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Whereas foreign media ownership is perceived as advantageous for media outlets and journalists, Bulgarian owners are perceived as investors with short-term vision who strive for immediate profits.
SEEMO's country-specific websites are designed for specialists and a public at large interested in acquiring updated and in-depth knowledge of media issues and press freedom.
The International Press Institute condemns attacks on the offices of Turkish-language newspaper Zaman in Paris and in the German city of Cologne, allegedly carried out by supporters of the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party.
he excessive fines against Turkish-language weeklies could imply their closure and even imprisonment for their journalists.
The scandal caused by the Gorilla file – reportedly named by an unknown SIS analyst – has rocked Slovakia for weeks.
Translating from Serbian into Croatian, or vice verse, would be like translating German films in Austria, Austrian films in Germany or Argentina or Cuban productions in Spain.
The exact number of assaulted journalists, either by protesters or the police, is not known.
The source of threats and pressures is diversified: politicians, business groups, often linked to mafia-style business dealings, religious organisations, actors, musicians, etc.
Due to his balanced reporting and investigations into war crimes committed during the 1990s, Drago Hedl has been targeted by law suits and was criticised by Croatian nationalist politicians.
SEEMO, an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), welcomes the prompt police action against three men who physically attacked a TV crew from TV Vijesti.
The objective of the press freedom mission was to assess the media situation following a series of media closures, regulation changes and protests.
This is the fourth attack against Turkish-language newspaper Afrika in 2011.
Local media in Serbia are continuously pressured by politicians, business leaders and religious figures.
The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation, an affiliate of the International Press Institute, condemns the attack against journalist Sasho Dikov.
SEEMO condemns the use of hate speech in Bulgarian media, and 'online lynching', to target Mirolyuba Benatova
SEEMO condemns an attack on a TV Tutin crew and urges Serbia's authorities to protect journalists, especially in local communities.
SEEMO, an affiliate of the International Press Institute, condemns political and police pressure on investigative journalists who have revealed alleged illegal financing of the governing political party.
SEEMO condemns the brutal beating of Zorana Bojovic, correspondent for the Serbian news agency BETA in the Russian Federation.
SEEMO believes that physical attacks are not the way to express dissatisfaction with media coverage.
The criminal code has frequently been used in defamation cases in Serbia and consequently many media outlets prefer self-censorship to pursuing sensitive issues.
Hedl, who works for the Zagreb-daily Jutarnji List, has been writing about war crimes for the past 20 years.
SEEMO believes that a healthy democracy can only function properly if there are critical media and public broadcasters that serve the public interest.
Two journalists' organisations denounced the move of the executive board of Magyar Szo as "an attempt to reconvert the newspaper into a party mouthpiece".
Free movement of journalists has to be guaranteed and the authorities should make an additional effort in order to find those behind the attacks on Turkish-Cypriot newspaper Afrika.
The establishment of public service broadcasters has proved to be a very difficult task in some Eastern European countries.
The Moldovan police must reveal the names of those who allegedly used fake newspapers, thereby violating copyright, to strike political points.
The fight for press freedom is a daily struggle. We still have a long way to go.
SEEMO condemns the recent bomb attack targeting Mutlu Esendemir, the news editor of the Turkish-Cypriot Kanal T Television and a reporter for the Turkish language daily Kibris.
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