How an Online Satire Magazine in Bosnia and Herzegovina Ends Up Reporting the News and Fact-Checking Its Peers

Posted Wednesday, May 30, 2018 10:45 am

Haris Dedovic | Nieman Lab

I’m Haris Dedovic, the editor of an online-only satire magazine in Bosnia and Herzegovina. I’m frustrated by being here at ISOJ: After seeing all these numbers presented about the industry before us, we feel really depressed! We actually have an audience of a significant percent of our country’s population, and it’s about half of the audience on a BuzzFeed video.

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How an Online Satire Magazine in Bosnia and Herzegovina Ends Up Reporting the News and Fact-Checking Its Peers

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