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Bulgarian President Plevneliev pushes debate on media monopolies

January 21, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Media, Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev is continuing to push the issue of media monopolies, putting them on the agenda of a

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Europe 

Attacks against Montenegro media raise international concerns

January 17, 2014 VOANews Media, Montenegro

Attacks against independent newspapers and journalists have been increasing over the past few years in Montenegro, but two recent incidents

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piles of newspapers
Bulgaria 

Bulgarian media slammed over xenophobia, hate speech in covering refugee issue

November 7, 2013November 7, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Media, Syrian refugees

Sections of Bulgaria’s electronic and print media have come in for sharp criticism for conveying hate speech during coverage of

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Perspectives 

Bulgaria’s Fourth Estate: Fiction and reality

October 3, 2013May 10, 2024 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Media

The shrill hysteria among some Bulgarian journalists in condemning newly-launched television series the Fourth Estate (“Четвърта власт”) went, however inadvertently,

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Report: Internet freedom declines worldwide

October 3, 2013October 3, 2013 VOANews Media

A new report says Internet freedom has deteriorated worldwide in the past year, while activists are finding new ways to

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian journalist’s car burnt out

September 17, 2013September 17, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Media

The private car of Bulgarian journalist Genka Shikerova, co-presenter of a morning talk show on local television station bTV, was

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Bulgaria 

New report underlines worsening weaknesses of Bulgarian media

August 9, 2013August 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Media

The Bulgarian media continued their slow slide away from the levels of sustainability reached in the years before the country’s

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Business 

Bulgaria’s Nova Broadcasting Group expands online portfolio with DarikNet acquisition

August 6, 2013August 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Media

Nova Broadcasting Group said on August 6 that it acquired 70 per cent in DarikNet, in a deal expected to

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Bulgaria 

Ankova re-appointed as head of Bulgarian National Television

July 26, 2013July 26, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Media

Incumbent director-general of public broadcaster Bulgarian National Television, Vyara Ankova, has been appointed to a second three-year term, the Council

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