Mass media

One of Mexico's most popular journalists said March 19 she suspects the government was behind her firing because of her report about the first lady's controversial purchase of a mansion.
      

Four Italian women have benefited from the organs of a 17-year-old Greek student who died after falling from a second-floor balcony in Rome earlier this month during a school trip to the Italian capital, Corriere della Sera reported on Thursday.

Turkey?s media watchdog, the Supreme Board of Radio and Television (RTÜK), fined TV stations a total of 37 million liras over the course of 2014, according to its annual activity report.

The report also revealed that the watchdog received over 120,000 complaints from viewers last year, a rise of 2.3 percent from 2013.

A German film company on Tuesday announced plans to produce a movie about the life of German Chancellor Angela Merkel. If the schedule goes according to plan, the film will be released in 2017, coinciding with parliamentary elections in Germany.

As Novinite.com already reported, Bulgarian intellectuals, politicians and public figures have launched an initiative with the stated aim of making full use of the international authority of the country's last King and former Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to its benefit.

BELGRADE - Serbia and Republika Srpska are observing a day of mourning on Sunday for the seven people killed in the crash of a helicopter that was rescuing a five-day-old baby whose life was in danger.

"The Lesson" (Bulgarian: Urok), a 2014 Bulgarian-Greek film directed by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov, has won four awards at the 19th Sofia International Film Festival.

"The Lesson snatched four awards at a ceremony on Saturday evening.

The film received three awards by international juries and the audience award.

A controversial clause granting Turkey's media watchdog the authority to fine TV channels that violate election broadcast limitations, while de-authorizing the High Election Board (YSK), has been withdrawn from the related omnibus bill at parliament.

Turkey?s media watchdog will be given the authority to fine TV channels that violate election broadcast limitations, according to a new omnibus bill presented to parliament, de-authorizing the High Election Board (YSK).

The circulation of most of Romania's daily newspapers and weeklies continued to fall in the last quarter of 2014, as the country struggles with the economic downturn and a crisis in the newspaper industry continues.