The Bulgarian journalist is director of the Balkan Free Media Initiative, created in April 2021 to monitor and campaign for the protection of media freedoms in southeastern Europe. She speaks to Jan Westad about the growing political distortion of the media and the influence of authoritarianism in the Balkans.
You’ve spent the last two decades working as a journalist in Europe, beginning with reporting on the Yugoslav wars and later in Brussels focusing on the European Union. What was it that led you to create the Balkan Free Media Initiative (BFMI)?
