Bulgaria Marks Press Freedom Day amidst Slumping Rankings
Bulgaria and Bulgarian journalists mark soberly Thursday the UN World Press Freedom Day.
Bulgaria and Bulgarian journalists mark soberly Thursday the UN World Press Freedom Day.
Respecting the business interests of media owners and silencing any information that may be interpreted as harmful is widely accepted by most Bulgarian reporters as a way of doing journalism, South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) said in its preview of a forthcoming report on Bulgarian media.
The quality of Bulgaria's journalism continues to diminish, according to the Media Sustainability Index (MSI) the system introduced by IREX to analyse the strength and viability of a country's media sector.
Bulgaria's Council for Electronic Media (SEM) reviewed on Tuesday the case of Nikolay Barekov, a TV host who tore up an edition of Trud daily during Friday's morning broadcast of TV7, calling the newspaper "a rug" and saying that it would cease to exist.
Bulgarians are organizing once again Saturday a nation-wide protest against the controversial international Anti-counterfeiting Trade Agreement, ACTA.
The European Court of Justice, EU's highest court, has been asked to determine the validity of the controversial ACTA agreement, EU Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht has announced.
Bulgaria became the fourth European Union member state to halt the ratification of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) on February 15, only days after thousands of Bulgarians braved freezing weather to show their opposition to the treaty.
Bulgaria's government is halting the ratification of the controversial international Anti-counterfeiting Trade Agreement, ACTA.
Bulgaria has been moved ten notches down in the world chart for freedom of the media drawn up by Reporters Without Borders – from 70th down to 80th position in 2011-2012, or the rearmost place among EU countries.
Bulgaria's Minister of Economy and Energy, Traicho Traikov, announced that he is ready to resign over the ACTA controversy.