Association of the European Journalists (AEJ) in Bulgaria invokes an investigation and revision of the state funding for four Bulgarian media. The required inspection will have to check if there is any conflict of interests in the contracts of the Ministry of Culture with private companies and media concerning Bulgarian presidency of the Council of the EU in 2018. AEJ is shocked by the decision to spend public money by funding 4 connected media companies – 'Standard Daily', 'Standard Agency', 'Blitz Agency' and 'Pik Agency'.
The amendments to the media law, proposed by the three opposition mps and oriented to the improvement of the law, raising the professional standard and limiting the interference of governement on the media sphere, have not been adopted by the Parliamentary Assembly
Broadcast bans, pull offs and censorship increase constantly. Journalists on trial demanding life-imprisonment. European Court of Human Rights and Constitutional Court however sometimes rule against the mainstream.
DPS members manage to create amendments, but they’re unwilling to talk with the press about it. They rather prefer to work from a shadow with certain NGOs, accountable only to them and in their interest, not in the public interest.
The Committee for the protection of Journalists, based in New York, was granted the status of Ngo, with an accreditation at the United Nations. The decision was taken with a resolution approved yesterday by the Economic and social council of the UN. The council gave the Committee “a special advisory status as an Ngo“.
The Turkish judiciary today issued detention warrants against 42 journalists, charged with being members of the organisation responsible for a coup attempt against president Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The Belgrade Court of Appeal upheld the ruling issued last December against the site E-Novine, found guilty of defaming the Montenegrin journalist Milka Tadić-Mijović. E-Novine, an online tabloid, ceased publication on 22 July.
"Uncensored Lies", the exhibition organized by the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) Prime Minister Vučić, brings together several thousand articles ... hostile to those in power. The goal: to show that the press is free in Serbia. But the effect is opposite to that expected.
