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TIRANA, Oct. 8 – Working in the media sector in Albania means little legal and social protection due to journalists and other media staff often working without contracts or under fictitious contracts, stripping them of current or future benefits such as access to public services and old-age retirement benefits. A recent survey conducted by the Albanian Media Institute has shown a third of journalists and media staff in Albania don’t have a work contract and that working without a contract is a common phenomenon in the Albanian media landscape, in similar levels to other private sectors where informality is one…