This Report comprises the findings of the second research conducted within the regional project Western Balkan’s Regional Platform for advocating media freedom and journalists’ safety1, implemented by national organisations of journalists in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia. This report presents a follow up to the 2016 study that provided an overview of the legislative, socio-economic and political situation in terms of freedom of media and safety of journalists, and identified the key challenges and obstacles journalists’ association and other stakeholders face. The main aim of report is to identify new developments and compare the levels of media freedoms and journalist safety in 2017 with those identified in 2016.