European Federation of Journalists

AJM

Mission to Skopje

The EFJ GS AJM will attend several meetings in Skopje, in the framework of the EFJ-AJM project.

Macedonian Council of Media Ethics Regional Conference

Regional conference „Freedom of expression, media freedoms and self-regulation “ Date: November 6th, 2018 Location: Bitola Agenda 10:45 – 11:00 Registration of participants 11:00 – 11:20 Introductory speeches Marina Tuneva, Executive Director of the Council of Media Ethics (CMEM) Freek Janmaat, EU Delegation Katerina Sinadinovska, President of the Managing Board, Council of Media Ethics 11:20 –11:40 Networks of cooperation between journalists and civil society for protection of democracy and freedom of expression Ricardo Gutiérrez, General Secretary of the European Federation of Journalists 11:40 –12:00 Media, ethics and self-regulation Sefer Tahiri, member of the Press Complaints Commission, CMEM 12:00 – 12:20…

Macedonia: Election Commission authorised to fine media for ‘Unbalanced Reporting’

Several amendments to the Electoral Code were passed  by the Macedonian Parliament on 25 July 2018 in a fast-track procedure, as a result of a political agreement between the leaders of the four main political parties. An amendment to the Electoral Code empowers the State Election Commission to register and monitor online media reporting on the elections. The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) supports its Macedonian affiliates, the Association of Journalists of Macedonia (AJM-ZNM), the Independent Union of Journalists and Media Workers (SSNM), joined by the Council of Media Ethics of Macedonia, in criticising the new Electoral Code, as the…

Macedonia: It is high time to stop violence against journalists!

Following ECPMF-EFJ-SEEMO-OBCT fact-finding mission to Macedonia, on 25th-28th April 2017, the four organisations issued this statement today, regarding rising violence against journalists in Macedonia: We hereby express our deep concerns about the yesterday‘s violent attacks against journalists in the parliament of the Republic of Macedonia. From the beginning of 2016 until yesterday at least 21 attacks against journalists in Macedonia have been registered by the Association of Journalists of Macedonia (ZNM), out of a total of several dozens within the last years. All this clearly demonstrates a rising trend in violence against journalists. The state of media freedom in the…

Macedonia: journalists attacked during protest

UPDATE (14.03.2017): Another attack against journalists happened on March 11 in Skopje. TV 24 crew was at first verbally abused and then one of their journalists Hristijan Banevski was hit in the head with a stick, during the protest “For a Unified Macedonia”. UPDATE (06.03.2017): Two more attacks against journalists took place in Macedonia after the TV crew was beaten during the protest. On March 1 Branko Trickovski was verbally abused by two young men near his home. The retired journalist is famous for his criticism of VMRO-DPMNE party. One of the attackers shouted at Trickovski and called him a traitor,…

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