The Macedonian civil society sees no visible activities in order to achieve the urgent reform priorities relating to media. According to insiders, there are indications about lack of professionalism of the media regulators.
Montenegrin investigative journalist Jovo Martinovic is being prosecuted for alleged involvment in and help to a criminal sindicate, which he was investigating as a journalist. The case is based on questionable evidence and montenegrin journalists union as well as foreign press organisations have urged the authorities to guarantee a fair trial and respect the fact that his contacts with members of criminal syndicates were a consequence of his journalistic work.
Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic has won the lawsuit for complaint against the weekly NIN for the text "Nebojsa Stefanovic, the main masked man of Savamala".
The slovenian ministry of Culture formulated a new media strateg in order to bing improvements particularly in the area of journalists' working conditions.
The number of attacks on journalists in Serbia in the past three years has increased, and the response of institutions that should enable to improve the situation is not enough, according to the report of the Regional Platform of the Western Balkans.
Reporters sans Frontières urge Bulgarian authorities to protect Dimitar Stoyanov. The investigation website Bivol's journalist has been threatened seriously and persistently since one year.
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