OPATIJA, Oct 29 (Hina) - Dragutin Lucic, Hina's reporter and editor, was Friday elected new president of the Croatian Journalists' Society (HND) among three candidates at the HND 39th electoral assembly. The other two candidates are
with Zagreb's daily "Vecernji list" and Rijeka's daily "Novi list". Elected were also members of the new executive and supervisory committees of the HND, the Council of Ethics and the Administrative Committee of the Solidarity Fund. The former HND president Jagoda Vukusic in reporting on her four-year mandate, said the HND had worked to restore self-awareness to the journalist profession and its consolidation as a social power which will, on behalf of the public, control the functioning of the legislature, judiciary and the executive authority. We aimed at full freedom of the public word and complete responsibility for everything said in public and published, Vukusic said. As succes
OPATIJA, Oct 29 (Hina) - Dragutin Lucic, Hina's reporter and
editor, was Friday elected new president of the Croatian
Journalists' Society (HND) among three candidates at the HND 39th
electoral assembly.
The other two candidates are with Zagreb's daily "Vecernji list"
and Rijeka's daily "Novi list".
Elected were also members of the new executive and supervisory
committees of the HND, the Council of Ethics and the Administrative
Committee of the Solidarity Fund.
The former HND president Jagoda Vukusic in reporting on her four-
year mandate, said the HND had worked to restore self-awareness to
the journalist profession and its consolidation as a social power
which will, on behalf of the public, control the functioning of the
legislature, judiciary and the executive authority.
We aimed at full freedom of the public word and complete
responsibility for everything said in public and published,
Vukusic said.
As successes of the HND she underlined the establishment and good
work of the Opatija-based International Centre for the Training of
Journalists, as well as the work on the establishment of a Press
Centre in Zagreb.
The Croatian Journalists' Society will forward a protest from the
Assembly to the Croatian Government because of the way members of
the Croatian Radio and Television Council were elected.
At the enticement of the Courtroom Reporters' Corps, the HND will
forward a protest to the Justice Ministry because the Ministry
requires requests for special accreditation in order for reporters
to cover the work of the Ministry.
The Days of Croatian Journalism, which began in Opatija with the HND
session will continue on Saturday with the annual assembly of the
Croatian Reporters' union and an award ceremony for 1998.
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