Partners & Supporters

We are proud to be supported by:

  • Article 19

  • Basel Institute on Governance

  • CRTA

  • Center for the Study of Democracy

  • Free Media Bulgaria

  • United Group

  • FTTH Council Europe

  • International Press Institute

  • KIPRED

  • NUNS / IJAS

  • OutLoud Foundation

  • Highgate

All research and activities conducted by BFMI are entirely independent. Read our code of conduct to find out more.

BFMI is grateful to all of our Partners and Supporters. If you or your organisation would like to support media freedom in the Balkans through BFMI with financinal support or by providing expertise, we would love to hear from you.

“Balkan Free Media are global leaders in understanding and defunding disinformation. We are proud to work alongside their team, and grateful for their role in the Balkans.”

Claire Atkin
Co-Founder & CEO, Check My Ads

“I am truly proud that we have organizations like the Balkan Media Freedom Initiative, which address the complexities of the region and with whom we have already worked successfully several times in defending the shared causes of media freedom and democracy.”  

Radan Kanev
Member of the European Parliament

“NUNS and BFMI have had good cooperation since the beginning of BFMI, which has helped us on several occasions to raise the visibility of problems in Serbia in the international community and to ensure that true information, based on data and analysis about problems in the media scene, reaches the decision makers.”

NUNS / IJAS

“Faced with declining freedoms, we have the duty to reaffirm them more than before. We must make our voice heard stronger than we have done in recent months. We must do this because being free means having knowledge, and our knowledge is real only when information is free.”

David Sassoli
Former President of the European Parliament
Endorsing BFMI’s first report