Attitudes Towards Politicians and Institutions in the Bulgarian Press in 2011: A Look at Seven National Dailies

The annual Media Index (see Appendix) commissioned by Foundation Media Democracy (FMD) and compiled by Bulgarian research and consulting agency Market Links is unique in that it is the only one in Bulgaria that traces the dynamics of media attitudes towards leading politicians, political parties and... виж цялата публикация »

The Year of Tabloids

Balgaria Dnes and Vseki Den Seven Months On: A Brief Retrospective

At the height of the summer season of 2011, two new newspapers appeared on the Bulgarian media market. Even before they rolled off the press, Balgaria Dnes (Bulgaria Today) and Vseki Den (Every Day) had already declared war on each other: a war of territories and of interests. Seven months later, it... виж цялата публикация »

2011 Through the Lens of Press Photography

This review of the pictures of political events in the Bulgarian press in 2011 focuses on the scandals in politics, the election campaign, the riots in the village of Katunitsa (see below), and the wave of public, trade union and sectoral protests in Bulgaria. Those key events, and especially the scandals,... виж цялата публикация »

The Lifestyle Press: Back to Tradition

If lifestyle media are indicative of the current social values, then Bulgarian society is becoming more and more patriarchal. The period under review (2011) saw a continuation of the earlier tendency for the Bulgarian lifestyle press to represent reality as divided into two distinct halves: female and... виж цялата публикация »

(Non)Uses of Freedom

Macro-Framework: Dependences The analysis of Bulgarian news sites in 2011 begins where the summary for 2010 ended: from the point of intersection of two competing but interconnected trends and the impossibility to determine which was dominant. The trends in question are the ‘mediatization’ of politics... виж цялата публикация »

Political Content on News Sites: Status Quo Proves Hard to Change

This monitoring study of Bulgarian online news resources included websites of print and broadcast media, news agencies, and news sites with a national and regional focus. It used data gathered via online tools such as the Europe Media Monitor (ЕММ) and Google News. The analysis focused on domestic... виж цялата публикация »

2011: A Little of the European Union, Lots of Bulgaria

In 2011 the tough reforms aimed at overcoming the economic crisis in European Union (EU) member countries caused the Bulgarian media to focus on national efforts in the implementation of community policies. For comparison: in 2009 and 2010 the EU was represented on Bulgarian news portals as the main... виж цялата публикация »

Electrical Storm, or, How Some English-Language Media Saw Bulgaria’s Big Energy Projects in 2011

This article presents the points of view of some English-language electronic media on three big energy projects that are of key importance for Bulgaria’s economic and geopolitical development: the South Stream gas pipeline, the Belene Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), and the potential extraction of shale... виж цялата публикация »

WikiLeaks on Bulgarian Politics

In 2011 the media organization WikiLeaks became very popular in Bulgaria. The project of Australian hacktivist Julian Assange was one of the most cited sources of information. The Bulgarian media drew heavily on the analyses and reports of US diplomats in Sofia released by WikiLeaks. Last year WikiLeaks... виж цялата публикация »

Facebook 2011: Elections in Troubled Times

In 2011 doomsday forecasts about the end of Facebook were spread parallel with news about the growing number of Facebook users. And whereas the world was (and still is) in panicky expectation of 21 December 2012, the day the Mayan Calendar predicts it will end, Facebook was threatened with extinction... виж цялата публикация »

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