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A 20-year-old man was taken into custody on August 7 after two days earlier being filmed at a national conference of Bulgarian Prime Minister’s GERB party assaulting a reporter, grabbing […]
Bulgaria’s broadcast media regulator the Council for Electronic Media (CEM) said on August 6 that it was seriously concerned about the increasin ...
According to an independent study by the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom, there has been a general stagnation or deterioration in terms o ...
A total of 233 newspapers were published in Bulgaria in 2019, a decrease of 16 compared with the previous year, the National Statistical Institute (NS ...
Three people have been charged in connection with the March 17 serious assault of Slavi Angelov, Editor-in-Chief of weekly 168 Chassa, Prosecutor-General Ivan Geshev told a briefing on April 24. […]
Arrests were made in a special operation in central Sofia on April 23, with one of the cases under investigation being the serious assault of Slavi Angelov, Editor-in-Chief of weekly […]
Additional European Union action is needed to make sure EU help reaches the ravaged media and culture sectors, members of the European Parliament’s committee on culture and education said in […]
Reporters Without Borders, RSF, has again ranked Bulgaria lowest in the European Union in its 2019 media freedom ranking, released on April 21 2020. Bulgaria ranked 111th out of 180 […]
The National Council of Religious Communities in Bulgaria and public broadcaster Bulgarian National Television (BNT) have signed an agreement for the broadcaster to step up airtime for religious programming. The […]
Police are pursuing several lines of inquiry in connection with the severe assault of Bulgarian investigative journalist Slavi Angelov, but believe it was most likely connected with his work. Masked […]
