media

Care for the Public Interest or Introduction of Indirect Subsidies for the Audiovisual Media Sector

The draft law on changes to the LAAVMS (we first saw the text in July of this year, when we received it through the informal communication channels of the community of professional associations and civil society organ...

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...

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...

Policy Document: Future interventions in media legislation

MDC has made contributions to the process of resolution of some of the burning issues that are in the focus of the ongoing process of reforms of media legislation in Macedonia. This brief document aims to offer additi...

Comments to the Draft-Law on Changes and Amendments to the LAAVMS

The Media Development Centre has prepared and submitted comments to the latest version of the Draft-Law on Changes and Amendments to the Law on Audio and Audiovisual Media Services, through the National Electronic Reg...

Verification Handbook for Investigative Jouranlism translated into Macedonian

From the moment it emerged for public use, the Internet has proven itself as a vast source of information in all areas of social life. That wealth of information is of great use and value for journalists, especially i...

Policy Brief: Media and Electoral Legislation – Amended version

Media Development Centre prepared a policy document with proposals for legal changes that would ensure fair and equal media presentation of electoral campaigns. Media coverage and reporting on electoral campaign, i...

Media sustainability in the new digital environment

The Media Development Centre, 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 2014 and 201...

Monitoring of Implementation of Media Legislation – Third Quarterly Report for 2015

The Media Development Centre (MDC), under the programme for monitoring of the implementation of the Law on Audio and Audiovisual Media Services (LAAVMS) and the Law on Media (LM), monitored the work of the Agency for ...

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...