Two American journalists, working for WDBJ7 channel, were shot dead while taking interviews in a shopping mall in the the city of Moneta, Virginia. The killer, a fired employee of the same tv channel, later attempted to commit suicide and is now in hospital in critical conditions.
Government of Montenegro admitted that it's not equally financing media and NGOs, damaging those who are criticizing it. Pobjeda for example got ten times more money than Vijesti.
The Macedonian Journalist Association expressed its concerns about the decision of the authorities to freeze the bank accounts of “Telma tv”, in the framework of an investigation for embezzlement against corporate executives of the “Makpetrol” company, owner of the tv. According to the Association, this measure puts at risk the existence of the media, and threatens to leave many journalists jobless, thus impoverishing the already fragile media environment in Macedonia.
Saša Leković, President of the Croatian Association of Journalists, talks about the Association, media freedom and journalism in Croatia and in the Balkans, the changes in journalist's profession and the need for a change.
According to Twitter Transparency Report, in the first six months of 2015, 408 out of 442 content removal requests by court decision came from Turkey; 125 twitter accounts were suspended, 1667 tweets were removed.
Curiosity is inherent to every human being, but newspapers encouraged it to the point that it turns into an insatiable impulse. This consideration, which may seem banal at first, explains the current all-mighty power of the media. One thing is to satisfy curiosity as a "human, all too human" characteristic, another one is to exploit and manipulate it for the purpose of profit or control.
The Council for Media Ethics received more than 40 appeals from citizens, about various violations in the media, such as hate speech, unbalanced reporting, discrimination of various groups. The Council for Media Ethics is an independent body which monitors the work of media outlets.
Montenegrian tax payers are going to pay the debt of the newspaper Pobjeda, after it break the Media law and did not publish the reaction of the NGO MANS to its articles.
