Your Phone Company is Looking Out for the Pennies
If your telephone bill was charged a couple of cents more, you wouldn’t even notice. It doesn’t really mean much to the customer, but on the company’s side it means millions. This was the case with the...
View ArticleChild Prostitution Continues in Macedonia
Again, Macedonian public has been astounded by the news that two 14-year-old girls had become victims of a chain of juvenile prostitution. Six years ago in a similar case, twelve men were sentenced to...
View ArticleKidney Patients Get Hepatitis in Hospital
Kidney patients in Macedonia become infected with Hepatitis C, when they go to clinics and hospitals for dialysis. Patients as well as nephrologists (kidney specialists) confirm this. The reason is...
View ArticleDressed Up in Stolen Feathers
Dolce&Gabbana, Cavalli, Gucci… you find the brands in fancy malls, but also in Macedonian garages. Inspectors from Macedonian customs entered there, disguised as buyers, and went out with the...
View ArticleWater Money Disappeared Down the Drain
When people in Tetovo, Macedonia, turn on the water, nothing may come out. The water supply is inconsistent – and not because the problem has been ignored. The “messed” story of the water supply system...
View ArticlePulling out of the Balkans Media Market
The German media company WAZ is one of the strongest in Europe. But its entry in the Balkans was not so easy. The work of WAZ in Serbia and Croatia is marked with media companies in debts,...
View ArticleDrug-Addicted Children Die in the Streets
Erhan, Sali and Femi are no longer alive. They all died of a heroin overdose during the last few months. They were 10, 11 and 13 years old. In Skopje, Macedonia, no institution gives help to children...
View ArticleCall For Tomislav Kezarovski’s Immediate and Unconditional Release
(Berlin/Belgrade/Skopje/Kopenhagen) July 2nd, 2013 – The international journalist organisations n-ost, BIRN and Scoop condemn the detention of the Macedonian investigative journalist Tomislav...
View ArticleCampaign to Help Macedonian Investigator
The Macedonian investigative reporter Tomislav Kezarovski was arrested in May 2013 and has now been sentenced to 4,5 years in prison after an article where he uncovered misuse of police autorithy....
View ArticleNew Grants for Cross Border Investigations
Funded by the Robert Bosch Stiftung, the Berlin School of Journalism has launched a new program for cross border journalism: ‘Reporters in the Field’. It’s open to investigative reporters from the...
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