Severe reactions came from journalist associations on last night's attack on TV Telma's journalist Pavle Belovski, assailed while performing professional duties.
Investigative journalism in Macedonia reached the bottom, journalists face obstacles and pressure. There's need of a higher awareness about freedom of speech, appealed experts at the conference "New Generation of investigative journalists - Challenges and Perspectives".
Researching and reporting on war crimes is still a big challenge for journalists in region. Even when journalists want to write objectively and professionally about this topic, they often don’t have a support from their editors.
Politicians are using online portals to spread false information in support of their campaigns to denigrate oppositors. Some journalists participate in this activity ruining the foundations of free media.
The publication of the biggest left-leaning newspaper in Hungary, Nepszabadsag was suspended last week. The owner of the newspaper, a company called Mediaworks, which is controlled by an Austrian businessman Heinrich Pecina claims the suspension is a purely commercial decision, because Nepszabadsag was generating losses for the past couple of years. However many journalists as well as other members of the public claim there is a political context to the decision.
Killings, imprisonments and other methods to silence journalists happens all too often, in Europe as elsewhere in the world. In this editorial, Mogens Blicher Bjerregård highlights the importance of being on the side of those who are threatened.
Experiences of journalists working in the newsrooms in Bosnia and Herzegovina indicate that editorial policy of the media outlet and in(direct) pressure of political and economic elite create an atmosphere in which it has been cleared up what are preferred topics and figures, and what are those that journalists shouldn’t write about.
