Reporters Without Borders

"Censorship in Serbia is easy to prove" - RWB

BELGRADE -- Executive director of Reporters Without Borders Christian Mihr has said that "censorship in Serbia is neither direct nor transparent, but is easy to prove."

Mihr is one of the authors of the organization's recently published report about media freedom in the world, the Beta agency said.

Mihr, of Reporters Without Borders, who participated in compiling the recent report on media freedom worldwide, said independent media and journalists in Serbia came under serious pressure in 2014.

Johannes Hahn, the EU Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement, said in Brussels on Monday that the EU could not react to claims about violations of press freedom in Serbia without seeing concrete evidence.

Bulgaria is situated right between Nepal and the Republic of Congo in the report on world press freedom, published in 2015. Meanwhile, Greece, Kosovo and Albania score slightly higher, but are in the same group of countries with moderately dependent press.

The report indicated a drop in the ranking of Bulgaria, currently on the 106th spot, from the 100th place it took in 2014.

Correction: Last year's RSF report published by mistake

BELGRADE -- Tanjug said on Tuesday that it "two days ago" mistakenly published the Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index for 2013 as "the latest report."

Reporters Without Borders (RWB) released its annual report on abuses of journalists in 2014 on Tuesday.

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Reporters without Borders representative Olivier Basille has said that the threats against journalists and the absolute lack of media ownership transparency are among the reasons why Bulgaria ranks so low in the 2014 World Press Freedom Index of the NGO.

BELGRADE - Electronic media in Serbia interrupted their programme on Saturday as part of the event Five Minutes of Thunderous Silence and read a statement by the Journalists' Association of Serbia (UNS) that says the media freedom in the country is at threat and that journalism has never been in a more difficult position economically.

"Progress in world rankings masks media's misery"

BELGRADE -- Freedom of the media is under threat because journalism has never been in a worse economic position, warns the Journalists' Association of Serbia (UNS).

B92's Stanković on "100 Information Heroes" list

PARIS -- Reporters Without Borders has for the first time published a list of profiles of “100 Information Heroes” to mark World Press Freedom Day, May 3.