Tag: journalists
Macedonia 23.08.23 | 19:02

Tetovo: Journalists threatened while recording a burning dump site

A crew from Koha TV was stopped from recording at а dump site in Brvenica, near Tetovo, where fire is causing serious pollution affecting the city. Over the past several days citizens of Tetovo complained about the awful smell of burning plastic. But when a TV crew tried to record the fire, they were...

Macedonia 17.02.23 | 15:44

Journalist association: The Government created a huge PR operation that affects the freedom of the press

Journalists who protested in downtown Skopje, accused the Government of creating “the largest PR operation in the country” that tries to do the job of the free press by issuing bland statements and avoiding answers to the actual questions. The ZNM association of journalists and the SSNM union...

Macedonia 17.02.23 | 10:21

Journalist association calls for a protest gathering in front of the Government

The ZNM association of journalists will hold a protest march today, accusing the Government of worsening press freedom and the ability of journalists and reporters to do their work. In its announcement ZNM speaks broadly about “aggressive state PR that takes jobs from journalists, local media who...

Macedonia 03.02.23 | 22:45

MAN association of journalists condemns the Government for banning critical news outlets from the important event tomorrow

The Macedonian Association of Journalists (MAN) called on the Government to allow all media outlets to report from the honoring of Goce Delcev – after Republika was among the group of media outlets who had their requests for accreditation denied. We are notified that a dozen independent and professional...

Macedonia 01.05.22 | 21:26

Journalists have miserable work conditions, union says

The SSNM union of journalists informed that 7 out of 10 journalists in Macedonia receive salaries that are below the national average. Four out of ten are hired on a fixed term contract and a third of them have received threats for doing their work. According to Pavle Belovski from SSNM, the data shows...

Macedonia 17.02.22 | 20:05

Gostivar man who attacked journalists with an ax briefly detained, will be charged

Gostivar police detained the man who attacked two journalists yesterday in a village near Gostivar. The attacker pushed the journalists and chased them with an ax. They were in the village of Gjurgeviste to report on the poor working conditions in the local school. The police released the attacker, but...

Macedonia 17.08.21 | 17:20

Media Agency condemns rude conduct toward journalists during the protest on Sunday

The AVMU news agency condemned the conduct of protesters on Sunday, when news crews were shouted at. We condemn all forms of denigration and verbal attacks on the press and we ask that the dignity of the journalist profession is honored, the agency said. The protest was held to resist the expanding vaccine...

Macedonia 27.07.21 | 17:18

Proposal to reduce fines for slander and better protect journalists from assault

The Justice Ministry plans to propose changes to the Criminal Code that will reduce fines for slander while making assaults on journalists a more serious offence. Under the proposal, journalists will pay a maximum fine of 400 EUR for slander, down from 2,000. The fine for editors will be capped at 2,000...

Macedonia 10.06.21 | 15:29

Attacks and threats against journalists tripled this year compared to last year

The report on the indicators of the degree of media freedom and safety of journalists in Macedonia, prepared by the Association of Journalists of Macedonia (AJM), shows that in all three main indicators of the report, such as the legal framework for media freedom, the position of journalists in newsrooms...

Macedonia 23.03.21 | 17:51

100 journalists from Macedonia get AstraZeneca jab in Serbia

Organized by the Macedonian Association of Journalists (MAN) and the Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS), 100 journalists and media workers from Macedonia got the AstraZeneca jab in Vranje, Serbia. Some of them published photos of the vaccination and confirmed that they received the first dose...

Macedonia 20.03.21 | 19:56

100 Macedonian journalists to get vaccinated in Serbia organized by MAN

At the request of the Macedonian Association of Journalists (MAN) in cooperation with the partner Serbian Association of Journalists through the office of the President of Serbia, AstraZeneca vaccines have been provided for a total of 100 media workers who will apply for vaccination at the association’s...

Macedonia 14.02.21 | 20:26

MAN calls on the Government to provide vaccines for exposed journalists

The Macedonian Association of Journalists (MAN) called on the Government to provide vaccines for the journalists and photo-reporters, as preparations are put in place to begin a very modest vaccination of at-risk categories of citizens. Due to the nature of their work, journalists, reporters, cameramen,...

Macedonia 11.06.20 | 14:42

Brother of a top SDSM supporting journalist publishes a “black list” of critical journalists

The politically linked brother of a top SDSM party supporting journalist issued a series of threats aimed at journalists who are critical of the Zaev regime. Vanco Ordanoski, an IT entrepreneur who has profited off of his links to the ruling SDSM party, is the brother of journalist Saso Ordanoski, one...

Macedonia 11.06.20 | 13:06

SDSM’s Propaganda Minister announces that only select online media outlets will receive corona subsidies

The Government’s propaganda Minister Robert Popovski announced that media outlets who want to apply for subsidies offered to companies because of the coronavirus linked economic downturn will have to meet a set of criteria that will be judged by the Government. Popovski said that online media outlets...

Macedonia 19.03.20 | 12:44

MAN asks for measures to help journalists reporting from the frontline of the epidemic

The Macedonian Association of Journalists (MAN) called on the Government to provide help to the media outlets who are struggling to continue to operate during the epidemic and to inform the public on how to stay safe. Just like the doctors, the police and the military, journalists can’t keep a...

Macedonia 25.06.19 | 17:09

Zaev’s “transparency minister” reportedly told colleagues to get away from the press, issues a denial

Robert Popovski, the former journalist who is now Zaev’s minister in charge of transparency, was overheard today instructing fellow ministers to get away from a press event, before the “journalists crucify us”, the IRL news site reported. It’s better they get angry at us for leaving...