Professional standards

Dusko Bogdanovic writes in the newspaper Danas: "Ljubica Gojgic, Natasa Odalovic and Jugoslav Cosic (B92) have maintained a consistently high quality of their television interviews and programmes, despite occasional variations in their professional performance. Just like in tango, it takes two to create engaging, educational and interesting interviews. The aforementioned three authors are still holding top positions with regard to their quality, which is simply unreachable for their competitors (RTS)".
(Danas, 17.02.2012)

Awards, training courses and competitions

Juzne Vestiand Media Center Nis have announced a public contest for participation in the school of agency, web, photo and video journalism. During a three-month training, candidates will have a chance to learn how to write content for news agencies and online publishing, as well as how to make photographs and record and edit video content.
(Juzne vesti, 20.02.2012)

The Ministry of Health will organize an educational course for journalists reporting on HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. The project is financed by the Global Fund in cooperation with the Public Health Institute.
(Vecernje Novosti - Srbija, 25.02.2012)

In cooperation with USAID and IREX, ABC Serbia will organize a series of regional seminars under the title "Serbia Online Advertising Tour". Taking into account the fact that the internet constitutes the fastest-growing advertising media, the main aim of these seminars is to contribute to development of the digital advertising market by offering high-quality education to all relevant stakeholders. Applications can be submitted here: http://bizdialog.wufoo.com/forms/serbia-online-advertising-tour
(ABC Newsletter, 21. 02. 2012)

The Journalists' Association of Serbia (UNS) is enrolling a new generation of students of the school of online journalism WebNovinar. The school has a mission to achieve professional advancement of journalists, students of journalism, PR and marketing professionals and others who are interested in working in the field of the new media. Additional information is available here: dragana.bjelica@uns.rs, telephone numbers 011 32 36 337, 062 530 337.
(UNS, 23.02.2012)

Media Center offers a training course to organizations, companies and the media, aimed at improving the quality of photographs published on web platforms and the print media. The training course will take place on Tuesday, 6 March 2012.
(MC, 26.02.2012)

Media Center Belgrade will organize on 14 March 2012 a seminar for journalists entitled "Reporting on the Roma Population". The seminar is a part of the project "PR Workshops for Roma Non-Governmental Organizations" which is financed by the Fund for an Open Society and the Open Society Foundations. All interested journalists are welcome to apply as of 13 March via email milic@mc.rs
(MC, 29.02.2012)

Media visits

At the beginning of the business year, the Media Associations was visited by Branko Radujko, the general director of Telecom Serbia a.d., Vladimir Lucic, the director of the Department for Commercial Affairs of Telecom Serbia, and Milica Markovic, the director of the PR Department.
(ASMEDI Newsletter, februar 2012)

The media audience

After more than a year, IFABC has completed a global research of the circulation of the print media. ABC Serbia is the first in the region to bring this results. Here is the overview of circulation of audited daily newspapers in Serbia.

Anniversaries

For the first time, media employees in Pozarevac have celebrated their day. February 12 will be celebrated as the Day of Media Employees in Pozarevac. The first president of the Journalists' Association of Serbia, Laza Kostic, was born on this day.
(Danas - Branicevo, 17.02.2012)

On the occasion of the Journalists' Day, Mladen Bulut, the president of the Journalists' Association of Vojvodina, presented the award for most successful journalistic achievements in the last year. The Jasa Tomic Award was given to Aleksandar Veljic for his contribution to historical truth about the genocide committed by Hungarian fascists in Southern Backa during the Second World War, while the Petar Drezgic Award was given to the journalist of TV Panonija, Jovan Stefanovic, for a series of reports on agriculture. The Svetozar Miletic Life Achievement Award was given to Slobodan Jakovljevic, the editor of Dnevnik.
(Pravda - Srbija, Dnevnik, 24.02.2012)

In Memoriam

Journalist Radoljub Stojkovic passed away in Leskovac at the age of 71. Although disabled, he spent his entire career in Radio Leskovac, where he worked as a journalist and long-time editor of numerous news and other programmes.
(UNS, 20 February 2012)

Journalist and writer Scepan Vukovic passed away suddenly in Podgorica. Between 1984 and 2002 he worked for Pobjeda. He was the editor-in-chief and long-time columnist of the newspaper. During the recent years, he had worked as a contributor to magazines Biznis and Ekonometar.
(UNS, 20. 02.2012)

Journalist Natalija Djuric passed away at the age of 86. She began working in the field of journalism in 1947 in Radio Belgrade and the newspaper 20 Oktobar. She spent most of her professional career in Borba, where she worked in the city, economy and internal affairs sections.
(UNS, 29. 02. 2012)