CROATIAN JOURNALISTS' SOCIETY HOLDS ASSEMBLY

ZAGREB, Nov 11 (Hina) - Croatian Journalists' Society (HND) held assembly in Zagreb on Saturday when it accepted changes of the HND Statute and discussed a programme for its work. In an introductory speech, the HND head, Jagoda Vukusic, spoke of the status of journalists' profession. Vukusic reminded the assembled members that several laws on journalists' work had been passed last year. She stressed that it should not be important for criteria of this profession who owned the print or electronic media. Both a legislation framework and self-regulating mechanisms were important for the status of journalists, she said. The assembly accepted rules for journalists' prizes. A text of guidelines for covering forthcoming elections by Croatian dailies and the Croatian Television (HTV) was distributed to the assembly's participants. Vukusic said that the guidelines should be accepted as incentives to thinking over the issue and as proposals of Croatian journalists to Croatian journalists in the run-up to elections. (hina) mš 111825 MET jan 97