 for the public broadcasting service, where it stresses that this decision by the Ministry of Information Society and Administration (MISA) is a dangerous precedent. “With the planed budget for 2020, instead […]

Association of Journalists of Macedonia demands that the call for election of new members at MRT’s Supervisory Board

Association of Journalists of Macedonia demands that the call for election of new members at MRT’s Supervisory Board

22 January 2020

The Association of Journalists of Macedonia (AJM) demand that the decision by Macedonian Radio Television’s (MRT) Program Council to call for election of members of the Supervisory Board of the Public Broadcasting Service in conditions when the mandate of the members of this Council has expired. Meta.mk published the news yesterday that on the 17th […]

Government gives negative opinion on MRT and its financial reports

Government gives negative opinion on MRT and its financial reports

9 May 2019

At the government’s 134th session,they expressed a negative opinion on an annual report for Macedonian Radio Television 2018, after Parliament requested it. The move follows the negative opinion from the Ministry for Information Society and Administration prepared in cooperation with the Ministry of Finance. The main problem in the negative assessment are losses at Macedonian […]

Macedonia rises 14 places in the World Press Freedom Index (info-graphic)

Macedonia rises 14 places in the World Press Freedom Index (info-graphic)

19 April 2019

Macedonia is at 95th place in the latest World Press Freedom Index by “Reporters without Borders” (RWB), thus jumping 14 places compared to the previous report, about 2018. With this, Macedonia fares better than the neighboring Bulgaria, which is an EU member and is at 111th place. The Reports without Borders main objection for this […]

The old but new MRT management received a 3 million euros boost (Infographic)

The old but new MRT management received a 3 million euros boost (Infographic)

17 July 2018

The parliamentary Committee on Transport and Communications yesterday accepted the proposal for re-balancing the budget of the Macedonian Radio Television, which will add another 3 million euros to the account of the public broadcaster, and MRT for 2018 will have a total of 20.8 million euros. If this is compared with the budgets that MRT […]

MRT’s annual budget to be increased by three million euros

MRT’s annual budget to be increased by three million euros

16 July 2018

The parliamentary Committee on Transport and Communications today accepted the proposal for re-balancing the budget for Macedonian Radio Television, and as a result, the public broadcaster will receive nearly three million euros on its account for this year. In 2018, MRT was originally meant to receive 700 million denars, and with the budget re-balancing, this […]

First TV duel on MTV with Zaev and Mickovski will take place tomorrow

First TV duel on MTV with Zaev and Mickovski will take place tomorrow

22 May 2018

Macedonian Television has organized tomorrow the first TV duel at 20:00h, with Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, SDSM leader, and the leader of the main opposition party VMRO-DPMNE, Christian Mickovski, MIA reports. Last week this TV duel was initiated by the leader of the opposition party, and the thrown glove was accepted by the prime minister. […]

VMRO-DPMNE demands NGOs do not give recommendations to AAVMU and MRT council members

VMRO-DPMNE demands NGOs do not give recommendations to AAVMU and MRT council members

17 May 2018

The parliamentary Committee on Transport, Communications and Environment held the fourth continuation of the amendment debate on the Bill on Amending the Law on Audio and Audiovisual Media Services today, which is in second reading. VMRO-DPMNE’s fifth amendment was up for discussion, which requires the deletion of the paragraph of the bill that obliges the […]

Mancevski: The Government wants an independent MRT and professional regulatory bodies

Mancevski: The Government wants an independent MRT and professional regulatory bodies

11 May 2018

The Government is committed to creating space for the media to inform the citizens impartially and objectively. Our goal is MRT to be a completely impartial and independent media outlet, and the regulatory bodies to be transparent, professional and competent. It is especially important the regulatory bodies and the national broadcaster to not have members […]

Boshnjakovski: New leadership of MRT to remain in office until new law is passed

Boshnjakovski: New leadership of MRT to remain in office until new law is passed

14 February 2018

The Government of Republic of Macedonia has nothing to do with the appointment of Macedonian Radio Television’s new director. This decision has been made by the old Program Council of the MRT, and the citizens of Republic of Macedonia “know very well, who the members are of that old Council, the way it used to […]

Marjan Cvetkovski reinstated as manager of MRTV out of 13 candidates

Marjan Cvetkovski reinstated as manager of MRTV out of 13 candidates

14 February 2018

The current general manager of the Macedonian Radio-Television (MRT), Marjan Cvetkovski, out of 12 applications was reinstated as the head of the public broadcasting service, confirmed for Meta, Smilka Janeska, President of the MRT’s Program Council. On the 26th of January, the Council issued a call for the election of a new director, because Cvetkovski’s […]

Government to set-up online-communication with citizens and not spend money on advertisements

Government to set-up online-communication with citizens and not spend money on advertisements

2 February 2018

The Government will communicate with the citizens through the social networks and the public broadcasting service (MRT), and it has no intentions whatsoever to spend budget money. This is the response provided by the government’s spokesperson Mile Boshnjakovski to a question from Meta asking whether the government will be paying for advertisements when communicating with […]

Mancevski: The largest part of the budget – 19.3 million euros – will go to MRT, MRD and AAVMU

Mancevski: The largest part of the budget – 19.3 million euros – will go to MRT, MRD and AAVMU

6 December 2017

The largest part of the budget for the Ministry of Information Society and Administration (MISA) in 2018 will be spent on “Macedonian Radio-Television” (MRT), Macedonian Broadcasting (MRD) and for the Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media Services (AAVMU) said Minister Damjan Manchevski today. He explained that the total budget of the Ministry for next year […]

Manchevski: The government will not interfere and the journalist should decide by themselves about the changes they want to see

Manchevski: The government will not interfere and the journalist should decide by themselves about the changes they want to see

24 November 2017

The government was lately called out that it wants to interfere in the media’s editorial policies. But the government doesn’t want to control the media nor it should, or it doesn’t want to be the driving engine of the reforms, but we wanted to provide the journalist’s with space and mechanism to make the reforms […]

Selmani: The government wants to act like an editor in chief with the media

Selmani: The government wants to act like an editor in chief with the media

17 November 2017

For the Association of the Journalists of Macedonia (AJM), the idea where the Government will be regulating the media content is absolutely unacceptable, stressed the President of AJN, Naser Selmani, during the meeting with OSCE’s new General Secretary Thomas Greminger, who is visiting the country. “it is contrary to the best practices in the European […]

Macedonia will participate in “Eurovision Song Contest 2018”

Macedonia will participate in “Eurovision Song Contest 2018”

17 November 2017

Next year, Macedonia will participate in “Eurovision Song Contest”, after MRT and the Portuguese Radio Television had reached an agreement. On the official Eurovision website, Macedonia now stands as one of 43 participating countries. Last week, on the list, it said that the change from the selection in 2017, is that Russia will be participating […]

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