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