Awards and contests

Traditional journalistic awards of the Danas daily newspaper have been presented to: Dragoljub Petrovic (Stasa Marinkovic Award) and Mirjana N. Stevanovic (Nikola Burzan Award).
(Danas, 10.06.2011, ASMEDI Newsletter, 154, June 2011)

Brand Fair 7has awarded the Blic daily a special recognition entitled "The Power of the Brand – A Good News", while the RTS was awarded for the tradition of the modern, the RTV Pink for absolute leadership in entertainment, and Studio B for its family programme.
(Blic, 11.06.2011, ASMEDI Newsletter, 154, June 2011)

This year's winner of the Award for Journalistic Courage "Milan Pantic" is the correspondent of Vecernje Novosti from Sabac, Aleksandra Delic, for the series of articles on abuses and criminal groups from Sabac and Loznica.
(Vecernje Novosti, 12.06.2011, ASMEDI Newsletter, 154, June 2011)

The editor-in-chief of NIN, Nebojsa Spaic, has appointed Vladislava Gordic Petkovic and Mica Vujicic as new members of the jury for NIN Critics' Award for the best novel of the year.
(Danas, 10.06.2011)

The award "Zora", presented by the Journalists' Association of Serbia (UNS) for special achievements in TV journalism at the 17th Festival of Local TV Stations "Zlatni Prosjak" ("The Golden Beggar") in Kosice in Slovakia, was awarded to Jiri Steiskal, director of the film "Pit-Hole".
(ASMEDI Newsletter, 154, June 2011)

The winner of the contest for the best work dedicated to the subject of "Windows, the first step towards energy efficiency" - organized by the Central European Development Forum (CEDEF), the Agency for Energy Efficiency of the Republic of Serbia and the REHAU company – is the journalist from Politika daily newspaper, Senka Lucic. The award includes study travel to Vienna. Seven journalists have won recognitions: Zeljko Stankovic from the e-magazine Ekologija, Zoran Panic and Igor Jovanovic from BETA news agency, Zorica Lesovic Stanojevic from Cacanski Glas, Mladen Vuksanovic from Zelene Vesti, Dragan Kolarov from the Green Magazine and Aleksandra Bozović from the RTS.
(NUNS, 22.06.2011)

Education and training

Within the project funded by the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the Government of the Kingdom of Norway, a training course on reporting about sexual and gender-based violence for journalists from the Western Serbia will be held on June 16-17 in Nova Varos. The seminar will also introduce the "Manual for Media Reporting on Domestic Violence and Violence Against Women" authored by Jelena Aleksic and Jelena Djordjevic.
(Blic – Serbia, 09.06.2011)

The Independent Journalists' Association of Vojvodina (NDNV) has invited journalists from Serbian media outlets to apply for a free seminar "The Media and Decentralization" that will be held on June 24-26, 2011 in Palic.
(NDNV, MC, 13.06.2011)

The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN), with assistance from the Open Society Institute from London and the OSCE Mission in Serbia, organizes a school of investigative journalism that will be held in Opatija between August 21 and August 28, 2011. A full scholarship has been provided for 20 journalists from the Balkans. Additional information: www.balkaninsight.com/en/birn-summer-school/birn-summer-school-home-page.
(NUNS, 20.06.2011)

The Media in Conflict Seminar (MICS) is an academic and professional journalistic 5-day seminar held in Israel. The organizer pays the accommodation in Israel in full (not including air transportation). The deadline for application is July 1, 2011. Additional information: www.mics.org.il/184388/registration
(NUNS, 20.06.2011)

SEEMO invites media outlets to send their correspondents and to report from The II South, Central and East Europe Investigative Journalism Days: Focus on Corruption, that will be held in Sava Center in Belgrade on June 27-29. Contact person: Kristina Stevancevic, SEEMO, www.seemo.org, tel: 063/ 8945-111; e-mail: kristina@seemo.org
(SEEMO, 20.06.2011)

Media visits

The president of the European Newspaper Publishers' Association, Ivar Rusdal, and the executive director of ENPA, Francine Cunningham, will visit the Media Association in Belgrade on June 28-30.
(ASMEDI Newsletter, 154, June 2011)

The media audience

The Adria Media Serbia company announced that its magazine, Sensa, has increased the number of its readers. The May issue of the magazine had 89,111 readers, which is the largest number of readers since its first issue in March 2008.
(ASMEDI Newsletter, 154, June 2011)

Apology of the Managing Board of Radio-Television Serbia

A part of the public still perceives the Radio-Television Serbia as the RTS from the nineties of the last century. We had to apologize to citizens for our reporting during these years so that the public would be certain that the newly-elected Managing Board sincerely wishes that such things never happen again, says the president of the Managing Board of RTS, Slobodan Markovic.
(Danas, 09.06.2011)

Media transfers

Former minister of finance, Diana Dragutinovic, was appointed as the new editor-in-chief of the business magazine "Kvartalni Monitor" ("Quarterly Monitor") published by the Foundation for the Advancement of Economics (FREN).
(Alo!, 15.06.2011)

Members of the City Assembly have confirmed the decision of the Managing Board of Radio Subotica to appoint a politicologist, Toni Bedalov, as the director of the radio station. The final decision had been delayed for a month to investigate possible conflict of interest, since Bedalov was the owner of a private advertising agency. Members of the City Assembly from the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians (SVM) were opposed to the decision because they considered the appointment contrary to the legally prescribed procedure.
(Danas, NUNS, 21.06.2011)

Documentary series "The Different Others" ("Drugi drugaciji")

On June 18, 2011 in Belgrade, a panel discussion marked the completion of Media Center's project "Religious Tolerance – Important Step Towards the EU". Media Center Belgrade implemented the project with support from the EU Media Fund, while it was co-financed by the Ministry of Culture, Informing and Information Society. The crucial part of the project consists of four documentary films entitled "The Different Others" ("Drugi drugaciji"). The films are available on the web site of the Media Center. The documentary films served as an introduction and a basis for debates organized in nine Serbian cities: Beograd, Subotica, Novi Sad, Sabac, Kragujevac, Nis, Bujanovac, Novi Pazar and Zajecar.
(Media Center, 18 June 2011)

Anniversaries

Danasdaily newspaper celebrates 14 years of existence on June 9, 2011.
(Danas, 09.06.2011)

The regional RTV Krusevac has celebrated two decades of operations in the Rasinski District and Pomoravlje. The station is the first local television in Serbia that was formed outside the system of the national broadcaster, RTS.
(Vecernje Novosti, Pravda, NUNS, 21.06.2011)

The Serbian edition of the pan-European sport channel, Eurosport, celebrates its fifth birthday.
(Politika, 18.06.2011)

In Memoriam

Journalist of the Politika daily, Dragan Vlahovic, born in 1950, has passed away after a long and serious illness. He has spent the three decades of his career in Politika. He worked in magazines Intervju, DEM, Srpsko Nasledje and Glas Javnosti, and on TV Politika.
(Beta, Press, Politika,16.06.201)

The former president of the Journalists' Association of Serbia (UNS), Svetozar Sveta Tadic, has passed away. He participated in the war of liberation (1944-1945) and began working in journalism in 1950. Between 1969 and 1971 he was the vice president of the Association of Journalists of Yugoslavia. In the period 1972-1974 he served as the president of the UNS, while during 1987-1989 he was the president of the Council of Veteran Journalists of UNS. He has won several domestic and international awards.
(UNS, 21. June 2011 Politika, Vecernje Novosti, 22.06.2011)

Other news

Due to the storm that hit Svrljig during the last week, the signal from TV Pink and TV Prva was interrupted, although the same transmitter broadcasts the programme of six other TV stations whose airing has not been interrupted.
(Juzne vesti, 20.06.2011)

Issue No. 6
June 9–23, 2011

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