Serbia

Author: Tatjana Djukic   Founder of recently shut down weekly newspapers Vranjske and former NUNS president Vukasin Obradovic began a hunger strike in order to draw attention to, according to his statement, the pointless fight for media freedom in Serbia. At the moment he is at the offices of Vranjske, where he barricaded himself, refusing […]

Author: Marta Savic, MRCN   Are Serbian media available to young journalists? Do media owners and editors in the West use their potential more than Serbian media? How to fight censorship? We discussed these dilemmas with the journalist and coordinator of the Deutsche Welle Academy in Serbia, Klaus Dahmann. According to him, media workers in […]

Author: Tatjana Djukic, MRCN   (*In the last three months, the daily Politics has published three articles of the phantom authors. In the section Views, which publishes personal opinions and analyses, fictional authors have appeared with some disputable articles. The last one was the phantom commentary of a certain forensic psychiatrist, a court expert for […]

Author: Ivan Protic Paradoxes are common for the Serbian media scene, which has been devastated by all authorities, but mostly by the half-century ruling of Aleksander Vučić. However, the announcement made by the owner of the tabloid Informer, Dragan J. Vučićević, that he will form a journalist association, as the existing ones are “para politic”, is the culmination […]

A widespread opinion among the local powerful people, especially politicians, implies that journalists are less worthy citizens, in relation to whom everything is permitted. Especially female journalists suffer bad treatment, as they are often the target of sexist attacks and suggestions. These days, even Saša Janković, the presidential candidate and politician of civic orientation, joined  the […]

Author: Milena Milosevic   This year, the Media Freedom Index places Serbia as 66th, from 180 ranked countries, representing a decrease of 7 spots, compared to 2016. Reporters Without Borders, which annually publishes this index, says media freedom  has never been more vulnerable. “Media outlets in Serbia work under severe financial burden and pressure from editors, and those critically […]

  The bad state of the media is not just problem of journalists, but the whole society – is one of the conclusions of the discussion “Journalist profession: from the universal know-it-all to the proud ignorant”, organized by IP Clio and Movement Novi Optimizam, held on May 23 in Media and Reform Center Nis, to […]

Author: Tatjana Djukic   The phenomenon of increasing precariousness of journalists, primarily insecurity and uncertainty in the field of labor, as well as problems that the media workers face every day in the south of Serbia were the subject of a working meeting in Media and Reform Center Nis. This was one in a series […]

Author: Tatjana Djukic   The Coalition of journalists’ and media associations demands of journalists and the media, especially public service media to report professionally on the post-election protests. It reminds of the obligation of journalists to “accurately, objectively, comprehensively and timely report on events of public interest, respecting the public’s right to know the truth” […]

Author: Tatjana Djukic (MRCN)   Outrageous, unprecedented, spectacular and you-won’t-believe news, are part of everyday headlines in Serbia, which report about the monsters, liars, criminals, and with plenty of grisly details and testimony of anonymous, reliable, sources. Rules that other side needs to be heard, privacy of the persons in question should be respected, and […]