An appeal to support media outlets that disseminate reliable news and information and to make trustworthy journalism a key issue in the campaign for November\u2019s parliamentary elections, was sent by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) upon the visit of its representative Pavol Szalai, the head of RSF\u2019s European Union and Balkans desk. He was one of the speakers in \u201cNew Horizons in Journalism\u201d Conference organized by the World Press Institute in Sofia, Bulgaria on 24-25 September. The event, sponsored by America for Bulgaria Foundation and in partnership with the Association of European Journalists \u2013 Bulgaria.<\/p>\n
While in Sofia, RSF advocated to officials and leading national politicians for concrete measures to encourage reliable reporting and to support independent Bulgarian media outlets. \u201cWe have presented strong recommendations and now we ask you to take the actions that are permitted by your position,\u201d Szalai said during a meeting with culture<\/a> minister Velislav Minekov.<\/p>\n \u201cThe right to news and information is experiencing a major crisis in Bulgaria,\u201d Szalai said in his address to the New Horizons in Journalism conference. \u201cWe need a crisis exit plan that supports those journalists who produce and disseminate trustworthy information. In a country ravaged by the coronavirus and by corruption in the allocation of European funding, access to reliable coverage of public policy is more than ever in the general interest of both Bulgarians and all Europeans.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An appeal to support media outlets that disseminate reliable news and information and to make trustworthy journalism a key issue in the campaign for November\u2019s parliamentary elections, was sent by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) upon the visit of its representative Pavol Szalai, the head of RSF\u2019s European Union and Balkans desk. He was one of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29753,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-featured","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}