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An apparent rush to elect board members of Albania's Audio-visual Media Authority before the next parliament meets in September is prompting concerns that the ruling Socialists are hurrying to fill the board with political sympathisers.
A Bucharest Court handed down suspended jail sentences to the two former heads of the Police Academy – who had instructed a subordinate to threaten a journalist who was investigating plagiarism at the institution.
The Association of Journalists of Kosovo, considers completely unacceptable the offensive language of an official of the Directorate of Education in Prishtina.
In addition to being given the opportunity to pay about 1.52 billion dinars in tax debt in instalments, Pink TV has also been granted at least 1.28 billion dinars worth of export loans by the state.
Freedom House Organisation: Freedom in Bulgaria is still mainly hampered by political corruption and non-transparent media ownership.
The Euronews Serbia media group announced that it was beginning to broadcast through Pay TV platforms.
Jelena Zoric, N1 Belgrade TV reporter, received the Independent Association of Serbia’s Journalists (NUNS) ‘Dejan Anastasijevic’ award for her achievements in investigative journalism.
The Special Appeal Court in Tirana has overruled a first instance court order for the seizure of equipment of Lapsi.al media outlet following their revelation of a data leak of more than 910,000 Albanian citizens’ personal data, allegedly used by the Socialist Party.
President Milanovic has been slated by unions for sparring with public broadcaster reporters in the city of Split, where he accused them of being tricksters and political 'mercenaries'.
The Association of Journalists of Macedonia, the Independent Trade Union of Journalists and Media Workers, the Macedonian Institute for Media and the Council of Media Ethics of Macedonia are reacting to the government’s public announcement to amend the legislation that will end the ban on advertising in the media by public institutions (Article 102 of LAAMS).