Full Coverage: Media

29.05.2006 A regional network of free-lance journalists of Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav republics was established in Belgrade, at the regional meeting organized by the International Federation of Journalists IFJ and the Independent Association of Journalists of Serbia (NUNS).

29.05.2006 The OSCE Mission to Serbia and Montenegro is alarmed by recent activities of the Republican Broadcasting Agency (RBA) Council. While the OSCE acknowledges the fact that an independent regulatory body should be entrusted with the authority to allocate broadcasting licences, it calls on the Council to respect national law and international standards, as well as decisions of judicial bodies such as the Supreme Court.

25.05.2006 The media campaign for the Montenegro Referendum was conducted correctly, but in the field work of the activists a number of inadequate actions were registered that could qualify as pressure on the voters, states the CEMI Centre for Monitoring in its Final Report on the Monitoring of Referendum Process. The Report provides a global evaluation of the overall referendum campaign, the work of the referendum bodies, as well as the conduct of the actual ballot day and the atmosphere after the results were announced.

24.05.2006 The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists from South East Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), is outraged by a prison sentence handed to a journalist in Kumanovo, Republic of Macedonia – FYROM. SEEMO sent a strong public letter condemning the sentence to the highest offices of power in the Republic of Macedonia.

19.05.2006 The Montenegrin media covered the issues and developments surrounding the referendum and the future state and legal status of Montenegro correctly and professionally, shows the monitoring of media coverage implemented by the Association of Young Journalists (AYJ).

17.05.2006 The Youth Initiative for Human Rights filed a lawsuit against the Kurir daily newspaper, on charges of hate-speech used in the article "Pristina Football Fans Carry a Banner 'Serbia Like Nokia, Ever Smaller and Smaller'".

17.05.2006 Last week, "Vecernji list" daily published an article on the recently arrested suspects of several armed robberies and brutal murders, which gives an interesting view of the motives of their brutality. The suspects are, namely, all HIV positive, a fact which, according to the daily, makes them insensitive to humanity and the value of human life, because of their iminent death. Such a comment provoked strong reaction from the Croatian Association for HIV (CAHIV).

16.05.2006 I agree with the reasons that we have gone to Iraq. I may not agree with some actions that people choose while they are supposed to be over there protecting and serving our people and now the civilian Iraqis, but I am behind helping them and protecting us from terrorists...

08.05.2006 The B.a.B.e. Group for Women Human Rights invites you to presentation of the results of the EQVIWA – Regional Action for Equal Visibility media project “Women and Media”, that will take place on Friday, May 12, 2006, in Sarajevo (the Centre for Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies of the University of Sarajevo, Zmaja od Bosne 8 – the blue building), at 11:00 hours.

08.05.2006 The European Union, through the European Agency for Reconstruction, secured a new packaged of financial assistance dedicated to professional development of media in Serbia. Under the Media Fund Programme, the EU earmarked 2.8 million EUR in finances for projects that promote investigative journalism, contribute to increased quality of media contents and projects designed to improve media education.

03.05.2006 WASHINGTON, D.C., May 3 (OneWorld) - Though it faces daily intimidation and what some are calling 'confusion' over professional standards, Iraq's burgeoning media has already begun to shape opinions on the street, said a group of senior Iraqi journalists on tour in the United States.

03.05.2006 The Association of Professional Journalists of Kosova (AGPK) has called on all journalists and photo-journalists to take part in today’s protest which will be organized on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day.

03.05.2006 Introduction by Lawrence Lessig to a discussion with Jeff Tweedy and Steven Johnson, on the topic of Creative Commons, held at the New York Public Library, on April 7, 2005.