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Regional conference: Media and Public Interest – Risks and Challenges

The Media Development Center has the pleasure to invite you to take part in the regional conference “Media and Public Interest – Risks and Challenges”, which will take place on Wednesday, June 3, 2015, at the “Holiday...

Boyko Boev: Macedonia’s Media Statutes resemble ships in Vardar River

[caption id="attachment_1208" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Boyko Boev at a training[/caption] In 2011 Thomas Bingham, at the time the most senior judge in England and Wales, published The Rule of Law, which has...

Freedom House ranks Macedonia Worst in the Region in Freedom of the Press 2015 Report

Freedom of the Press 2015, the latest edition of an annual report published by Freedom House since 1980, lists all countries of the Western Balkans as “Partially Free” and expressed concerns over the worrying pattern ...

Report No. 5 Monitoring of defamation action cases

The Media Development Centre (MDC), under the auspices of the USAID Programme for Strengthening of Independent Media in the Republic of Macedonia and the Project for Media Legal Reform and Responsible Media, in the pe...

Threats against Jovanovski are Threaths Against Freedom of Thought in Macedonia

Many CSOs and individual citizens condemned, in a joint public statement, the threats against journalist Borjan Jovanovski and his family last Tuesday, April 21, 2015. Following is the full text of the statement: [...

Debate: Macedonian Media System Needs “Resetting”

The participants in the public debate “What Kind of Media System Macedonia Needs?”, organized on April 2, 2015, at Holiday Inn Hotel’s “Millennium 2” hall, by the Media Development Center and the Foundation Open Socie...

Debate: What kind of media system Macedonia Needs?

The Media Development Center will organize a debate on the subject “What kind of media system Macedonia needs?”, on Thursday, April 2, 2015, at the Holiday Inn Hotel in Skopje, in Millennium 2 Hall. Having in mind ...

RSF: Freedom of Information Declines Accross the Globe

Macedonia remains the worst ranked of all countries of Europe and Western Balkans in the World Press Freedom Index 2015, the annual report prepared by Reporters Without Borders, in spite of the fact that it advanc...