WORKSHOP BEING RUN FOR JOURNALISTS IN CROATIAN DANUBE REGION

( Editorial: --> 3079 ) VUKOVAR, Nov 23 (Hina) - A workshop for local journalists in the Croatian Danube river area is taking place in Osijek and Vukovar. The European Union is the sponsor of the workshop which began in early October and will end on 15 January when the UNTAES mandate expires. This working seminar is viewed as a contribution to the Croatian national programme for the trust establishment. It has been organised by an independent news agency "AIM" (the Alternative Information Network), and conducted by journalists of the Split-based "Feral Tribune", the Osijek-based "Bumerang" weeklies and of the Osijek City Radio. The workshop is being attended by 17 young journalists of the electronic and the press media from the Croatian Danube river area who, the organisers have said, did not promote the Greater Serbian ideology during the occupation of the region by the Serb rebels. For the past years these journalists have worked in the conditions marked by a total lack of freedom of the media. The goal of the workshop is to teach them basic journalist techniques, help them to work professionally and independently and enable them to be included into the democratic media system of Croatia. Croatian well-known journalists and media experts such as Jagoda Vukusic, Stjepan Malovic, Igor Mandic, Vesna Alaburic, and Zeljko Matic will hold lectures at the workshop. (hina) mš 231221 MET nov 97