Media-related news

A new daily newspaper, Informer, was launched in Serbia today. The newspaper's founder is the Belgrade journalist Dragan J. Vucicevic. Using a 32-page tabloid form and Latin script, the newspaper offers news on politics, economy, world events, crime, music and sports. The newspaper was originally supposed to be called Insajder ("The Insider"), but TV B92 secured court protection of the brand of the same name used by its news programme for years. After the launch of Informer, Serbia has 15 daily newspapers, with two of them of regional character – Dnevnik from Novi Sad and Narodne Novine from Nis, as well as two sports newspapers – Zurnal and Sport, one specialized in economy – Privredni pregled, and one free newspaper – 24 Casa.
(Beta, NUNS, 10.05.2012)

For the first time in history, Sremski Karlovci will have its own radio station. Thanks to a project financed by the European Youth Foundation, local radio programme will be launched in Karlovci as of May 21. In the words of the coordinator of the Youth Office in Karlovac, Nemanja Tenjovic, the idea to establish an online radio in Karlovci is a result of the recommendations of the Peace Ambassadors Conference. The regional radio will be called "The Balkan Youth" and will be available on the website www.mladibalkana.fm. In the beginning, news programme will be broadcast four hours a day, between 18.00 and 22.00, while music will be broadcast 24 hours a day.
(Dnevnik, 12.05.2012)

In cooperation with the US Ambassador to Serbia, the Independent Journalists' Association of Serbia (NUNS) organized a seminar entitled "New Media, New Challenges". The seminar was dedicated to dramatic changes in traditional journalism after the explosive development of the new media, especially with regard to the role played by social networks like Facebook or Twitter. A lecture at the seminar, William Silcock, one of the pioneers of investigative journalism at a global TV network, who has received numerous awards and works as a professor at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, pointed out that in the last three years the media had been influenced by applications for mobile phones and tablets. "Today, everything is available on the web and you can access information 24 hours a day, seven days in week. The most significant thing now is to be able to tell a story, while at the same time being accurate, truthful and ethical, which are actually the fundamental principles of journalism". He also emphasized that in the age of web journalism the audience has become more active, and that readers can make personal choices, search for other sources, and tell journalists what they want. "All these choices have not turned the readers into journalists. They think that they are journalists if they can write blogs or 'spread' the story. However, they are not journalists 'because they are not trained to be principled, ethical and to separate truth from fiction".
(NUNS, 23.05.2012)

Digitalization

Radio-Television Belami is the only regional television that broadcasts a digital TV signal, after receiving a necessary approval from the Council of the Republic Broadcasting Agency (RRA).
(Pravda, NUNS, UNS, 22.05.2012)