Tag: Association of European Journalists

Bringing charges against experts for opinions they have expressed is a form of obscurantism that goes directly against Bulgaria’s European Union (EU) membership because...

The Association of European Journalists-Bulgaria (AEЙ-Bulgaria) organizes training on "Fact checking & News verification" together with the Google News Lab. The training will be held on 5th of March (Tuesday) in the hall of the French Institute in Bulgaria (3, “Petko R. Slaveikov” Square), Sofia. Special guest and trainer will be Marek Miller, a Google News Lab representative for Central and Eastern Europe.

Join a discussion about cross-border journalism and listen to three journalists sharing their work on international stories, organized by the Polish media project Outriders in partnership with the Asociation of European Journalists-Bulgaria.

The AEJ and other signatories of this appeal urge the Slovak authorities to immediately start examining state responsibility in the failure to prevent the assassination of Jan Kuciak

On the 23rd of January 2019, the Bulgarian Parliament adopted amendments to the Law for Protection of Personal Data in its effort to comply with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). However, some particular amendments raise serious concerns among journalists, artists, writers, bloggers and scientists. Which the Association of European Journalists-Bulgaria addressed back in May, when the Bulgarian Data Protection Committee and the Ministry of Interior first presented the new bill.

The Association of European Journalists-Bulgaria in partnership with the Bulgarian-American Commission for Educational Exchange (Bulgarian Fulbright Commission) are organizing a workshop on data journalism. Miranda S. Spivack, an American veteran and award-winning journalist and Fulbright scholar, will be conducting the training for reporters and editors. The event, which will last a total of two hours, will take place on February 15th.

Irina Nedeva, the President of AEJ-Bulgaria, presented a special report on fake news during the International Conference of the Association of European Journalists, 29th November – 2nd of December 2018, held n the region of Aitoloakarnania, Greece. The conference brought together journalists from nearly all European media who exchanged views on the crucial issue of democracy in Europe. The Greek Mayor of Brussels honoured the conference showing the importance of co-operation in Europe.

The European Commission (EC) has placed a special focus on the the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism (CVM) report concerning the state of the media environment in Bulgaria.

The AEJ-Bulgaria Conference gathered leading media innovators from the region.

The Association of European Journalists - Bulgaria is shocked by the news of the murder of Victoria Marinova, administrative director and TV host in...