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Berat Buzhala

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Berat Buzhala (born on November 22 1975, in Klinë, Kosovo) is a former Kosovo Member of Parliament for the former governing Democratic Party of Kosovo. He joined the political party after working as a journalist. He left politics and returned to journalism after serving a single mandate in the Parliament. Buzhala belongs to a young generation of Kosovar journalists, established after the Kosovo War. He initially worked as an economics journalist in daily Zeri and Koha Ditore, and was later one of the co-founders of daily Gazeta Express.[1] In 2018, Buzhala helped establish a new TV channel in Kosovo named T7 which engages in independent journalism and in-depth political and economic coverage.

Berat Buzhala was born in Çabiq, municipality of Klinë. He works and lives in Pristina.

Controversy

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The newspaper cofounded by Berat Buzhala, Gazeta Express, as well as the newspaper Zeri he worked for, has been labeled as a key disinformation channel in Kosovo by a European Parliament study.[2]

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References

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  1. ^ "Berat Buzhala - OpEd - Gazeta Express". Archived from the original on 2011-05-02. Retrieved 2011-04-08.
  2. ^ https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2020/653621/EXPO_STU(2020)653621_EN.pdf p26 - Mapping Fake News and Disinformation in the Western Balkans and Identifying Ways to Effectively Counter Them. Policy Department, Directorate-General for External Policies, European Parliament