Aleksandra Temenugova is a program manager at ICS, specialized in media and news literacy. She administers the ICS's media literacy website www.medium.edu.mk and is an Editor in Chief of the high school newspaper Medium, gathering high school students and teachers across the country to apply their journalism skills. Aleksandra coordinated the EU prize-winning project MAMIL,…
Bojan Georgievski is a Project Manager, Research Associate, and Erasmus+ Coordinator at the Institute of Communication Studies (ICS), with more than ten years of experience leading and coordinating international projects in the fields of media, good governance, and education. Until 2013, he served as Secretary General of the School of Journalism and Public Relations, after…
Zaneta Trajkoska is a Scientific Advisor with a Ph.D. in Political Science and nearly 30 years of experience in communications, media education, and policy development in Republic of Macedonia. She currently serves as Director of the Institute of Communication Studies (ICS), with extensive expertise in media literacy, journalism, strategic communication, and public interest campaigns. She…
The project focuses on countering divisive narratives in the Western Balkans and supporting more inclusive, responsible and diverse media reporting.
The policy paper focuses on the issue of hate speech that exists in the media community in Macedonia. The document provides an overview of the European and Macedonian legislation in this area, and also provides an overview of cases from the practice, as well as recommendations for effective and systematic handling of hate speech.
The project focuses on improving news literacy and digital literacy, so that citizens, journalists and civil society organisations can more effectively recognise and deal with fake news, disinformation and unethical media reporting.
The policy paper addresses the issue of regulating online media and the challenges and problems arising from this process.
The policy paper aims to determine whether some of the public interest campaigns that were implemented in the media in Macedonia over the past several years were in the public interest or served the interests of political elites or other institutions?
The purpose of the policy paper was to determine whether the information on the public individuals published in the media satisfies the so-called “public interest test”, that is, whether the media properly balance the rights of those individuals to privacy with the “right to know” of the public.