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Mass Media In Belarus
The mass media in Belarus consists of TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, cinema, and Internet-based websites/portals. The media is monopolized by the government, which owns all TV channels, most of the radio and print media. Broadcasting is mostly in Russian, and Russian media are widely present. After 2020, all independent media were pushed out of the country. The Law on Mass Media has been repeatedly amended and tightened, making it virtually impossible for independent journalists and publications to operate. European, Ukrainian and news websites were blocked in Belarus. The Constitution of Belarus guarantees freedom of speech, but this is contradicted in practice by repressive and restrictive laws. Arbitrary detention, arrests, and harassment of journalists are frequent in Belarus. Anti-extremism legislation targets independent journalism, including material considered unfavourable to the president. As of 2024, Belarus ranks 167th in the World Press Freedom Index. BBC describ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Press Freedom Index
The World Press Freedom Index (WPFI) is an annual ranking of Country, countries compiled and published by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) since 2002 based upon the non-governmental organization's own assessment of the countries' Freedom of the press, press freedom records in the previous year. It intends to reflect the degree of freedom that journalists, news organizations, and netizens have in each country, and the efforts made by authorities to respect this freedom. Reporters Without Borders notes that the WPFI only deals with press freedom and does not measure the quality of journalism in the countries it assesses, nor does it look at human rights violations in general.How the index was compiled , Reporters Without Borders, 2013 Methodology The WPFI is partly based on a questionnaire.[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All-National TV
All-National Television (, Obshchenatsional'noe Televidenie, ONT; , Ahuľnanacyjanaľnaje teliebačannie, ANT) is Belarus's second state-owned television station. Established on 15 February 2002 by decree of the President of Belarus, the station replaced relays of Channel One, and currently broadcasts most of the channel's content. History Since the late 1990s, BTRC began interfering with the broadcasts of Russian channels in Belarus: ORT, RTR, and, from 2000, NTV, due to the fact that these channels could not pay for their retransmission fees. This caused the replacement of Russian commercials with local ones, a cut in airtime (because the Belarusian channels started later and ended earlier than a usual Russian channel), and the removal of certain content due to rights issues. The president announced that a second national channel would be created. Instead of being operated by BTRC, it was going to replace the frequencies of the former ORT relays. ONT was established by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belteleradio
The National State TV and Radio Company of the Republic of Belarus (; ), known as Belteleradiocompany (; ) or simply Belteleradio, is the state television and radio broadcasting service in Belarus. From 1993 until 2021, it was a full active member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) under the name Belarusian Television and Radio Company (BTRC). In May 2021, the EBU Executive Board agreed to suspend BTRC as a member of the broadcasting union effective 11 June 2021. The broadcaster later іndіcated that the suspension would expire in 2024, but this was later denied by the EBU a couple months prior to when the suspension hypothetically would have been lifted as they publicly addressed that they had "no reason" to reinstate BTRC's membership "at the current time". This means that BTRC's membership is indefinitely suspended, and as a result cannot rejoin the organisation. Until the suspension is lifted or another Belarusian member joins in its place, there are presently no member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Journalism Centre
The European Journalism Centre (EJC) is an independent, non-profit institute, based in Maastricht, Limburg, The Netherlands. Operations Its aim is to give further training to mid-career journalists and media professionals. The institute also acts a partner and organiser at the European level for media companies, professional organisations, journalism schools and government bodies seeking to establish activities and projects. For an extensive research project on food worldwide, Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant was given the ''European Publishers' Long-term Reporting Grant''. The EJC was financed for this grant by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Its director, since 2021 is Lars Boering. In 2017, European Journalism Centre launched 'The News Impact' programme, an attempt to assemble hands-on professionals who may be able to tutor future journalists, on the grounds of innovation, tools of journalism as well as technology. This program, which usually consists of multiple annual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gennady Mozheyko
Gennady Nikolayevich Mozheyko (, ; born 11 May 1982, in Minsk, USSR) is a Belarusian journalist and political prisoner. On 1 October 2021 he was detained in connection with his professional activities. Belarusian and Russian journalists and human rights activists called for his release. In March 2023 he was sentenced to three years in penal colony. Biography Mozheyko was born on 11 May 1982 in Minsk. In 2004 he graduated from the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics. Since 2009 he has been working in the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda in Belarus. In 2011, he took second place in the photo contest Belarus Press Photo. He wrote on topics related to transport, technology, history, army and military equipment. In August 2020, Mozheyko covered the events of the first days of the mass protests that followed the presidential election. On the night of 11–12 August 2020, on the instructions of the editors, he worked in the Serebryanka microdistrict as part of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrzej Poczobut
Andrzej Poczobut ( ''Andrej (Andžej) Pačobut'', born 16 April 1973 in Vyalikaya Byerastavitsa) is a Polish and Belarusian journalist, opposition figure, activist of the Polish minority in Belarus and political prisoner. A correspondent for the Polish newspaper ''Gazeta Wyborcza'', Poczobut has been arrested more than a dozen times by the government of Belarus. In 2011, he was sentenced to a fine and fifteen days in prison for "participation in the unsanctioned protest rally" following the 2010 presidential election. In 2011 and 2012, he was arrested and detained for allegedly libeling President Alexander Lukashenko in his reports. The charges against Poczobut received international condemnation, with groups including the European Parliament, Reporters Without Borders, and Amnesty International issuing statements in his support. He has been arrested again in 2021 and remains in prison as of 2024. He has been described as a political prisoner. Background He worked as a journa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darya Chultsova
Darya Chultsova ( Belarusian: Дар’я Дзмітрыеўна Чульцова, Russian: Дарья Дмитриевна Чульцова) (born on 20 February 1997, in Shklow, Mogilev Region, Belarus) is a journalist from Belarus. She worked for the television channel Belsat TV. She broadcast the event from the Square of Changes in Minsk where Raman Bandarenka was beaten to death in 2020. She was arrested on site on 15 November 2020. Early life and career She was born in Shklow. Being a little girl, she became interested in journalism. During the university years, she worked part-time for the website "Mogilev.Online". She graduated the Department of Journalism of Mogilev State A. Kuleshov University in 2020. In 2020, she moved to the TV channel Belsat TV and worked there as a journalist. Criminal procedure Together with journalist Katsyaryna Andreeva, she became a suspect in a criminal case on organizing actions that attack public order. On 15 November 2020, in Minsk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katsyaryna Andreeva
Katsyaryna Andreeva (; ; real name: Katsyaryna Andreevna Bakhvalava; ; born November 2, 1993) is a Belarusian journalist. She worked for the television network Belsat TV. She broadcast the event from the Square of Changes in Minsk where Raman Bandarenka was beaten to death in 2020. She was arrested on site on November 15, 2020. She was sentenced to two years in prison. In 2022, she was sentenced to am additional eight years in prison on charges of "state treason", which Amnesty International called bogus. Early life and career She was born in Minsk in a family of journalists. She studied for about two and a half years in Minsk State Linguistic University, then she moved to Spain. She taught English there for two years. Then she came back home, got to work for the newspaper Nasha Niva as a journalist. In 2017, she moved to Belsat TV. Katsyaryna Andreeva with Ihar Ilyash wrote the book ''Belarusian Donbas'' in 2020. The book is about how the Belarusian people and organizations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jahor Marcinovič
Jahor Aljaksandravič Marcinovič (; born 3 September 1988) is a Belarusian journalist who is currently serving as chief editor of Nasha Niva since 2017. In July 2021 he was arrested for alleged debts of the newspaper to the electric company, estimated damage amounted to 10,000 Belarusian rubles ($3000). On March 15, 2022, he was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison. Human rights activists in Belarus have recognized him as a political prisoner. Biography Family and career Jahor is a son of Belarusian writer and poet . His brother is a historian and journalist. Jahor graduated from the Belarusian State University, BSU Journalism faculty in 2011. He started working at Nasha Niva in 2009 and became an author of many important interviews, reports and investigations. In 2017 he replaced Andrej Skurko on the post of chief editor. In 2015, 2016 and 2017 he was awarded with Belarusian Association of Journalists, BAJ prize 'Volnaye Slova'. Marcinovič has experienced pressure from t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marina Zolotova
Marina Zolotova () is a Belarusian journalist, chief editor of Tut.by media outlet since 2004. In 2021 she was arrested under charges of large-scale tax evasion; later political charges were added to her case. She is considered a political prisoner by the European Union, the United States of America, and numerous human rights defenders. On March 17, 2023, she was sentenced to 12 years in prison. Biography Early years and family Zolotova was born in Minsk in 1977. She graduated from BSU Philology department. Zolotova speaks Bulgarian. She worked at the Institute of Science Research, then at the BelaPAN agency. Tut.by In Summer 2004, Zolotova started working at Tut.by. Very soon she became chief editor of the outlet. Under Zolotova Tut.by launched its own news block and gradually opened other departments, dedicated to sports, culture, fashions, etc. While in 2004 the site had only 6000 unique visitors per day, by 2020 it grew into the biggest Belarusian Internet media ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nasha Niva
''Nasha Niva'' (, lit. "Our field") is one of the oldest Belarusian weekly newspapers, founded in 1906 and re-established in 1991. ''Nasha Niva'' became a cultural symbol, due to the newspaper's importance as a publisher of Belarusian literature and as a pioneer of Belarusian language journalism, the years before the October Revolution are often referred to as the 'Nasha Niva Period'. In the period between 1906 and 1915 the newspaper was published on a weekly basis. From 1991 to 1995 it appeared once a month, reverting to weekly publication in 1996 and then fortnightly in 1997–1999. In 1999 the paper became a weekly again. ''Nasha Niva'' Online (nn.by) was set up in 1997. By 2017 it had become the most frequently visited website in the Belarusian language. According to Media IQ estimation, ''Nasha Niva'' remains free of state propaganda and keeps one of the highest ratings in journalism ethics among Belarusian media. Being in open opposition to Alexander Lukashenko's regime, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
