Media-related news

Reporters in need of a quick, reliable source can turn to an online search engine of experts. Global Experts, a free resource connecting journalists to a database of vetted, knowledgeable sources, has attracted big-name users like Al Jazeera, the BBC and CNN. Created by the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations in 2008, the site recently launched several new features.
(IJNet, 30.04.2012)

Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) Serbia published a database of candidates for deputies in the National Parliament of the Republic of Serbia. The data about the lists were taken from the Republic Election Committee and for the first time collected in a database that can be searched using various criteria. The database of candidates for deputies is available here.
(MC, 08.05.2012)

While the recession has been the main topic of the media in recent years, and while thousands of workers are losing their jobs, the company "Vecernje Novosti" has grown larger and younger. "Yesterday, our company hired 12 young employees", says the press statement issued by Novosti.
(Vecernje novosti, UNS, 08.05.2012)

Successful media companies with many different publications also offer advanced IT products in an effort to retain their competitive position in the market. New issues of magazines are being created, designed and delivered to newsstands using numerous separate and complex business processes that have to be integrated and synchronized using a unique IT system. The Color Press Grup company from Novi Sad, which is the largest publisher of magazines in the South East Europe, hired M&I Systems Co. Group to perform implementation of the MIS ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system, the BI (Business Intelligence) system, as well as the marketing web portal. The MIS ERP guarantees automation, integration and efficiency of business processes, reduction of cost, monitoring of situation and trends within the group, acquisition of information about profitability, and maintaining of competitive advantages. The Color Press Group consists of the following companies: "Color media International", "Color Print", "Color Euro Media", "Svet Media", "Hello Media", "Scandal Media", "Color Media Net", "Color Media Special", "Color Media Enigmatika", "L&Z Media".
(E-kapija, 07.05.2012)

After the success of the Blic app for Android mobile phones, the daily newspaper also launched an app for iOS devices like the iPhone, as well as the iPad and iTouch. The app allows browsing of photographs, videos, and news links on the Blic's website.
(ASMEDI NEWSLETTER, May 2012)

The Color Press Group has launched a new weekly magazine: Star tabloid is published under license from the British company Northen & Shell.
(ASMEDI NEWSLETTER, Maj 2012)

"Roads Towards Justice" ("Putevi pravde") is a new radio programme by the Balkans Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) which is a part of the two-year initiative "Transition Justice in the Balkans". The initiative is financed by the EU and the Swiss ministry of external affairs. "Roads Towards Justice" is a monthly ten-minute radio programme dedicated to the transition justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Kosovo and Serbia, which is available for broadcasting in Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, Montenegrin, Albanian and Macedonian languages every first Monday in a month. The first programme in the series became available on 30 April 2012 (soundcloud.com/birn/putevi-pravde-1/download). The first programme describes the current interethnic tensions in Macedonia, with appearances of representatives of antifascist organizations from the former Yugoslavia discussing the possible rehabilitation of Draza Mihajlovic, and investigates why B&H and Serbia have not yet signed a protocol on cooperation between prosecutor's offices. The programme "Roads Towards Justice" is produced by BIRN and sent each month to all interested radio stations in the Balkans and abroad. It is available for free download and broadcasting.
(BIRN, MC, 09.05.2012)

Digitalization

The project "Digital Voice of Serbia" was symbolically launched by the Media Center Belgrade on the World Press Freedom Day. The project monitors and analyses the public opinion on the Internet about the elections in Serbia. The team on the new media, hired by the Media Center specially for this occasion, gathers publicly available information and statements of users on social networks, blogs, forums and online media portals. Reports are published every day on the MC website and distributed via mailing list, while on the election day and during The Election Night in the Media Center the reports will be published every hour beginning at 6.00.
(MC, 03.05.2012)