Media Helping Media

The independent news agency, Makfax, one of the first privately owned media operation in the Republic of Macedonia, has just celebrated 15 years continuous news production.

Director and Editor in Chief, Risto Popovski, writes for Media Helping Media about his mission to ‘provide the fastest way to the truth’ and his work to enhance cross-border media understanding in the region.

Željko Ivanovic, the editorial director of the Montenegrin independent daily newspaper Vijesti, is recovering after being attacked in the street. Ivanovic (pictured left in hospital) says he is unhappy with the way the investigation into the attack is being carried out and says the police and the judiciary need to ensure that those responsible face the courts. Failure to do so, he writes, could threaten media freedom in the country.

A newspaper editor in Montenegro, who was beaten and hospitalised after what he claims was a politically-motivated attack, is fighting a €1m libel case filed by a leading politician who the journalist says was behind the assault. Željko Ivanovic, editorial director of the Montenegrin independent daily newspaper Vijesti says violence is being used to intimidate the media in the country. Patrice Schneider reports.