Six newspapers in Bulgaria closed in 2018 – statistics institute
A total of 239 newspapers were published in Bulgaria in 2018, six fewer than the year before, the National Statistical
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Bulgaria’s child protection agency probes unlawful reporting on ‘radicalised’ teenager
Bulgaria’s State Agency for Child Protection has an initiated an investigation into disclosures by a website of personal details of
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Bulgaria’s European elections: Commission fines TV stations for breaking law on opinion polls
Bulgaria’s Central Election Commission said on June 4 that bTV was to be fined for breaking the law by announcing
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Bulgaria’s 2019 European elections: 3.2M leva spent on paid media coverage
Parties, coalitions and independent candidates that stood in Bulgaria’s May 26 2019 European Parliament elections spent a total of more
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Bulgaria’s Commission for Protection of Personal Data in key stance on media reporting
Bulgaria’s Commission for Protection of Personal Data has issued its opinion on personal information that the media can lawfully publish,
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11 NGOs report Bulgarian TV interview with far-right leader to Council for Electronic Media
Eleven Bulgarian NGOs have approached the country’s statutory broadcast regulator the Council for Electronic Media over a television interview in
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Head of Bulgarian National Television resigns after court upholds drink-driving conviction
At a special sitting on April 24, Bulgaria’s statutory broadcast regulator the Council for Electronic Media (CEM) voted unanimously to
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Association of European Journalists – Bulgaria responds to RSF media freedom index
Although for the first time in many years Bulgaria did not fall in the media freedom index of Reporters Without
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Reporters Without Borders: ‘Journalism is now dangerous in Bulgaria’
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has again ranked Bulgaria as lowest among European Union countries in its annual media freedom index,
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