Monitoring of the media reporting on corruption in Macedonia 2011
Monitoring of the Media Reporting on Corruption in Macedonia 2011
KEY FINDINGS
- The corruption as a topic is relatively frequent in the media.
- The corruption is not present on the front pages or the first minutes of the newscast.
- The corruption stories are dominantly not announced at the front pages or in the breaking news.
- One third of the stories are small, one third medium-sized and one third large.
- Few of the stories are illustrated with original photo or authentic recording.
- The news is dominating over the investigative stories.
- The author is not identified in almost half of the stories.
- The independent investigation of the journalist is seen in very few of the stories.
- More than half of the texts do not identify the sources or provide only one source.
- Police, political parties and officials are main sources of information on corruption.
- More than half of the stories provide only one angle of the story.
- The sources are dominantly identified.
- The actor of corruption is not consulted in dominant part of the stories.
- The journalist does not possess, nor has seen evidence (documents) to support the reporting on corruption in dominant part of the stories.
- The abuse of official position is the most common act of corruption reported in the Macedonian media.
- Half of the texts refer to corruption in governmental institutions.
In majority of texts, the actor of corruption belongs to the current government.