This report presents the findings from the research conducted within the regional project ”Western Balkan’s Regional Platform for advocating on media freedom and journalists’safety”1, which is implemented by the national journalists’ associations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia. The main objective of the research study was to provide base-line assessment and evidence for the level of media freedom and journalists’ safety, which will be further used in the regional mechanism for monitoring and advocating on media freedoms, and journalists’ safety at local, national, and regional level.