Journalist’ academy gathered 27 students on Jahorina

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JAHORINA, 19.11.2017. – How to report responsibly about gender-based violence, which are the most frequent forms of violence against women and girls in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and how this social problem is addressed through the legal framework and international standards are some of the topics that will be discussed during a three-day workshop for students “Reporting on the topic of gender-based violence”, which started today in Jahorina.

Participants of the Academy, 27 students from the Department of Journalism and Communication from Bosnia and Herzegovina Public and Private Faculties, for the next three days will listen to lectures by media professionals, activists and representatives of public institutions and actively participate in group and individual exercises.

The first day of the Academy, the lecture was held by Ljiljana Zurovac, executive director of the Press and Online Media Council in BiH, who spoke about journalistic ethics in the context of reporting on gender-based violence and on the role of the media when it comes to highlighting the problem of violence against women and girls.

“Previous experience shows how this topic is reported only when it comes to the final outcome, that is, to the final violence, murder or punishment for committing violence,” Zurovac said, adding that journalists and the media are obliged to work more on the general awareness of the problem of violence against women and girls in a way to keep on reporting and breaking taboos and prejudices.

The Journalists’ Academy in Jahorina gathered participants from Sarajevo, Banja Luka, Tuzla, Ljubuski, Visegrad, Istocno Sarajevo, Mostar, Pale and Bugojno, and is being held within the project “Turn Off Violence – Media Against Violence Against Women”, implemented by the Association / Association of BH Journalists with the support of UN Women’s Office in BiH and the Swedish International Development and Cooperation Agency (Sida).

U nedjelju počinje Novinarska akademija 2017 na Jahorini

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SARAJEVO, 17.11.2017. – Novinarska akademija 2017- vaninstitucionalna škola edukacije studenata/ica novinarstva i komunikologije počinje u nedelju u hotelu Lavina na Jahorini, koju Udruženja/udruga BH novinari organizuju već petu godinu.

Edukativni kamp održava se u okviru UN Women projekta “Standardi i angažman za sprječavanje nasilja nad ženama i nasilja u porodici u Bosni i Hercegovini”, koji finansijski podržava Švedska agencija za međunarodni razvoj i saradnju (Sida) i biće organizovan u periodu od 19. do 21. novembra u hotelu Lavina na Jahorini.

Tema praktične obuke studenata/ica i mladih novinara/ki je “Izvještavanje o temi rodno zasnovanog nasilja”, a predavači će biti istaknuti profesori novinarstva i novinarske etike, medijski profesionalci, međunarodni stručnjaci i aktivisti/ce civilnog društva.

Uhapšen zbog pretnji novinarima, Jankoviću i Jeremiću

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ZRENJANIN, 20.11.2017. – U Zrenjaninu je u okviru akcije Službe zа borbu protiv orgаnizovаnog kriminаlа uhapšen M. M. zbog sumnje da je putem društvene mreže Tviter pretio predsedniku Pokretа slobodnih grаđаnа Sаši Jаnkoviću, predsedniku Nаrodne strаnke Vuku Jeremiću, novinаru Nezаvisnog društvа novinаrа Vojvodine Igoru Besermenjiju i novinаrki Tаtjаni Vojtehovski.

Kako se navodi u saopštenju Ministarstva unutrašnjih poslova, on je uhapšen zbog sumnje da je izvršio krivično delo ugrožаvаnje sigurnosti.

Po nаlogu Posebnog tužilаštvа zа borbu protiv visokotehnološkog kriminаlа M. M. je određeno zаdržаvаnje do 48 sаti.

Akcija grupe Za slobodu medija: Slobodni novinari postoje, uprkos svemu

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BEOGRAD, 19.11.2017. – Članovi Grupe za slobodu medija organizovali su danas ulične akcije u pet gradova Srbije kako bi građane upoznali sa svojim zahtevima podnetim Vladi i Skupštini Srbije radi zaštite medijskih sloboda i bezbednosti novinara.

„Najvažniji deo akcije Grupe za slobodu medija je da podsetimo građane da su im mediji i novinari neophodni, jer ne mogu bez informacija“, izjavio je predsednik Nezavisnog udruženja novinara Srbije Slaviša Lekić, koji je građanima delio letke na Trgu Republike u Beogradu.

U lecima se građani pozivaju da podrže zahteve Grupe za slobodu medija, koja okuplja više stotina medija, organizacija, novinarskih i medijskih udruženja, a osnovni cilj je da se spreči dalje urušavanje slobode medija.

Akcija Grupe je organizovana na tri mesta u Beogradu, na Trgu Republike, u Knez Mihajlovoj i na Terazijama, ali i u Novom Sadu, Nišu, Kragujevcu i Vranju.

Lekić je istakao da građani ne mogu bez novinara šta god da o njima mislili i da je važno da podrže novinare u borbi za slobodu medija.

On smatra da odziv građana pokazuje da je akcija Grupe za slobodu medija uspela.

Novinarka Vremena Jovana Gligorijević je ocenila da je u 13 zahteva Grupe za slobodu medija ukazano na sve probleme na medijskom tržištu, uključujući pitanje medijskih sloboda, samoregulacije i regulacije.

Svih 13 zahteva je jednako bitno, a suština problema je u tome što imamo zakone koji su nepoštuju ili se namerno krše, ukazala je Gligorijević.

Njena koleginica, Tamara Skrozza rekla je da članovi Grupe za slobodu medija deljenjem letaka pokušavaju da objasne građanima šta zaista žele novinari i šta su zatražili od Vlade i Narodne skupštine.

„Do građana su do sada došle samo interpretacije naših zahteva i to iz usta onih koji predstavljaju tu vladu ili su joj bliski“, smatra Skrozza.

Ona je istakla da novinari žele pravo da rade i govore u normalnim okolnostima.

„To je pravo ne samo novinara, nego i građana koji imaju pravo da izraze svoje mišljenje i da pri tome ne osećaju strah ili nekakvu stegu“, dodala je Skrozza.

Ona smatra da su politički pritisci, nepotizam i korupcija uzroci nepoštovanja zakona.

Prema Skrozzi, zakoni sami po sebi nisu tako rđavi, ali ih vladajuće elite besramno gaze i to pred svima, a da novinari ne mogu ništa.

„Naša elementarna prava su uništena i pogažena. Džaba nam svi zakoni ovog sveta ako se oni ne poštuju ili ako su u funkciji nečije političke volje, nečijih interesa ili prijateljskih i kumovskih veza“, ukazala je Skrozza.

Ona je istakla da joj optimizam budi činjenica da su se novinari pokrenuli.

„Vlast se već godinama trudi da nas umori i učini nevidljivima, a mi im sada pokazujemo da nisu uspeli u tome“, smatra Skrozza.

„Bilo kakav efekat ove akcije da bude, ja sam zadovoljna što smo mi, makar, pokazali da smo živi. U odnosu na situaciju od pre dva tri meseca, to je strašno veliki uspeh. Pokazujemo im da postojimo i da uprkos svemu i dalje radimo i verujemo u ono što smo izabrali da radimo“, zaključila je Skrozza.

Police filed charges against policemen who attacked Drago Miljuš, Index.hr journalist

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ZAGREB, 18.11.2017. – Police filed charges against two policemen who attacked Drago Miljuš, Index.hr journalist, at October 10, 2017, answered Davor Božinović, Minister of Interior, in his letter to the Parliament Committee for Information, Informatization and Media.

After that attack against Index. hr journalist the Parliament Committee for Information, Informatization and Media requested the opinion from the Minister of Interior Mr. Božinović. The answer came to the Parliament today.

“It was established that police officers’ actions constituted serious misconduct by which they damaged reputation of the Police. Therefore the Head of Split-Dalmatian Police Office brought a claim against them and asked for disciplinary actions to be taken. Both policemen have been removed from their duties until process is completed. Also, the investigation found out that one of them potentially committed crime of damaging someone else’s property and the other one of injury. Following these findings both policemen were filed charges against“, is said in the Minister’s answer according to Index.hr.

Croatian Journalists’ Association condemned physical attack of Split policemen against journalist Drago Miljuš and asked for immediate investigation and adequate penalization. It also called upon the Ministry of Interior to inform public about results of all reported cases of attacked journalists.

Initiated by the Regional Platform the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) reported the incident to the European Council (EC); it records all cases of attacks against journalist in EU member countries through data-base „Media Freedom Alerts“. Miljuš case is 7th Croatian case in that EC data-base.

The case was also followed by Harlem Désir, OSCE Commissioner for Media Freedom; he condemned the attack at his Twitter asking for immediate reaction from the Croatian institutions.

Source: CJA, safejournalists.net, Media Freedom Alerts, OSCE

Written by: Ema Tarabochia

Discover urgently who burned Miroslav Drobnjak’s car

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PODGORICA, 17/11/2017 – Trade Union of Media of Montenegro requests from the Police Directorate and the Basic State Prosecutor’s Office in Pljevlja to urgently investigate the circumstances under which the vehicle of journalist Miroslav Drobnjak was set on fire and to determine without any delay who did it, and why.

The vehicle of our colleague Drobnjak from Pljevlja, a correspondent of Večernje novosti, was set on fire on October 11^th and that, as the expert’s findings showed, was done intentionally. We demand from the state to do its job thoroughly and from the competent institutions to announce whether the case has been formed ex officio, how the act has been qualified, and what has been done so far. We also request investigation whether the attack on Drobnjak was motivated due to his work as a journalist.

More than a month has passed since the incident and the expert’s findings were completed on October 20^th (nine days after the event), however, Drobnjak was informed about that yesterday. According to information that we have, until yesterday the police did not examined anyone regarding the incident. We do not want to believe that in this case, literally nothing has been done and that’s why we are asking for answers. Even if before expert’s findings someone doubted that the car was burned spontaneously, that doubt is now clarified and there are no excuses for the lack of action.

We remind the police and the prosecution, as well as the public that similar cases of attacks on journalists in Montenegro have not been resolved and hardly they will be. Therefore, we request from the authorities to pay special attention to the case of the attack on Drobnjak, who is not the only journalist who lives in fear of being attacked while perpetrators are free, and not to repeat the mistakes from the past, because unresolved cases of attacks on journalists are “burden” of the whole country.

SMCG will follow up the case of the attack on colleague Drobnjak and performance of the institutions, from which we demand professional relation and prompt and effective investigation.

Odbačene prijave novinara za napad tokom inauguracije Vučića

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BEOGRAD, 17.11.2017. – Prvo osnovno javno tužilaštvo je, nakon analize dokaza, odbacilo krivične prijave novinara napadnutih ispred Doma Narodne Skupštine na dan inauguracije predsednika Republike Srbije Aleksandra Vučića, saopšteno je iz tog tužilaštva.

Kako se navodi na sajtu, tužilaštvo je zaključilo da ne postoje osnovi sumnje da je bilo koje lice izvršilo krivična dela “ugrožavanje sigurnosti” ili “nasilničko ponašanje”, niti bilo koje drugo krivično delo za koje se gonjenje preduzima po službenoj dužnosti, pa je naložilo policiji da pokrene prekršajne postupke.

Iz tužilaštva navode da su 2.i 6. juna 2017. godine u prostorijama Prvog osnovnog javnog tužilaštva ispitana sva lica koja su smatrala da su oštećena.

Sve njihove izjave tužilaštvo je tretiralo kao krivičnu prijavu protiv NN lica, te je sproveden jedinstveni postupak.

Nakon sprovedene istrage Ministarstva unutrašnjih poslova, tužilaštvu su dostavljena dva izveštaja u kojima se, između ostalog, navodi da je utvrđen identitet lica koja su učestvovala u opisanim događajima, da su uzete izjave od svih lica koja su smatrala da su oštećena, kao i od svedoka, te da o opisanim događajima postoji fotodokumentacija, koja je uz izveštaj dostavljena tom tužilaštvu.

“Iz izjava građana svedoka koji su 31.05.2017. godine bili ispred Doma Narodne Skupštine kako bi prisustvovali svečanom polaganju zakletve novog predsednika Republike Aleksandra Vučića, proizilazi da su tom prilikom videli događaje koji su se desili, te su svi izjavili da bi došlo do mnogo većih incidenata i ‘linča’, samim tim i težeg povređivanja učesnika skupa, da ovi novinari, kao i neki građani nisu izvedeni iz mase, a da su se pritom lica koja su učestovala u tome, ponašala pristojno, da nikome nisu pretili, da su upućivali molbe da se prestane sa provokacijama i slično”, navodi se u saopštenju tužilaštva.

Shodno tome, tužilaštvo je našlo da ne postoje osnovi sumnje da je bilo koje lice izvršilo krivično delo ugrožavanje sigurnosti ili nasilničko ponašanje, niti bilo koje drugo krivično delo za koje se gonjenje preduzima po službenoj dužnosti, te su krivične prijave novinara odbačene.

Iz tužilaštva dodaju da, “kako je na osnovu svih izvedenih dokaza tužilaštvo utvrdilo da se u konkretnom slučaju eventualno radi o prekršaju iz oblasti javnog reda i mira, Ministarstvu unutrašnjih poslova je naloženo da se protiv učesnika skupa podnesu prekršajne prijave Prekršajnom sudu u Beogradu, a zbog prekršaja predviđenih Zakonom o javnom redu i miru”.

Ispred Skupštine Srbije 31. maja napadnuta je novinarka Danas-a Lidija Valtner, saradnik agencije Tanjug, novinarka Radija Beograd, kao i novinari Insajdera i Vajsa, i učesnik protesta “Protiv diktature”.

Kako piše list “Danas”, četiri meseca se čekalo na podatke iz MUP-a, jer napadi na novinare Insajdera i Vajsa nisu snimljeni.

Predstavnici vlasti su govorili da su za napade odgovorni “provokatori”, a po istraživanju KRIK-a, jedan od redara SNS-a koji je maltretirao i udaljavao građane i novinare sa protesta je Borko Aranitović, blizak grupi ljudi oko ubijenog vođe navijača Aleksandra Stankovića, zvanog “Sale Mutavi”.

There shouldn’t be any pressures on people on strike

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PODGORICA, 17.11.1017 – After several unsuccessful attempts to establish a mechanism for regular payment of earnings in Pljevlja Radio Television and a warning strike which did not lead to any changes, colleagues from that media are forced to go on strike. Trade Union of Media of Montenegro (SMCG) expresses its solidarity with them and provides its full support to their efforts to draw attention of local authorities in this radical manner. Attitude of Pljevlja municipality toward the local public broadcaster is something that led to this situation in which employees are owed five salaries and moreover there are no chances that they will be paid.

The strike will be conducted in accordance with the Law on Strike, and the minimum work process will be organized in accordance with the Rulebook developed by the local broadcaster’s Council. Colleagues on strike can not be sanctioned for that in any way, and SMCG warns all those who intend to threaten them and to make any pressure, not to do so since they will bear responsibility for that.

We remind that from the municipal budget money lacks only for RTV Pljevlja, and that salaries for all other employees are regularly paid. It is time to end that practice.

The municipality does not want consider as important RTV Pljevlja or its strike, but the minimal process of work, which will start as of tonight, will open their eyes.

SMCG, along with our members from RTV Pljevlja, attempted to solve the problem in a quiet manner and through dialogue therefore, on October 30^th we requested a meeting with the president of the municipality. We never received respond to the request.

Incentivising media rights and plurality by supporting good practices in Western Balkans and Turkey

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BRUSSELS, 14.11.2017. – “How to improve the precarious state of journalism in South East Europe and Turkey” was the topic of a press conference held by the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) on 14^th November 2017 at the Press Club Brussels. The press conference took place in the framework of the EFJ project, Building Trust in Media in South East Europe and Turkey – a project supported financially by UNESCO and the European Union.

Andris Kesteris, principal advisor at DG for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations (NEAR) at the European Commission and Tarja Turtia, UNESCO Programme Specialist, attended the event to hear representatives of trade unions and professional associations from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey, speak about the conditions faced by journalists and media workers. The discussion was moderated by Aidan White, director of the Ethical Journalism Network, who opened the event by addressing the brutal realities faced by journalists in South East Europe and Turkey.

The testimonies began with Vlado Apostolov from SSNM (Macedonia), who argued that journalists cannot do their jobs to a high standard if they are not economically free. “In Macedonia, journalists earn under 200 euros per month, often paid late, and unions are taboo”, he added. Low wages and delayed payments were problems identified by representatives from all countries.

Conditions are similar in Serbia, Maja Vasic-Nikolic (NUNS) reported, where the biggest problem is self-censorship as editors are influenced by media owners. Dejan Gligorijevic (SINOS) explained that public service broadcasters (PSB) are one of the few media organisations who have collective agreements in Serbia and underlined the total absence of social dialogue in the private sector.

The lack of collective agreements were highlighted as a general problem for media workers in the whole region. “Labour rights are weak; for example, there is a lack of labour laws at the state level in Bosnia and Herzegovina”, Rea Adilagic (BHN) stated. Labour inspectors do not investigate media employers, reported Marijana Camovic (SMCG) from Montenegro and Shkelqim Hysenaj (AGK) from Kosovo. Mr Hysenaj also acknowledged problems of safety, as “there have been 24 cases of physical attacks of journalists in Kosovo this year”, according to his association.

In Turkey, over 150 journalists are imprisoned and the “free” journalists face precarious working conditions with more than 10,000 journalists being unemployed, Mustafa Kuleli (TGS) explained. Here, “only 5% of journalists are unionised, as being in a union is risky”, he added. Mr Kuleli referred to three major challenges (political, economical, technological) affecting the future of journalists and the media industry.

Without support for increased labour rights and protections for freedom of expression, trust in media cannot be increased, argued Erisa Zykaj (APJA) from Albania.

So, what can be done to help? Rainer Reichert (DJV), co-chair of the EFJ Labour Rights Expert Group (LAREG) emphasised the need to exchange best practices between Western and South East Europe. Mr Reichert also suggested the need to make the situations known to the EU. It was acknowledged by representatives that pressure from the EU could help, as candidate countries would not get EU status without addressing media restrictions.

Moderator Aidan White (EJN) also addressed the need to tackle the public service broadcasting. Mr White suggested incentivising media rights and plurality by supporting good practices, and suggested a regional-wide campaign about the value of independent journalism.

The national reports from these 7 countries were also shared at the LAREG+ meeting. A variety of possible solutions to the poor working conditions faced by journalists were discussed, including transnational agreements for media companies and an expert networking group, as well as a database so that unions can see the strategies of unions in other countries.

The next actions planned by the EFJ in the #TrustinMediaSEEproject include a social media campaign to raise awareness about the precarious working conditions for journalists in the region, as well as a photo exhibition and two events in the region in the coming year 2018.

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