Curbing Media, Crippling Debate Soft Censorship in Bulgaria
Curbing Media, Crippling Debate Soft Censorship in Bulgaria www.wan-ifra.org Curbing Media, Crippling Debate Soft Censorship in Bulgaria PUBLISHER: SEEMO EDITOR: WAN-IFRA Oliver Vujovic World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers OTHER RESEARCH PARTNERS: 96 bis, Rue Beaubourg International Press Institute (IPI), Vienna 75003 Paris, France International Academy - International Media www.wan-ifra.org Center (IA-IMC), Vienna International Academy (IA), Belgrade WAN-IFRA CEO: Vincent Peyrègne PROJECT PARTNERS: Center for International Media Assistance PROJECT MANAGER: National Endowment for Democracy Mariona Sanz Cortell 1025 F Street, N.W., 8th Floor Washington, DC 20004, USA EDITOR: www.cima.ned.org Thomas R. Lansner Open Society Justice Initiative PRINCIPAL RESEARCHER: 224 West 57th Street South East Europe Media Organisation New York, New York 10019, USA (SEEMO), Vienna www.opensocietyfoundations.org www.seemo.org SUPPORTED BY: SEEMO RESEARCHERS: Open Society Foundations Siobhan Hagan Sladjana Matejevic DESIGN AND PREPRESS: Orlin Spassov Snezana Vukmirovic, Ivan Cosic, Plain&Hill Serbia Kristina Stevancevic © 2016 WAN-IFRA 2 Note on RepoRT ReseaRch and Methodology This report on the existence and extent of soft censorship in Bulgaria is part of the Soft Censorship Global Review, produced by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) in cooperation with the Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA), with the support from the Open Society Foundations. It was prepared by the South East Europe Media Organisation, based on the methodology developed by WAN-IFRA. 3 Curbing Media, Crippling Debate Table of Contents Executive Summary ...................................................................... 5 Key Findings ................................................................................. 7 Key Recommendations ................................................................. 8 Media, Business, and Power in Bulgaria .......................................
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