PODGORICA, 12.03.2018. – A team of journalists from five Western Balkan countries within the project “Invisible Violence: Stories from the Newsroom” prepares a quantitative analysis about the pressures their colleagues face with in newsrooms or during a process of data gathering and reporting.
Their goal is to encourage journalists to talk about daily pressures on their reporting of editors and management structures, in favor of different stakeholders. It is expected that the project “Invisible Violence: Stories from the Newsroom” will raise awareness about the conditions in which journalists from this region work.
The intention of the Center for Social Innovation (Serbia), which is also the project leader, and the partner organizations Kontra (Serbia), Nova TV (Macedonia), Center for Democratic Transition (Montenegro), and journalists Una Hajdari (Kosovo) and Nidžara Ahmetašević (Bosnia and Herzegovina) is to enable and assist journalists who have been exposed to pressures during their work to share these experiences.
This project is funded by the European Union through the small grants programme “Protecting Media Freedom and Freedom of Expression in the Western Balkans” implemented by the Croatian Journalists’ Association as part of the regional project Western Balkan’s Regional Platform for Advocating Media Freedom and Journalists’ Safety. Member of the Regional Platform is Trade Union of Media of Montenegro (SMCG).
Through a public event and journalist articles, this team will assist journalists and encourage them to recognize different types of pressures and teach them how to deal with them. Final documents, with findings and conclusions about pressures on journalists and their reporting, will be one of the key results of this project, and all information and project articles will be published in Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
This article has been published as part of the “Real Voice of Journalism’’ project. The project is funded by the European Union through the small grants programme “Protecting Media Freedom and Freedom of Expression in the Western Balkans” implemented by the Croatian Journalists’ Association as part of the regional project “Western Balkan’s Regional Platform for Advocating Media Freedom and Journalists’ Safety”, which is carried out through the partnership of six regional journalists’ associations – Independent Journalists’ Association of Serbia (IJAS), Association of BH Journalists (BHJ), Croatian Journalists’ Association (CJA), Association of Journalists of Kosovo (AJK), Association of Journalists of Macedonia (AJM), and Trade Union of Media of Montenegro (TUMM).