MDC’s Publications

First Quarterly Report for 2024: Instead of systemic, we again got partial solutions

Instead of the expected comprehensive review of the media legislation, in the first quarter of 2024 we again got partial interventions which are, themselves, incomplete and raise more issues and questions than the...

Verification Handbook for disinformation and media manipulation

The Media Development Centre, with the aim to assist the journalists in North Macedonia to deal with the pressures of the new, chaotic information eco-system, prepared a translation of the “Verification Handbook f...

Big Tech and Local Media in the Western Balkans

The new media system being created before our eyes is characterised by the dominance of content distributors. These distributors have replaced content creators as the dominant force dictating relationships in the ...

How to consolidate the audiovisual media services market

The process of media reforms, based on the recommendations of the group of experts from the European Union compiled in the Priebe Report and the EU Urgent Reform Priorities proceeds slowly and, so far, rather haphazar...

How to get quality local reporting in the digital era

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Monitoring Report for 1st Quarter of 2020

The need for comprehensive reforms of the media sector in the Republic of North Macedonia, which has existed for quite some time if not from the very moment the media system was created, was formally recognized and co...

Monitoring Report Quarters 3 and 4 2019

The need for comprehensive reforms of the media sector in the Republic of North Macedonia, which has existed for quite some time if not from the very moment the media system was created, was formally recognized and co...

Policy document – Regulation of Media Ownership

The Media Development Centre is continuously involved in the ongoing public debate on the necessary reforms in the media sector in the Republic of Macedonia. MDC believes that the adoption of the changes to the audiov...

MRT – Future of the Non-existent Present

The Second Priebe Report, that is, the “Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: Assessment and recommendations of the Senior Experts’ Group on systemic Rule of Law Issues 2017”, published in September 2017, places the ...