To be active in contemporary society means that you are under media influence, so one has to learn how to read through media messages, understand contemporary media vocabulary, see the difference between an information and a sensation. Media workers, teaching professors and other professionals in Montenegro are discussing what are the professional and ethical standards challenges, wondering if an information is an act of creation. In one word: media literacy.
The best tool for keeping media free is a strong and coherent self-regulation. This is the message sent to the country from EU experts. No code of ethics can be implemented if there are no sovereign and empowered self-regulating bodies.
Ahead of the next hearing on September 25, Leman Humor Magazine and the Journalists Outside Initiative have called on support for the Cumhuriyet trial in which 20 employees of Cumhuriyet daily are standing trial.
More than 38 million euros of budget money was spent by the government of Nikola Gruevski for media campaigns and government advertising in the period from 2008 to 2015. It was revealed by the government spokesman Mile Bosnjakovski.
Television is still the main news bulletin for political developments, but the number of citizens who get informed about politics via internet is growing, according to the latest poll of the International Republican Institute (IRI) conducted from 4th to 21st August 2017.
After his latest article wasn’t published, Ahmet Taşgetiren has announced that he resigned from “Star” daily newspaper. Among the columnists of pro-government “Star”, in this period Taşgetiren was penning pieces criticizing the government.
The 25th “Musa Anter and Free Press Awards” ceremony, which was banned by Beyoğlu sub-Governorship citing the State of Emergency as the reason, has been held at the Human Rights Association. The decision of ban was protested.
Hate speech and threats are a daily occurrence in Serbia, which moved from the political scene to the media scene, particularly against the media outlets which practice investigative journalism and point toward irregularities in enforcement of regulation and the people behind it, who go unpunished.
“Novine Vranjske”, a weekly from the town of Vranje in south Serbia, known for its professional and critical journalism, closed its doors due to financial and political pressure. In the broadcast we describe how the system of project based state funding of media in Serbia - introduced with media reforms in 2014 - is being abused, particularly on the local level, to support pro-government media and stifle critical outlets. We talked to Svetozar Raković from Nezavisno udruženje novinara Srbije and Dinko Gruhonjić from Nezavisno društvo novinara Vojvodine.
