14 July 2015
In the second quarter of 2015 (April to June), the Center for Media Development (CMD) followed 28 court cases through 52 hearings. Since the adoption of the Law on civil liability for insult and defamation, in November 2012 until now, 54 cases of insult and defamation against journalists were completed, but the majority of verdicts […]
11 May 2015
„Meta“ News Agency reporter visited Kumanovo settlement Divo Naselje today. This suburb was the center of gunfights between police and terrorists during the weekend. Owners of the properties were in front of their homes, looking what was left.
29 April 2015
Macedonia has the worst result on the Balkans in terms of media freedom, reported “Freedom House” in the latest report on media freedom. “The new restrictive laws and violence against journalists contributed to the global decline in press freedom in 2014, bringing it to its lowest level in more than 10 years,” reads the report. […]
27 February 2015
Representative for media freedom at OSCE Dunja Mijatovik today called for an urgent investigation for the wiretapping of journalists in Macedonia, reports “Nova TV”. – Eavesdropping and surveillance of journalists is unacceptable. This further weakens the already fragile press freedom in the country – said Mijatovik. She is informed that on 25th of February, several […]
26 February 2015
“We demand Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, Interior Minister Gordana Jankulovska and the Director of the Security and Intelligence Service Sasho Mijalkov to resign. Regardless of who ordered wiretapping, the authorities failed to protect us,” responded the Association of Journalists of Macedonia (AJM). AJM reaction follows after the press conference of Zoran Zaev, on which the […]
25 February 2015
SDSM leader Zoran Zaev today announced the fourth “bomb”, audio recordings of tapped conversations. According to him, these conversations demonstrate the direct relationship between UBK and the media. Zaev said that more than 100 journalists of pro-government and critical media were tapped, but that especially were followed journalists who followed the events related to the […]
19 February 2015
The news industry has reacted strongly to the statements of EU Commissioner for accession negotiations, Johannes Hahn, given a few hours before his departure for Skopje, in which he expressed doubt about the rankings and methodology of “Reporters Without Borders” for freedom of media. To a question from a reporter from Serbia on the state […]
7 January 2015
Through a statement, Independent Union of journalists and media workers (SSNM) expressed the shock and disgust of today, as they say, barbaric attack of the editorial office of the French satirical weekly “Charlie Hebdo”, in which 12 people were killed, of who 10 journalists, and expressed condolences to the families of the victims and the […]
8 November 2014
Reporting crew of Albanian media group Top Channel, composed of several persons, was stopped in Mavrovo for police control, under the excuse that they didn’t have permission from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to shoot videos in Macedonia, newspaper Lajm reports. Reporters were held by police forces for an hour on the highway Vrben-Mavrovo for […]
