BELGRADE BELGRADE, Nov 30 (Hina) - Directors of most news agencies, some papers and a large number of electronic media from the region gathered on Friday in Belgrade for a two-day meeting called "A New Age for the Media in South-East
Europe - Political, Economic and Other Preconditions". The meeting, organised by the Belgrade news agency Beta, was opened by agency director Ljubica Markovic. The gathering was welcomed by the representatives of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Belgrade and the French Embassy in Yugoslavia, which helped organise the event. Markovic said media equality had still not been established in Serbia and that the two-day meeting should address the experience of the media from the region regarding issues such as the relationship between politicians and the media, media ownership, operation in market conditions, and the professional code. Participants in a debate were add
BELGRADE, Nov 30 (Hina) - Directors of most news agencies, some
papers and a large number of electronic media from the region
gathered on Friday in Belgrade for a two-day meeting called "A New
Age for the Media in South-East Europe - Political, Economic and
Other Preconditions".
The meeting, organised by the Belgrade news agency Beta, was opened
by agency director Ljubica Markovic. The gathering was welcomed by
the representatives of the Organisation for Security and
Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Belgrade and the French Embassy in
Yugoslavia, which helped organise the event.
Markovic said media equality had still not been established in
Serbia and that the two-day meeting should address the experience
of the media from the region regarding issues such as the
relationship between politicians and the media, media ownership,
operation in market conditions, and the professional code.
Participants in a debate were addressed by Hina director Mirko
Bolfek, who acquainted them with the new law on Hina and its
implementation, aimed at transforming Hina from a state-owned
agency into a public institution.
Croatian Journalists' Association president Dragutin Lucic spoke
about media ownership as regulated by Croatia's amended law on
information and a law which would bind media companies to declare
its property every year.
Attending the meeting are also directors or editors-in-chief of
news agencies and TV and radio stations from Bosnia-Herzegovina,
Albania, Macedonia, as well as media experts from Slovenia and
Germany, and representatives of the Vienna-based South-East
European Media Organisation (SEEMO). Also participating are the
editors-in-chief of the Yugoslav FoNet and Tanjug news agencies,
Radio-Television Serbia, the Independent Journalists'
Association of Serbia, and the Belgrade Institute of Social
Sciences.
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