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Bulgarian media express solidarity with Charlie Hebdo

January 8, 2015January 13, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Media

A demonstration by staff of Bulgarian National Television outside the public broadcaster’s Sofia head office on January 8 2015 was

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Bulgarian culture ministry officials, public broadcasters’ chiefs boycott Binev committee

December 4, 2014December 4, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Media

Officials from Bulgaria’s Ministry of Culture said on December 4 that they would not attend a meeting of the parliamentary

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Turkish ambassador: Scrapping TV news in Turkish would put Bulgaria on wrong side of history

November 30, 2014December 2, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Media, Turkey

Should Bulgaria discontinue daily news bulletins in Turkish on the public broadcaster, the country would be on the wrong side

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Bulgarian man tests negative for Ebola, Bulgarian media tests positive for hysteria

November 21, 2014May 10, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Media

The shrill panic-inducing performance of some US cable television media in covering, or rather creating, the Ebola scare appears to

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Back in power, Bulgaria’s GERB party revives idea of print media law

November 13, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Media

Bulgaria’s print media should be self-regulating in accordance with a new media law, a senior MP for the country’s largest

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Survey of Bulgarian journalists says media under political pressure – report

November 5, 2014November 7, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Media

More than half of the journalists in an anonymous survey carried out by Konrad Adenauer and Reporter foundations, the findings

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Bulgaria again lowest-ranked EU country in RSF’s World Press Freedom Index

October 21, 2014October 22, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Media

Bulgaria has for the second consecutive year been placed 100th in Reporters Without Borders’ World Press Freedom index, again also

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Bulgarian President calls for reforms to strengthen the media environment

October 20, 2014October 20, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Media, Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgarians deserve to be reliably informed and know who is behind the media, who owns and finances them, to be

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Barekov’s BWC spent more than a million leva on election campaign advertising – NGO

October 12, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian election 2014, Media

Former talk show host Nikolai Barekov’s populist Bulgaria Without Censorship (BWC) coalition was again the biggest spender in the October

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