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Troll of the Month: Media outlet Sinjali
The Balkan Troll of the Month is an individual, a group of individuals or a media outlet that spreads hate based on gender, ethnicity, religion, or other diversity categories. The Balkan Troll is selected based on hate speech incidents identified across the Western Balkan region.
The mind-bending that never ends
After Mladić's death, the public space was flooded with denial of crimes, belittling of victims and glorification of criminals.
PSE, SI GAZETARE, PROTESTOVA KUNDËR NJË MEDIUMI?
Dje, më 17 gusht, iu bashkova një grupi protestuesish që ishin mbledhur para zyrave të mediumit online “Sinjali” në Prishtinë. Gazetarët i kanë përjetuar protestat kryesisht nga ana tjetër, me bllok në dorë, mjaftueshëm afër për të dëgjuar dhe mjaftueshëm larg për të mos u llogaritur, ndërsa dje isha brenda grupit, dhe për herë të …
TROLL OF THE MONTH – SELECTION CRITERIA
The goal of the Reporting Diversity Network 2.0 monitoring is to identify and document the most significant cases (‘incidents’) of hate speech and divisive discourses in the Western Balkans media. Incidents are defined by the speaker regardless of where they occurred, but monitoring refers to their media coverage. They can originate in the Parliament, party …
SEENPM: Alpac Capital takeover of Adria News Network must be closely scrutinised
We, the SEENPM member organisations in Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia, express deep concern over last week’s Alpac Capital’s takeover of Adria News Network (ANN). Its portfolio includes N1 in four countries; Nova S, Nova.rs, Danas and Radar in Serbia; and the Vijesti group in Montenegro. These are among the region’s few sizeable, independent, professional and non-nationalist news organisations. (In …
Monthly Monitoring Highlights – July
During the month of July, the RDN monitoring team identified a range of hateful narratives and discourse including sexism and misogyny, disinformation and hate speech and a range of unprofessional reporting from hate speech towards minors to historical revisionism. Relativisation and revisionism in Bosnia and Herzegovina The 11th of July marked the 31st anniversary of the genocide …
Troll of the Month: Snežana Paunović, The Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government in Serbia
The Balkan Troll of the Month is an individual, a group of individuals or a media outlet that spreads hate based on gender, ethnicity, religion, or other diversity categories. The Balkan Troll is selected based on hate speech incidents identified across the Western Balkan region. The Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government, Snežana Paunović from the Socialist …
The erosion of media freedom in Kosovo
New report outlines backsliding in press freedom and the urgent remedies needed to change course. Four years ago, a coalition of the world’s leading press freedom organizations conducted a fact-finding mission in Kosovo to assess the climate for media freedom. They left with a cautiously optimistic message. The 2022 mission found a country that, while far …
Women continue to give up their property: the spiral of emotional and social pressure
Although women and men in Montenegro have equal inheritance rights under the law, in practice women continue to renounce their share of inherited property in favor of their brothers, sons, or other family members, often under the guise of acting voluntarily or “for the good of the family.” The state does not keep records of …
Remembering what is shared
In Kosovo, preserving the history of exchange among communities is an act of anti-ethnonationalist resistance and hope. As a child, searching for depictions of my homeland in the diaspora were always coloured by the persistent portrayal that Albanians and Serbs were forever at odds. Every headline seemed to reinforce the same narrative: our communities were …