Despite the fact that there is a large number of media, the media system in the country is not pluralistic and inclusive. The underdeveloped non-profit and community media, the economic unsustainability of local commercial media, poor reporting on local topics and issues affecting citizens in local communities and the absence of original and quality content contribute to poor access of the smallest linguistic and other local communities to the media and media content. This situation has been going on for years, and in order to overcome it, it is necessary to establish a special Fund to encourage pluralism and diversity of media content and professional and quality journalism.
On October 5, the RESIS Institute, together with activists from civil organizations from the East and South-Eastern regions and professional journalists, held the first meeting of the editorial board of the online community media - LokalAktiv.
A meeting with civic organizations from the Vardar region in the Youth Center in Kavadarci, the initiative of the RESIS Institute for the formation of an online community medium - LokalAktiv for the Vardar region, was presented.
RESIS conducted the new assessment of the risks for media pluralism in North Macedonia, as part of the Media Pluralism Monitor 2023 (MPM2022), a project coordinated by the Center for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom from Florence.
On April 25, the RESIS Institute held an online debate on the growing importance of community media in fostering civic engagement in local governance.
On February 4th, activists from a group of civil society organizations from the Eastern and Southeastern regions, at a workshop in Shtip, began their training for the production of media content for the Local Community Media.
The study "Journalists' Views and Perceptions of Judicial Transparency: A Comparative Study in Three Western Balkan Countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia and Serbia" presents the findings from the regional research project conducted among journalists from three Western Balkans countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia and Serbia. The author of this study is Dr Snežana Trpevska, from the Research Institute on Social Development – RESIS.
The RESIS Institute started the Mapping of communication habits, knowledge, needs and interests of vulnerable groups of citizens in the Eastern and Southeastern regions of RNM. The mapping includes citizens who live with a certain degree of physical disability, intellectual disability or visual and hearing impairment, as vulnerable categories of citizens whose communication rights are most threatened. This is the first Mapping of the communication habits of vulnerable citizens in RNM and will serve as a basis for a thorough research that will assess the needs and communication habits of groups in the local community.
On September 30, the RESIS Institute and the Local Community Development Foundation – Stip held a meeting with civil society organizations that represent the rights of vulnerable categories of citizens from the Southeast region, on the occasion of the establishment of the new community media platform #LocalActive, part of the LocalActiveMedia project.
On September 15th, RESIS Institute and the Local Community Development Foundation – Stip held a meeting with civil society organizations from the Eastern region, part of the Network of Audience Councils, on the occasion of the establishment of the new community media platform #LocalActive, part of the LocalActiveMedia project.
